Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔
So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯
It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️
👉 We could call them: textcasts!
And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here: https://rys.io/en/feed.rss
@rysiek what speech-to-text tool do you use for textcasting your podcast?
And now I need to buy a new device that supports audiocasting your textcasts...
TBF I would really like something that transcribes podcasts or videos and maybe removes/deemphasizes[1] the speech mannerisms that are helpful for speech but not for text (e.g. some kinds of repetitions). I haven't seen yet anything that would do even the first part well totally automatically, but I think both parts are much closer than other things people dream of AI doing.
[1] in text, one can use various font style tricks to do so
@rysiek
I've added your textcasts feed (blog 😉 ) to my RSS reader. Slowly going through your older posts and looking forward to new posts when you make them.
@rysiek I mean that's very effective but there's something I find charming about some of the absolutely cheesy wooden reading of adverts in podcasts and I was wondering how best to replicate this level of "Oh look I want to talk about my favourite <checks notes> toothpaste <checks notes> Colgate which <checks notes> always helps keep my teeth in good shape" its just like absolute chefs kiss levels of - someone paid for this? Does it work???
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