wefwef working for me weird

The front end ui is down. Thirdparty apps that use lemmy api still work.

I use a combination of a MacMini Oracle cloud, probably not best long term solution but it’s free (while it lasts).

Stuff that runs on Oracle:

• caddy proxy (mostly used for Mac reverse proxy)
• couch db (obsidian live sync plugin)

Stuff on Mac:

• blue bubbles (iMessage relay for Android)
• Plex (for photo backup)

Aside from that not much else 😊

Not sure if your into light novels, recently I’ve been addicted to Acendence of A Bookworm.

There is a self host sync plugin for obsidian (I’m assuming you just want to self host not any other specific reasons)

https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

I currently use it with a self hosted docker instance of couchdb

https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync/blob/main/docs/setup_own_server.md

Edit alternativly their is Joplin (but not sure about how you used obsidian/zotero)

https://joplinapp.org/

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server/README.md

https://github.com/tborychowski/self-hosted-cookbook/blob/master/apps/notes/joplin.md

I got it right 3/7 times :(

I am currently using a older version of Lemmy.

Side question what is your favorite rayark song? Mine personally is Marigold from deemo (though haven’t unlocked it sorta on 3rd deemo play through).

The app does have newer versions on fdroid/izzydroid the playstore version for some reason is stuck behind though (idk if this bc newer versions are alpha).

Working on my end tysm 🙂

Strange I tried that on my end and it didn’t show

Side note picture uploads on my end seem to be running into Json syntax error again

thanks, did you do anything differnt by any chance to get federation to work?

Hi I’m trying to federate to !metadiscussions@bookwormstory.social however when I search I keep on getting no search results found

I have search set to all, creators set to all, communities set to all, and sort type set to new.

Not sure if I’m doing something wrong on my end.

https://bookwormstory.social/c/metadiscussions (source node)

So kinda heads up my work flow is kinda janky.

For eleven labs:

While this may sound stupidly crude I just copy text directly into elven labs website. While eleven labs sounds much much much better than wavenet they are very expensive (I use a few burner accounts). Currently I really only use them for J-novel prepubs parts. I would not consider/recomend converting a whole book with them.

For wavenet:

Disclamer their is probably a less janky way of doing this.

Prereqs:

Android phone with aiitts (replaces text to speech engine with wavenet) and Librera Reader FD https://www.milmike.com/aitts-google-wavenet-voices-for-android-tts https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/

A google cloud account with wavenet api key

1. I convert the book/text I want into a pdf (using tools like calibre)

2. Set up ai tts (import your api key and pick your voice I’m curently using US Wavenet F)

3. I open the pdf in Libera reader and use its Record TTS

4. Open the folder in Smart audio book and enjoy listening

Side notes:

1. You get about 1 million characters free with wavenet (about two light novels roughly)

2. Make sure to test the play button in Libera reader first if you don’t hear audio you may need to check if your plugin is installed properly (aitts). Alternatively if it isn’t working its possible you may need to create a pdf with larger text (tldr the plugin can send to many queries rapidly if text is to small causing wavenet to reject them)

3. If your doing a whole light novel (or book conversion) do it in chunks of 50-100 pages. After each block conversion check if the files are a few kilobytes. If you see something like 413 bytes its more than likely that file is corrupt due to wavenet not liking the text (ex to small or font, etc), you may have to tinker with the pdf a bit.

Future hopes:

I in the future I kinda hope to figure out a better way to handle wavenet. I have tried some programs in github but It was kinda hit /miss and got busy. Possibly might look into coqui ai (its a self hosted equivalent to wavenet) down the line:

https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

Smart AudioBook Player (Android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ak.alizandro.smartaudiobookplayer&hl=en_US&gl=US

I primarley use it in combination with google wavenet/ Elevenlabs to generate audio books from light novels (for personal use)

Biggest reason I like it is wavenet/eleven labs tends to generate 1-2 min mp3 files. Smart audio book allows clustering of these mp3 files (merging total listening time).