Link List

An inter­ac­tive explo­ration explain­ing how record play­ers work, detail­ing how a sty­lus reads grooves carved into vinyl to recre­ate sound waves. Part of a series break­ing down every­day tech­nol­o­gy through visu­al­iza­tions and acces­si­ble expla­na­tions for curi­ous non-tech­ni­cal read­ers.

SoTA open-source TTS. Con­tribute to resem­ble-ai/chat­ter­box devel­op­ment by cre­at­ing an account on GitHub.

Run pop­u­lar AI text-to-speech mod­els like XTTS-V2 to clone your voice with high-qual­i­ty, real­is­tic-sound­ing out­put in over 12 dif­fer­ent lan­guages.

Incred­i­bly fast Whis­per-large-v3. Con­tribute to chenxwh/in­sane­ly-fast-whis­per devel­op­ment by cre­at­ing an account on GitHub.

Handy is a free, open source speech-to-text appli­ca­tion that tran­scribes spo­ken words direct­ly into text fields using a key­board short­cut. It runs local­ly on your com­put­er with­out send­ing audio to the cloud, offer­ing cus­tomiz­able push-to-talk or tog­gle modes for tran­scrip­tion con­trol.

VoiceInk is a pri­va­cy-focused dic­ta­tion app for macOS that uses local AI to tran­scribe speech to text with high accu­ra­cy. It works across all appli­ca­tions, offers cus­tomiz­able modes for dif­fer­ent tasks, and includes fea­tures like cus­tom vocab­u­lary and key­board short­cuts. Avail­able as a one-time pur­chase with no sub­scrip­tion required.

KEXP is a lis­ten­er-sup­port­ed radio sta­tion fea­tur­ing live music per­for­mances, in-stu­dio ses­sions, and pod­casts. The site offers live stream­ing, an archive of past broad­casts, and upcom­ing pub­lic events includ­ing artist per­for­mances and Camp KEXP pro­gram­ming in Seat­tle.

Radio Par­adise streams high­ly curat­ed, eclec­tic mix­es of music — cho­sen by real humans — with unpar­al­leled audio qual­i­ty.

The Atlantic arti­cle exam­ines the ​“oral­i­ty the­o­ry of every­thing,” which argues that human com­mu­ni­ca­tion is revert­ing from lit­er­ate cul­ture to oral char­ac­ter­is­tics, with pro­found impli­ca­tions for how we think, orga­nize soci­ety, and process infor­ma­tion. Draw­ing on mid-20^th-cen­tu­ry media the­o­rists like Wal­ter Ong and Mar­shall McLuhan, it explores how the rise of social media and dig­i­tal con­ver­sa­tion mir­rors pre-lit­er­ate com­mu­ni­ca­tion pat­terns and reshapes human con­scious­ness.

Old school ring­tones from the 1990s and 2000s.

This GitHub repo hosts a local web app to con­trol Sonos speak­ers. It offers audio pro­files, sched­ul­ing, and ses­sion detec­tion for speak­er man­age­ment.

Hush is an ML-pow­ered macOS app that cleans spo­ken audio. It removes noise and reverb from pod­casts, voiceovers, and audio­books for stu­dio-qual­i­ty sound.

Audio com­po­nent library

State-of-the-art TTS mod­el under 25MB 😻 . Con­tribute to KittenML/​KittenTTS devel­op­ment by cre­at­ing an account on GitHub.

BBC Sound Effects

At a time of unset­tling news at home and abroad, these shows offer tips and first-per­son accounts to alle­vi­ate a spi­ral­ing sense of unease.

Wavesurfer.js is an open-source audio visu­al­iza­tion library for cre­at­ing inter­ac­tive, cus­tomiz­able wave­forms.