https://uselinea.com - A reading app with a harness or a harness with reading app. Can turn any highlight/page/section into audio with your favority TTS engine, including Kokoro if you like
I initially built it to help me read AI papers before discovering AlphaXiv but then I just kept building it for the love of the game
Might have some rough edges but one feature I'm excited about is a more personalized notebook LM style audio generation capability for any readable material
(Another reason to build this was to kick the tires on a framework I've been building to power my own apps - https://hudsonkit.com - helps me ship iOS, macOS and web apps with shared primitives)
I think we're close to the point where local models can make this economically viable as an alternative to hands off XAI/OAI/ANT
You need rapid good enough rapid turn response + rapid good enough TTS in order to make it economically for someone who's not blending it into a more compute heavy pricing model
the loop is going to be interesting as we produce orders of magnitude low signal code, how do Labs comb through everything to train on the true contributions since last training run?
I wonder if one way to monetize certified "skill" will be to syndicate / license your provably well software engineered / tasteful AI engineered code back to the Labs for a fee
there's one of these just about every other week since early this year
i think it's incredible because however saturated I feel this space has become, highly likely the vast majority of the world has no idea how good models have become, let alone local models
I've added local voice support for all apps/webapps I've built this year
Local TTS is on the cusp of a breakout too, basically a year behind ASR imo in terms of adoption, understanding, size and quality
I've been building a little app on the side that allows me to primarily read my books in epub, mobi or pdf -> text format but generate readouts on demand for only the bits I want (highlight, paragraph, page, chapter) so that I can continue while I'm on the go, without having to bifurcate between apps - this might already exist but I made mine
Naturally, I also added the ability to highlight, leave notes and ... ask questions (via API)
Even with incredible models, it's a decent amount of work to get this to work nicely
I initially built it to help me read AI papers before discovering AlphaXiv but then I just kept building it for the love of the game
Might have some rough edges but one feature I'm excited about is a more personalized notebook LM style audio generation capability for any readable material
(Another reason to build this was to kick the tires on a framework I've been building to power my own apps - https://hudsonkit.com - helps me ship iOS, macOS and web apps with shared primitives)
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