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mbil
From the title I expected this would be like talk radio (like NotebookLM style) discussion of random wiki pages.
tasty_freeze
That sounds like a great idea for a sleep aid: have an AI narrate random wikipedia pages. Maybe it could even allow you to specify topics you have no interest in so it doesn't accidentally pick a topic that might grab your interest.
paularmstrong
No need for an AI. Text-to-speech (TTS) is by far good enough and much easier on CPU/GPU and the environment.
vorpalhex
Using an "AI" (LLM) enhanced TTS adds in tone and other markers to let the underlying TTS sound much more natural. You can then double down with an ML tuned TTS to get a more natural voice.
guerrilla
What's an example of that? Anytging I can run locally?
theblazehen
A paid product, but https://elevenlabs.io/ does it pretty well. There is some work on open source versions you can run locally, they work reasonably well, but I haven't kept up with the FOSS field in several months, so I'm unsure which is currently best
squeaky-clean
NotebookLM's audio mode doesn't just read out the given text, it creates a podcast format with 2 hosts where one will ask questions and the other will answer, and go back and forth in a discussion style.
ethan_smith
That would be a fascinating next iteration - combining these random audio clips with LLM-generated summaries or discussions of the Wikipedia articles they're sourced from.
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RheingoldRiver
Why does it play an artificial voice saying "Number 9" over and over in between clips in Revolution 9 mode? it's super annoying especially given the clips are shorter

But this is really cool! I've gotten some animal sounds, weather sounds, music, a small kid talking about a soccer match in Spanish, "evil laugh", political speeches in several languages, and a telephone ringing. only pressed skip a couple times for some really unpleasant noises

martyvis
It's a reference to the Beatles song Revolution Number 9 which includes a lot of clips like that. It does get old pretty quickly here.
guerrilla
Uh wow. This is actual bubble-bursting technology. I love this. Getting StumbleUpon vibes. Also, crazy that so many of these things are actually good... Maybe humanity is not so bad after all? Hmm. Food for thought. :D
laszlojamf
I love this, and I don’t mean to throw any shade on it, but this is kind of thing I’d the best to come out of the ”vibe coding” revolution. I don’t know if this was vibe coded, but what I mean to say is that there are a million things that you just never get around to doing, and LLMs help you to actually _realize_ little cool ideas like this.
jjice
Hopefully the "small internet" gets has a resurgence of goofy websites due to reduced development time. Boilerplate gets super annoying, but LLMs don't procrastinate the way I do.
hofrogs
The implication of this comment is so insulting and unnecessary
Tokkemon
Number 9. Number 9. Number 9....
LoganDark
Two Number 9s, a Number 9 large, a Number 6 with extra dip...
saretup
I get why you added the static noise sound between clips but that gets annoying real quick.
hofrogs
It is extremely loud compared to the main audio for some reason, making the site unusable
komali2
Very cool project, I'm jealous I didn't think of it!
mycatisblack
Cool!

Had some Japanese song pass by and all the letters were vertically arranged (as is tradition), which made it impossible to find out what artist it was.

albert_e
The first track i got was an audio summary of "philosophical razors"

I assumed each "track" is an 5-minute audio summary (LLM+TTS) of a random text ARTICLE from Wikipedia.

Apparently I was mistaken and these are actually random MEDIA uploaded to Wikipedia.

Now I have an idea for a weekend project :)

EDIT:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philosophical_Razors...

Apparently it was not a summary but the full article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor

EDIT2:

Index of all spoken articles on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoken_articles

EDIT3:

Here is my 10-minute vibe-coded implementation of "Wikipedia Radio" for spoken articles (no LLM or TTS at runtime here) -- https://d3rfhwexohg7ag.cloudfront.net/wikipedia-radio.html

jmhammond
Thank you for making what many of us thought this would be! It’s pretty fun
qgin
This is awesome and a great way to come up with ideas
btbuildem
Ahh I thought it would be TTS reading of various wikipedia articles and I got excited :/
washmyelbows
wow - I've quickly found 2 songs that are better than anything I've discovered in weeks
jamilton
A lot of the music seems to be reuploaded from freemusicarchive.org, hadn't heard of that before but it seems cool.