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by cyberax 904 days ago
Ah, makes sense. Maybe have it as an option?

And I haven't realized that you can actually see sentences highlighted as they are being read. I'd love that for Chinese (I'm learning it, so it'd help me a lot). I'll try and see if it "just works", and contribute a patch if it doesn't.
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smoores 904 days ago
There's an open ticket for languages other than English! https://gitlab.com/smoores/storyteller/-/issues/10. If you want to take a look, please do! I don't have any contributing guidelines yet, unfortunately, but they'll probably come soon. I think Whisper does have Cantonese and Mandarin support, so it should be possible to add support for those languages, though we'll have to look into nltk support for sentence tokenization as well!
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yorwba 904 days ago
A few years ago, I made that as a YouTube channel based on LibriVox audiobooks, maybe you'll enjoy it:

Simplified Mandarin: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVlVz7EDz7fprPeVpqQCvlkMI...

Traditional Mandarin: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVlVz7EDz7fpQZr29P5hqVveL...

... also 33 other languages https://youtube.com/@literature_for_eyes_and_ears/playlists

I left it to languish once I discovered the demand wasn't that great and I was spending more time making the videos than people ultimately spent watching them.

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