Yeah, for like a page, that makes sense. But for conversion of PDFs of books and documents into an audiobook, a DVM should be used as that is significant compute. Also, if a DVM is used, when the audio is converted once, the compute doesn't have to be redone unless someone wants it in a different dialect. The interface for webpages is also better with a DVM because if you do it as a webextension or something like highlighter I think then if you visit a webpage and it has already been turned into audio, you can then not have to redo the compute. If this is possible to do locally, then whats more important is getting dvms running on phones like citrine is a local relay.
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Sherpa runs in real time, so it would be at most a couple hours for a book, should be fine in the background of a powerful phone.
OK. Used Sherpa for the first time today... These are just features you can add to libera FD, right?
After trying to see how it performs on a 1000 page book, I'm back to thinking this would be better as an application on your start 9. Still thinking it's better as a DVM (if you run your own its still private). You could have a chaim of dvms that you run, 1 to convert PDFs and such to eBook or whatever format you want,
1 to convert it to audio in whatever dialect you want. Maybe 1 for translation and another for adding the chapters.
Otherwise you can just build your standard bookmarking or note taking app like Obsidian I think?
Idk, I see the use case, but it's in general is for hands free stuff so it'd be really weird to want to use it on anything shorter than 2 pages?
By the way, nostr:nprofile1qqsd4dkxqewy8xum47ctpu0ltgxxsfemeewpjkdyzk9ddfcg286s0dsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvduhq6r9wfc82mnt9e6x7erp0yhs4deh46 build this remote TTS service, not a DVM though...
nostr:nprofile1qqsd4dkxqewy8xum47ctpu0ltgxxsfemeewpjkdyzk9ddfcg286s0dsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvduhq6r9wfc82mnt9e6x7erp0yhs4deh46 is the code for this on github? Nostr login would be cool
Not yet.
As for Nostr login - it would be cool, but there's no value there - you can just ask browser to generate a random username and password. There's no e-mail or anything. I don't even need to know your identity.
Then why have a login?
Because the feed is personal to you, you don't want to listen to someone else's articles. You just add it as a private RSS feed to any podcast app and listen to your articles and keep track.
The app generates RSS feed, your podcasting app can be the used to queue, remember position, etc.
Just try it, just make up a username and password and you're good to go.
You mean this app?
Yeah, it seems to work pretty good, and has some of the features you're discussing, including the playlist.
Agree that some compute needs to be done server side, the advantage of doing it locally is privacy. Maybe you don't want to advertise which books/articles you're reading, or doing it 100% offline.
And while some DVMs may offer past computations for free I would not take it for granted.