AI translation & text-to-speech (podcast)

podcast translation & TTS by a Polish company ElevenLabs; translations available in 32 languages

Free Text to Speech & AI Voice Generator | ElevenLabs

This podcast: from random mix of 3 languages spoken, translated to all of 3 languages,
and then audio generated in all of them with preserving natural sound of voice!
Close captioning is also available in all of the languages.

The original name of Lex's podcast was "AI" podcast. Name well deserved!

 #456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #456 - YouTube

"Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine.

This episode is available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian.
Captions and voice-over audio tracks are provided in English, Ukrainian, Russian,
and the original mixed-language version, with subtitles available in your preferred language.
To listen to the original mixed language version, please select the English (UK) audio track audio track. The default is English overdub."

There was another recent example of such translation of another excellent podcast! 

Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453 - YouTube

excellent book mentioned in the podcast:

Amazon.com: The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language: 9780060520854: McWhorter, John: Books

In the first book written for the layperson about the natural history of language, linguistic professor John McWhorter ranges across linguistic theory, geography, history, and pop culture to tell the fascinating story of how thousands of very different languages have evolved from a single, original source in a natural process similar to biological evolution

Amazon.com: The Story of Human Language (Audible Audio Edition): John McWhorter, John McWhorter, The Great Courses, The Great Courses: Books

a keyboard, also mentioned in the podcast:

Amazon.com: Kinesis Advantage2 Ergonomic Keyboard (KB600), Black top case, Cherry MX Brown Switches, QWERTY keycaps : Electronics

Kindle App Text-To-Speech @ Android, iOS

Text-to-speech for e-books is available not only on Kindle devices, but all with Kindle apps!

How to Use the Assistive Reader in Kindle Apps - Amazon Customer Service

To turn on Assistive Reader:

1. Open the Kindle app on your iOS, Android, or Fire Tablet device.
2. 
   Open the content where you'd like to use Assistive Reader. Once you turn on Assistive Reader, it remains available until you turn it off again.
3. Tap the top center of the screen, and then select the reading settings menu, Aa.
4. Select More, and then turn on Assistive Reader.
5. To display the player controls, tap the screen. You can control the reading speed, or rewind by 30 seconds using the player controls at the bottom of the screen.

Amazon Kindle - Apps on Google Play

wasm-vips: image processing, C=>WASM=>JS

kleisauke/wasm-vips: libvips for the browser and Node.js, compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten.

libvips for the browser and Node.js, compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten.

an efficient image processing library written in C. This build offers an isomorphic route to using it in the browser, as well as Node and Deno, all thanks to WebAssembly. (There's an interactive demo here.)

JavaScript Weekly Issue 716: December 12, 2024

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