Wrote a script to get all of the arxiv links that got tweeted out by @_akhaliq in the past week

• Follow him on twitter and check out his Patreon! patreon.com/akhaliq

Wrote a script to download all of the raw latex of those papers from arxiv.org

Wrote a script to parse the introduction & conclusion out of the raw latex from all of the research papers.

Wrapped the chatGPT website with web browser automation

• I could have done it manually, I just like to script stuff (I promise I didn’t break TOS!!)

Wrote a script to generate dialogue

• Provides the introduction to chatGPT, and ask it to simulate a podcast dialogue. Prompted to have the simulated individuals to be excited.

• Does the same, but instead, doing it with the conclusion.

• Dumps the result to disk.

Wrote a script to take the generated dialogue, and generate speech using tortoises-tts by jbetker.

• Check out jbetker’s blog at nonint.com (warning, it’s impressive to the point of being an infohazard)

Problem: The dialogue is a bit repetitive. It’s also redundantly excited.

• I’ll figure out a way to include both the introduction & conclusion into the same GPT output.

Problem: the dialogue is always surface level

• I’m going to figure out a way to methodically summarize the whole paper, and then use that to become a dialogue.

Ferris Prime’s voice isn’t as good as Joe Prime’s voice.

I’ll experiment with having one person in the podcast, instead of two people.

The generation takes a really long time (~6h for 1.5h of audio). I’m thinking of building orchestration