Awesome to see this make it to public release! I've been using it for a few days now and it's the best agentic experience I've seen so far so congrats to the entire team!
Thank you! There's a long way to go still, but it makes me happy to hear when what we think about this, well, new way to program seems to resonate with others.
We've all been on both sides of this article. Sometimes (especially in startups) we overcommit and fail to hit our deadlines. This can burn relationships and do such harm that I think it's an incredibly important skill to develop, particularly for entrepreneurs.
This skill seems to go hand in hand with the ability to say "no" when you have too much on your plate.
As a side note... the Edittress platform is pretty cool! It looks like a much needed mentorship platform that I think will receive a warm welcome into the tech community particularly now that we are having more open discussions about mental health, inclusion, and diversity.
I hope we can expect a ShowHN soon! I just signed up.
2. The app itself is on Rails with AWS Polly transcribing most of the requests. x% of the transcriptions are routed to a Flask API that runs a neural TTS engine + with token-based SSML rolling out slowly for some heavy-users.
3. I have no plans to monetize Polly Podcast.
4. Unlimited readings.
5. I'm working now with large publishers to figure out what the costs look like to generate new synthetic voices at scale. Hope to release this publicly as soon as I get the go-ahead.
If you have any questions feel free to reach out in email =]
I’ve been working on Polly Podcast for a few months and I’m excited to share it with the community. I made this so that I could listen to articles while at work or during my commute.
Once I got into building the platform I found this incredible voice synthesis community in NYC, which led me to Recess Labs[0], which is where I am now while I work on building my own voice model based on the recent Tacotron 2 paper[1].
Would love feedback and I’m happy to answer any questions or talk about voice-tech.
Hey Ryel,
Thanks for checking it out. I didn't think of that idea, of automating the summaries and letting the community edit them. Initially when I thought of the app, I resisted automating summaries since thats what a lot of summarizing algorithms do but still miss out crucial parts. But your approach has a fix for that problem.
I've never needed to subtitle a video so I don't really know who your competitors might be but none of the links posted so far in this thread (except for yours) seem to be very easy or intuitive to use.
For OpenCV classification tutorials this is another great resource to keep playing around with DIY projects. FYI avoid his email list unless you enjoy 3-4 sales emails every week.
