The true value of Zvi posts is that it costs very few Weirdness Points to read but quite a few to reference in conversation.
Here is the podcast episode for this post. I really hope some people are finding value in these conversions:
https://open.substack.com/pub/dwatvpodcast/p/monthly-roundup-28-march-2025
Thanks for the feedback! Sorry the voices aren’t quite to your taste. A new model ver ion of the base voice gen is due to be released imminently, which may sound better to your ear. I personally quite like the “World Weary and Wise” quality of the main voice for Zvi, especially around sections where there inevitably people making fairly ridiculous claims and statements.
Going to take the opportunity to post a reminder that I am producing an ElevenLabs quality, muti-voiced podcast for the Don’t Worry About the Vase feed.
https://open.substack.com/pub/dwatvpodcast/p/on-openais-model-spec-20
These Don’t Worry About the Vase podcast episodes aren’t just simple text-to-speech conversions. For example, in this post, I’ve pulled all the “User,” “Compliant,” and “Violation” quotes, given them distinct and consistent voices within the episode, and ensured a logical order—all to make the episode as engaging and coherent as possible. I hope this serves as a valuable resource for those who find audio more accessible, and I encourage them to give the podcast a try!
Reminder that I am producing a multi-voiced, ElevenLabs MV2 quality podcast feed for Don’t Worry About the Vase for those that find that a valuable thing:
https://open.substack.com/pub/dwatvpodcast/p/monthly-roundup-24-november-2024?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
All uniquely quoted people get a distinct voice for easy differentiation, and I personally find the main “Zvi Voice” really good for long listening.
I’ve turned this into a full cast recording with ElevenLabs, with individual voices for all the players:
https://open.substack.com/pub/askwhocastsai/p/openai-email-archives-from-musk-v
Multi voiced podcast episode for this post in all is two hours and thirty eight minute glory!
(Fun fact, the voice I gave Nate was the one created for contract devils in Planecrash)
https://open.substack.com/pub/dwatvpodcast/p/book-review-on-the-edge-the-gamblers
Podcast episode for this post from the Askwho feed described at the top:
Yeah, just plugging any old unadjusted text straight in to ElevenLabs would get you funky results. I really like Zvi’s posts though, I think they are high quality, combining both great original content and a fantastic distillation of quoted views from across the sphere. I do fair amount of work on the text of each post to ensure a good podcast episode gets made out of each one.
Thanks! Yes, I am aware, please, I would encourage you to listen to the difference. I am running this through ElevenLabs, which is currently (IMO) at the forefront of humanlike voices, if produces lifelike tone and cadenced based on cues. I also go through and assign every unique quoted person a unique voice, to ensure clear differentiation when listening, alongside extracting text from images, and providing a description when appropriate.
I really do implore you, please, have a listen to a section and reply back how you find it in comparison.
Whew, this heroic length post translates to 2 hours and 23 minutes of top-quality narration :D
Podcast episode for this post:
https://open.substack.com/pub/dwatvpodcast/p/ai-75-math-is-easier?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I want to share these links in the comments because I hope people who, like me, find audio more accessible, are able to learn of the existence of this podcast feed. I put a fair bit of work into ensuring a high-quality audio feed. I’m not trying to just spam, but if this is outside the norms of lesswrong, please let me know.
Apposite to the content, this is the AI podcast episode for this post:
Podcast episode now live for this post on the recently launched Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast Feed!
https://open.substack.com/pub/dwatvpodcast/p/monthly-roundup-20-july-2024
I’m sharing this again because I want to make sure this accessible option for Zvi’s highly worthwhile posts is known to anyone who might find it useful. I know LessWrong has automatic TTS for its posts, but I’m creating an ElevenLabs version for all of Zvi’s posts, which I personally find easier to listen to for longer form texts.
A couple of things that make this version unique:
Every quoted person gets their own individual voice for easy differentiation.
I create audio descriptions of the charts and graphs.
If you’re a fan of audio content, please do give this a try. I’m hoping to provide something that will be useful to at least a few people.
https://askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/ai-73-openly-evil-ai-by-zvi-mowshowitz
Lots of points of views in this, here is an AI “Narration” of this post where every unique quoted person is giver their own distinct “Voice”
https://askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/the-leopold-model-analysis-and-reactions
Long post is indeed long, AI audio conversion for those that like to consume that way:
https://askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/on-dwarkeshs-podcast-with-leopold
Whew this one was a bit of a doozy, multi voiced AI narration where everyone gets their own voice:
Hopefully people do find it useful. I know I’ve been able to consume more with my dyslexic preference for audio. I do put a fair bit of work into things like giving every distinct “speaker” their own voice. And,.for me at least, the end product is a good listen.
Multi Voiced AI narration of this post. Every unique quoted person gets their own voice to distinguish them:
https://askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/openai-fallout-by-zvi-mowshowitz
You are most welcome!
AI reading of this post:
https://askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/the-schumer-report-rtfb-by-zvi-mowshowitz
Podcast episode, once again a “Full Cast” recording of that story included:
https://open.substack.com/pub/dwatvpodcast/p/they-took-my-job