Inspired by the Michael Parenti collection I made this podcast for articles from marxists.org
Inspired by the Michael Parenti collection I made this podcast for articles from marxists.org
Listen to TTS Marxists Internet Archive on Spotify. Text to speech converted articles from the Marxists Internet Archive. This is not affiliated with them in any other way.
Available on plain rss https://anchor.fm/s/e8b6108c/podcast/rss too
Also, please send me suggestions for articles I should add there, because I have no idea how to approach curation of that library.
Any other feedback is appreciated.
Edit: I just found this https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6319. Looks excellent! I'll work on getting it through.
Edit 2: and then I'll probably come this way: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/dessalines_marxism_study_plan.html
Edit 3: I'll also play with the order, because it feels like a good idea to mix introductions for multiple subjects, so that it feels a little less repetitive. Even though... can't do much about the dryness of AI speech.
As someone who almost exclusively depends on audiobooks for theory, you are a godsend.
I'd recommend considering using Balabolka as a TTS generator because if you go to Tools > Use online TTS service you can select IBM Watson as the TTS engine (and it bypass the word limit restrictions.)
I think that Michael is my preferred TTS option for Watson but it's been a while. Whatever the case, Watson is far and away the most listenable TTS that I've come across.
Lmk if you want screenshots because the Balabolka UI is a bit clunky.
It may be a bit challenging because I don't use Windows, and this project is kind of a useful early spinoff from few experiments I've been doing with android tts.
The point is to figure a FOSS self hostable way for on the fly building of audio books from epubs and articles. And then, depending on online non-libre tooling feels a bit fragile.
That one is Google's with UK accent, and it's far from perfect. I want to play with https://github.com/mozilla/TTS still, and see what comes out of it.
In the meantime, I'll also try to run balabolka on Linux and see if I can take something away from it. Thanks!