There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them. If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a lie. "If it looks like a duck..."
It's just a technical implementation detail. And I'm not hiding it; I'm describing it in the post
It makes them "not generated" which means the "generated" part is a lie. Generally I've found Ukrainian software developers to be dishonest, but now I'm wondering if it's a cultural difference in understanding of what words mean.
I explained what I did in detail.
I'm open in the comment section and explained my reasoning regarding the pricing.
I've made practically no money off of this project so far.
There is an option to cache, but there is also an option to crowd-source, which makes the price for the first person smaller.
Moreover, if you try to buy an 'hour plan' for $15 and listen to any PG book, you will not be billed for the converted chunk, so the caching works as you'd expect.
You seem to understand english well enough that you know that the title, as stated, is a lie. It's simply not true regardless of whatever rationalizations you can come up with. You barely making money off it doesn't make it true. Users being able to buy a $15/month subscription to listen to 10 hours of audio doesn't make it true.
1. There are 70,000 audiobooks in the catalog, and people can listen to them.
If audio is generated on-demand in the background, it does not make them "not-audiobooks", and it does not make my post a lie.
It's just a technical implementation detail. And I'm not hiding it; I'm describing it in the post.
I cannot describe the implementation detail in the short title.
It's just that you decided to believe that it's a lie, saying it very confidently, and taking down the post that was received generally very positively.
2. It's not a subscription, it's one-time purchase of hours.
It's not all on you. I can see that culturally in marketing this has become acceptable for many people. I just think it is unfair for people who want to be honest in their titles or thumbnails etc. But that's not really the standard. I was just complaining about something, not about you only.
I just wrote a catchy title (which can be a bit misleading, but not dramatically, as all the audiobooks I'm mentioning are really accessible to people; I developed all the infrastructure needed for that), and tried to clarify everything in the post itself.
They are better, but they still sound slightly unnatural to me, the pauses are in the wrong places, or not long enough. It takes me out of focusing on the actual words
They're using a previous generation of TTS models, which most of the reader apps are using. They're reasonable, cheap, but sound noticeably worse than OpenAI's or 11Labs. I don't like them.
LibriVox does this with people who volunteer to read everything. It’s an extremely time consuming endeavor for the readers but they ultimately choose to do so unpaid. Why not create a system that covers the cost of the TTS model at cost as to avoid profiting off of what exists in the public domain? That’s the spirit of things being in the public domain.
