The podcast is produced entirely using AI tools. We welcome your feedback on all aspects including the following:<p>Clarity of post summaries: Are the summaries easy to understand? Would you like them to be more or less detailed?
Top 10 focus: Should we continue featuring the top 10 posts or consider covering more or fewer posts?
Background music: Do you enjoy the music in the background, or would you prefer a music-free podcast?
Synthetic voice recognition: Were you able to identify that the voice is AI-generated?
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I think I've said this before but this totally doesn't understand why podcasts are popular. So much media material is inauthentic that long form podcasts became big as people were looking to connect with other people authentically.<p>This concept, of creating a podcast using AI is exactly the kind of inauthentic thing podcasts got popular because of and as an alternative to. Crowd sourcing HN material to put through an AI tool for marketing buzz is the opposite of the impetus for podcasts. It fails as a podcast from the get go. You can't connect with this host - they don't offer opinions, they don't offer insight into their history or personality. There's no human on the other end, just a narrator regurgitating stuff a computer scraped from a website.<p>That the host sounds better than siri or google assistant doesn't redeem the concept which is bankrupt as a podcast from the get go.
For me what would move this from an interesting proof of concept to something that might become part of my routine is incorporating user comments on the top posts into the podcast. What is the community's reaction to each post? What debates have they sparked? This is HN's secret sauce.
The voice is insanely good (a few long vowels are noticeably artificial/synthesized if you're paying attention, but that's a tiny nit), what tools do you use to generate it?
Firstly, this is a brilliant way to market your company. It's a legitimately useful service that show cases your company's abilities. Win win!<p>Secondly, the quality is really good. The voice sounds great, although there were some points where the voice got super awkward in a non-human way. Here's an example:<p>"Recently Meta introduced Llama <super awkward pause and intonation> an innovative LLM that matched GPT's performance, despite ..."<p>I'm guessing it was trying to read a : or some type of punctuation that made it flow weird, as I've run into this with speech synthesis before as well.<p>The background music is great!
I disagree with the first commenter. A lot of people like podcasts to stay up to date with niche topics while being able to consume in an audio format. I listen to up to 4 hours of podcasts a day because I can listen while I do other things. I think this is great.<p>There are many types of podcasts. Don't get discouraged. Podcasts are like pizza. Everyone likes a different kind and everyone thinks the ones they like are the best.
It may be more interesting as a dual host format, where one person is knowledgeable and the other is asking questions. Otherwise it can get monotonous to simply hear someone read a summary.
This is really good! The voice sounds much like This American Life. Is it inspired by that?<p>It is a bit boring though. Maybe add some other voices or even discussions?