Thoughts on Doing Business
This morning at work I wanted to listen to an audiobook, so I searched online and found this 【“Madness and Civilization” Michel Foucault【Audiobook | Synchronized Text】】 I think what he’s done is very appropriate. For sociology- and philosophy-related books, just reading often feels dull and leads to giving up; just listening often means forgetting the context, zoning out, and not knowing what’s being said. These kinds of books are best suited for audiobooks with synchronized text. So I started thinking: how did he make an audiobook like this? What AI tools did he use? How did he align the text and audio precisely? I dug through r/localllama for quite a while. Open-source solutions are usually very complicated: first convert the ebook into audio and timestamped subtitles, then synchronize the subtitles with the audio to produce a video. ...