crowdcast VS bark

Try making a podcast - https://github.com/AdmTal/crowdcast

I recently abandoned a similar project, feel free to steal code if you want - https://github.com/AdmTal/crowdcast

All of the code is here, but I'm going to give some quick links to the prompts below.

As always, the script is on Github - if you're more of a reading type of person 👀

Otherwise, it’s pretty simple, I have a script that pulls the top three comments every week, and I run them through a series of prompts in order to build a full podcast script. Then I use Eleven Labs to generate the voice. I stitch it all together with some music using Python, and then publish it using Buzzsprout. I’m currently using GPT-4 to run the prompts.

Of course, all of the code is open source if you’re into that kind of thing - feel free to open a PR, would love to collaborate and get feedback.

So I looked around and decided to use Bark Infinity. (Originally wanted to use Amazon Polly, but don't have a credit card) I tried around and found out that the female storyteller voice sounds quite decently. So I used that and a reference clip of Myne's voice as prompt (which I think might have helped a little... I don't get all that program's features) to generate a whole chapter. That worked quite well.

AI-generated voice. I'll have to try Bark Infinity and Speechify.

I'll link my Bark fork with long audio generation and other features on the root thread, I suppose: https://github.com/JonathanFly/bark

There's going to be a big update this week with some new stuff I haven't talked about. And a bunch of amazing, clear voices, with a huge variety of styles, that blow the default Suno voices out of the water.

Don't get too attached though. I was just playing around and made a Bark fork and it got more popular than expected. But I wasn't thinking about the hours of unpaid support and maintenance in my future that I definitely can NOT afford, for software I don't even really have a personal use case for. I'm not generating my own audiobooks or anything, I won’t be using it long term myself, I was just curious what Bark could do. (Turns out a LOT more than you might think at first glance, as you'll see this week.) So I'm trying to work out how I can elegantly wind this down and transition people somewhere else. But I'll keep it updated for at least a little while.