EA - Announcing: Audio narrations of EA Forum posts by peterhartree

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcing: Audio narrations of EA Forum posts, published by peterhartree on December 5, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum.We've started making audio narrations of some of the best posts from the EA Forum.As of today, you can subscribe to the podcast:EA Forum (All audio)Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and other great writing.Subscribe:Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts (soon) | Spotify | RSSYou'll also start to see narrations embedded on the EA Forum post pages themselves.If a narration is available, you'll see a blue loudspeaker button:What can I listen to now?Some of the winning entries from the EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contest:Are you really in a race? The cautionary tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg by Haydn BelfieldDoes economic growth meaningfully improve well-being? by Vadim AlbinskyEffective altruism in the garden of ends by Tyler AltermanNotes on effective altruism by Michael NielsenBiological Anchors external review by Jennifer LinSome posts that were recently marked as “curated”:Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case by Katja GraceMy take on What We Owe the Future by Eli LiflandPopulation ethics without axiology: A framework by Lukas Gloor500 million, but not a single one more by jaiAGI and lock-in by Lukas Finnveden, Jess Riedel, and Carl ShulmanWhat matters to shrimps? Factors affecting shrimp welfare in aquaculture by Lucas Lewit-Mendes and Aaron BoddyCase for emergency response teams by Gavin and Jan KulveitWhat happens on the average day? by Rose HadsharHow bad could a war get? by Stephen Clare and Rani MartinCool. But I have a lot of things to listen to. Could I just get the curated posts, or maybe just the summaries?Yes. You can subscribe to either of these:EA Forum (Curated posts)Audio narrations of curated posts from the Effective Altruism Forum. Subscribe:Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts (soon) | Spotify | RSSEA Forum (Summaries)Weekly summaries of the best EA Forum posts. Written by Zoe Williams (Rethink Priorities) and narrated by Coleman Jackson Snell.Subscribe:Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts (soon) | Spotify | RSSWhat about AI narrations? I want to listen to everything!The Nonlinear Library project is currently generating AI narrations of all posts that meet a fairly low karma threshold.Within the next few months, we are hoping to collaborate with Nonlinear to develop a system that generates even better AI narrations for most or all EA Forum posts. We see a path to better pronunciation, emphasis, and tone, and also to much better handling of images, graphs and formulae.Who is working on this?This project is run by the EA Forum Team, in collaboration with TYPE III AUDIO.What about the existing “EA Forum Podcast”?In July 2021, Garrett Baker and David Reinstein started a volunteer project to narrate EA Forum posts. The most recent narration was published in January 2022. Since September they’ve been publishing Zoe and Coleman’s weekly summary episodes.We are grateful to Garrett and David for their work on this.We’ve not yet heard what they plan to do next—presumably they’ll release an update to subscribers in due course.Thoughts, feedback, suggestions?We'd love to hear from you! Please comment below, or write to [email protected] you’re already listening to Nonlinear Library AI narrations, we’d be especially interested to hear what you think of them. What would you most like to see improved?Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.