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[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I torrent on myanonamouse. YouTube occasionally has stuff, internet archive, or even the Pirate Bay. I know it’s public, it’s watched, blah blah blah, but unless it’s the new hotness, I’m not real worried about Random House or Penguin Audio coming after my ass.

[–] crime@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

+1 for MAM. Super friendly tracker and easy to get in to (it's an open interview process). Really generous bonus system and freeleech system too.

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Audiobookbay, and 3xforum

Audiobookbay has a lot of books, but the direct download links are scams or paid. You can use the magnet links, though. Either sign up for an account and you get access to a limited number of magnet links per day, or you can just copy the "infohash" field and put it at the end of "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:" without the quotes, and then paste that into your torrent software.

The 3xforum has direct download links, but a much smaller selection

[–] ProjectCyberSin@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Anna’s archive has been pretty great

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

While we're at it, can we make any book into an audiobook with some AI shit now?

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

kind of, but it's annoying to set up for non-fiction books with lots of quotes and ellipses, and extra painful when the ebook's footnotes and citations are formatted weirdly.

Straightforward novels, memoirs, etc are mostly fine and useable, but lacks the charm of a narrator doing different voices. You can make AI recognize character dialogue and give it different voices, but it's hit or miss whether it'll detect the right person in my experience.

[–] Jucha@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Balabolka is older program for turning any book for audiobook. Several ebook reader software also offer read aloud feature.

Several good sounding AI options are currently behind paywalls. Text to speech tech is going forward with great speech, but public offerings are currently limited.

[–] asante@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

there's this (self-hosted; requires your own software to run on) but idk how it sounds

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I suppose... but why would you want a grating AI voice-over?

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

It will make you a troskyite

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While you arw it, check out the podcast "History of philosophy without any gaps"

[–] FungiDebord@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How far has he gotten? Haven't listened in several years.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago

In the main series, Spanish Renaissance, in the second one its started with Chinese philosophy, but I'm still in the begging of the 20' century of Africana philosophy.

[–] Jucha@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

For pirating audiobooks I first try Mobilism. Second option is searching for a streaming site with duckduckgo ( audiobook + book name), If that does not lead to results then it time to torrent from audiobookbay

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago