[Solvency]

What I've been dreaming of is a "podcast" generated for a day of HN, but focusing on the comments and conversations.

I come here for the convos. But I also commute in a car, and I exercise with headphones.

I want like a radio show made of segments. Each segment is a post with the best conversations between users. Use a generative Ai voice service (like Coqui), and have it speak the comments aloud.

Then I can listen to interesting chatter through my headphones.

[hyferg]

Hey, we're working on this!

https://pgpod.com/

You have to add articles yourself and it does not have any special logic for HN threads yet.

[Solvency]

This is very cool, for sure. But what I'm looking for is something that is super optimized for threaded conversations, like this site. Imagine if each poster were a unique voice, and the format was basically listening to all of the top conversations for a given post, in a way that makes it easy to follow the conversation and back-and-forth from the threads. There would clearly need to be a little bit of design applied and some simplification, but I think that's where some GPT element could come into create a simplified conversation with a condensed amount of speakers.

[hyferg]

Interesting, I think the point about processing with GPT is important. Our thing started as naive narration but many articles are hard to follow when simply narrated.

[uLogMicheal]

Would be cool to use the username as a seed so that the voice is the same every time for a poster that frequents the auto-cast.

[bckmn]

You may learn something from my experience building the same thing: https://www.joshbeckman.org/narro/

[hyferg]

Thanks, this is very valuable. I sent an email.

[jonas-w]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34990229

[zigh]

Do you know how this site works? and it seems stopped updating.

[jonas-w]

Sorry, just did remember that this was on the front page some time ago.

[changxin]

AI is refactoring everything