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I will give it a try. I've been listening to the same podcast episode for…",{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"29429080","I find the stories toe the line of \"just enough sense\" to keep it interesting. Episode 2 is the one I liked the most so far, I was reading the text with lots of interest!",{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"29432605","mekkie","I actually think the voice is pretty good for sleeping, feels very droney. but the nonsensicalness of the stories made it harder to sleep because my brain was trying to figure…",{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"GPT-3 has a free tier; about three cents per episode","maker",[71],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"29434095","There is, plus it costs like three cents to make an episode.",{"value":75,"source":69,"evidence":76},"Made it in a spare evening to play with GPT-3",[77,79],{"id":78},"post",{"id":80,"by":11,"text":81},"29429183","I didn't much love hosting on Anchor\u002FSpotify, but I made this in half an hour and I didn't want to have to get into RSS\u002Fsite generation. Do you know of an easy way to dump audio…",{"value":83,"source":69,"evidence":84},"About 45 minutes for the first episode plus an hour of audio-mixing script",[85],{"id":86,"by":11,"text":87},"29429718","Well, it might have taken 45'. It's all auto-generated, it was really quick. I wrote a script later to automate the audio mixing, that took another hour. Now I can generate a…",[89,98,102,108],{"value":90,"source":69,"evidence":91},"GPT-3",[92,95],{"id":93,"by":11,"text":94},"29429066","It is kind of hard to sleep to, I agree. This is a deepfake voice, ie it's generated by Google's WaveNet, which afaik is a deep learning thing. Unfortunately they didn't have a…",{"id":96,"by":11,"text":97},"29430474","Neither, it's a 30-line script I wrote yesterday. 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I should have vetted it more while generating.",{"value":163,"source":54,"evidence":164},"Stories are too engaging to fall asleep to",[165,166],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},[168,178,189],{"value":169,"source":54,"evidence":170},"Longer episodes",[171,175],{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"29437464","elil17","In addition to others comments, these need to be much longer to be effective. 5 to 10 minutes is not long enough to really bore me Great idea though!",{"id":176,"by":11,"text":177},"29437471","Yeah, unfortunately the model starts wanting to end the story after 5 minutes :\u002F",{"value":179,"source":54,"evidence":180},"Better or whispered voices",[181,185],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"29429100","doctorhandshake","AWS’s Polly can whisper.",{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"29429381","mansoor_","Soothing voice....?",{"value":190,"source":54,"evidence":191},"Write-up or tutorial",[192,196],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"29433160","starik36","I would love to see a write-up or a tutorial how you made this.",{"id":197,"by":126,"text":198},"29430097","I think most people here would be interested in a write-up.",[200],{"value":201,"source":54,"evidence":202},"Can it be done in other languages such as Chinese",[203],{"id":204,"by":205,"text":206},"29430098","geokon","Would be interested to have something like this in Chinese - to have playing in the background (for language learning and more language \"exposure\")",[208,215,221],{"value":209,"source":54,"evidence":210},"Boring Books for Bedtime podcast",[211],{"id":212,"by":213,"text":214},"29437282","andreyk","Fun fact, there is a podcast with this concept (but not AI based) - Boring Books for Bedtime. 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