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You can just upload a mp3 / wav / ogg and nostr:nprofile1qqszaqx80w9eg8uf39l527h8znumq0jcxdav2h0kdgwy08e3p87wfrgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcke6zfw will automatically turn it into a podcast.

I was planning to do the audio book a bit later, this isn't the final version yet, would be happy to hear yours tho!

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Diyana 5d ago

Hah, thanks for the tip. But I am not sure I am seeing how to upload on castr.me. is it in an app form I should first download? The web version just asked for my npub.

Gosh, haha, now I am feeling pretty self conscious... My recording is raw and unpolished of a text I am reading for the first time but will share.

It depends on when you are recording it I will either wait for your audio or just keep reading. If I am not listening to information often reading it outloud strengthens my comprehension. That obviously requires more energy and time on my end since I need to be stationery vs. driving, walking and getting other stuff done. :)

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Max 5d ago

It just fetches any profile and displays all the uploaded audio or video files as a podcast feed.

So just post on primal or whatever client and it'll automagically work.

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Max 5d ago

Yeah, doing "actually good" audio book recordings is a pain in the ass... So no pressure!

I'll probably get to a point where I'll do it in half a year.

Idk, maybe earlier if enough people bug me about it.

Oh, I also made a text to speech friendly PDF that might work for you, get it at towardsliberty.com/pop

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Diyana 5d ago

OMG 🤣 def not gonna wanna wait half a year...

Would love to try the text to speech but I don't know how to make that work. You are the grapheneos expert... It seems that much of what's available on Android is not automatically on graphene. Like I can't even speech to text text messages. (I get voice input is unavailable right now when I try) And I don't see any functions in the text to speech pdf file of yours.

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Max 5d ago

On zapstore you can get Sherpa, that's a text to speech engine, and voca, that's a reader app that uses the engine. Voca is very early development so its not yet great. There is @voice app too, but that's closed source and you need to install Aurora Store to get it.

https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqvx7un89emk76r9d3kx2u3k8yh8garnv4hxw6twv5pzq7xwd748yfjrsu5yuerm56fcn9tntmyv04w95etn0e23xrczvvraqvzqqqr7pvehy4fu

https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqxxxmmd9emx7cmp9eshquqzyr6u4xd2v3lunpr6mdsmdmfqpkd3tyyn5kuhymzwfc4en0ul6v3c7qcyqqq8uzcvhdyuk

The TTS PDF is just a regular PDF but without page numbers and page titles so it makes listening better.

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Diyana 4d ago

Thanks for sharing these. I downloaded both on the zapstore but I don't seem to be able to locate Voca. Or is it integrated into Sherpa once downloaded? How do I utilize them to have your tts read?

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Max 4d ago

In Sherpa you can download en_GB-alba-medium that's a decent quality and fast model.

Not sure why you don't see voca in zapstore, you can get it here directly.

https://git.nostrdev.com/voca/voca/releases/tag/v0.2.0

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Diyana 4d ago

Thank you. I had found it in zapstore but when I downloaded it (I did twice) I could not find it amongst my apps in my phone. But this worked. This would be a dream if this works. I have been dreaming of tts for so long. But now that I have loaded your book nothing happens when I press play. Is that what you meant by is not great yet?

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Max 4d ago

Do you have Sherpa installed and configured as TTS engine in the OS?

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Diyana 4d ago

😭😭😭

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Diyana 4d ago

I also just installed aurora store. Which of the voice apps do you recommend? Is it Voice Access from Google LLC?

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Max 4d ago

"@Voice" is the name of the app, it works with SherpaTTS engine.