Hacker News with Generative AI: Audiobooks

Ask HN: Best audiobooks you've listened to recently? (Cosmic horror/non-fiction) (ycombinator.com)
I have a long flight coming up and I’m looking for audiobook recommendations — fiction or non-fiction. If it’s fiction would be interested in cosmic horror or sci fi genres.
Audiobooks, Recommendations, Science Fiction, Cosmic Horror
9 points by febed 1 day ago | 8 comments
Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author (newsandreviews.substack.com)
On Monday morning this week I started a dot point list of notes I wanted to hit in this week’s bad review, then I looked up and it was lunchtime and I was 1200 words into something much, much bigger.
Audiobooks, Reading, Writing, Publishing
32 points by zeristor 14 days ago | 68 comments
I threw away Audible's app, and now I self-host my audiobooks (arstechnica.com)
We’re an audiobook family at House Hutchinson, and at any given moment my wife or I are probably listening to one while puttering around.
Audiobooks, Self-Hosting, Technology, Software
14 points by MattTheRealOne 44 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: Searchable library of free audiobooks (booksearch.party)
This is an open beta, currently listing (4610 Books):
Open Source, Audiobooks, Search Engines
163 points by libridev 77 days ago | 28 comments
Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M (claudio.uk)
Kokoro v0.19 is a recently published text-to-speech model with just 82M params and very high-quality output.
Text-to-Speech, Generative AI, Software, Audiobooks
420 points by csantini 102 days ago | 246 comments
Show HN: Convert ePub to audio files (github.com/rafael1mc)
Convert ePUB into audio files.
Software, Audiobooks, Ebooks
45 points by rafael1mc 126 days ago | 9 comments
Why my new audiobook is everywhere except on Audible (pragmaticengineer.com)
Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a mix of their monopolistic pricing practices, and the company’s own complacency in how long they take to approve new titles.
Audiobooks, Business, Monopolies, Competition
14 points by ingve 137 days ago | 2 comments
Audible's Monopolistic Practices (pragmaticengineer.com)
A year after The Software Engineer’s Guidebook was published, the audiobook version is here! The good news is it’s available on ALMOST all major audiobook platforms:
Audiobooks, Business, Monopolies
27 points by nico401 138 days ago | 3 comments
Against dystopian views of high-speed audiobook listening (dynomight.substack.com)
There was recently a thread on r/slatestarcodex about “What life hacks are actually life changing”. One of the examples given was:
Audiobooks, Dystopia, Life Hacks
6 points by gregorymichael 199 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command (github.com/C-Loftus)
Create a natural audiobook for any text content with one command.
Audiobooks
105 points by C-Loftus 202 days ago | 44 comments
Show HN: 73,530 free book summaries in 40 languages (with paid audio) (sobrief.com)
Read any non-fiction in 10 minutes
Books, Summaries, Language Learning, Audiobooks
39 points by jazz3020 208 days ago | 46 comments
AI audiobooks – 10% more audiobooks this year than all of 2023 (bookrank.io)
Artificial Intelligence, Audiobooks, Books, Industry Trends
10 points by bye 254 days ago | 16 comments
Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech (listenly.io)
OpenAI, Text-to-Speech, Audiobooks, Generative AI, Show HN
140 points by evan_ry 287 days ago | 109 comments
Show HN: Devirtualize Audible- extension removes Virtual/AI audiobook narrators (github.com/montsamu)
Software, Accessibility, Audiobooks, Open Source
4 points by randycupertino 291 days ago | 1 comments