Hacker News: audiala

New comment by audiala in "Claude Opus 4.7"

audiala — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:42:01 +0000

Really disappointed with Anthropic recently, burned through 2 max plans and extra usage past 10 days, getting limited almost 1h in a 5h session. Reading about the extra "safe guards" might be the nail on the coffin.

New comment by audiala in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

audiala — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:49:05 +0000

Is it the technology you hate or some of its applications (or both)?

New comment by audiala in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

audiala — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:02:01 +0000

It doesn't really work. I tried my website and it shows up, while definitely being built after 2023. There is a mistake in the metadata of the page that shows it as from 2011.

https://audiala.com/changelog

New comment by audiala in "Chatterbox TTS"

audiala — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:17:39 +0000

What is the current state of the art for open source multilingual TTS? I have found Kokoro to be great as English as well, but am still searching for a good solution for French, Japanese, German...

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

audiala — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:21:32 +0000

Nice, I will check your solution too. I would also love to have NotebookLM available via API, it could be nice to generate podcast-like guides.

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

audiala — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:11:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing. This type of storytelling is what I want to achieve, even if I am not there yet. But I am confident this is achievable already.

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

audiala — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:08:45 +0000

We rely on AI for most of the content and correct if mistakes are spotted, but they seem quite rare. 99% of the content is directly coming from our AI pipeline.

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

audiala — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:33:35 +0000

Love this source, didn't know about it!

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

audiala — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:25:06 +0000

I just noticed that you run https://allaboutberlin.com. My first website was https://toutsurprague.fr in 2008, similar ideas :)

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

audiala — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:21:55 +0000

Yes, it's definitely a cool project! Sometimes it's hard to stop reading and listening at all there is to learn and instead code... I hope to have the itineraries with directions done by end of January.

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

audiala — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:38:10 +0000

It’s a RAG pipeline based on content from wikipedia and relevant websites. Getting the list of relevant places might the trickiest part of the pipeline but for this I settled with a not-perfect solution where users can manually request missing places.

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

audiala — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:25:54 +0000

I have built https://audiala.com which creates audioguides for historical and touristic places in cities all over the world. It brings a bit over $500/month in in-app purchases.

I got the idea in 2023 as I was solo traveling Florence, Italy and thought it would be much nicer to listen to stories about the monuments around me instead of having to read a guide. There is also so much more to be done: next, my plan is to create personalised itineraries based on your preferences, starting point, etc.

I tried paid marketing but found much more effective the SEO I have done on the website, and users seem to share with their friends and come back, which makes me happy.

New comment by audiala in "Show HN: Rust based AWS Lambda Logs Viewer (TUI)"

audiala — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 05:21:37 +0000

Same for me. Editing the config.toml didn't help either.

New comment by audiala in "Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting"

audiala — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:38:59 +0000

This is fantastic, thank you!

New comment by audiala in "STORM: Get a Wikipedia-like report on your topic"

audiala — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:22:58 +0000

Indeed, but as you increase the complexity, you increase the chance of failure, and increase the costs as well, even if those are quite minimal in comparison with the time a human would have to spend on this to do that manually.

New comment by audiala in "STORM: Get a Wikipedia-like report on your topic"

audiala — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:42:43 +0000

We use an approach inspired by this project to generate high level pages about city POIs such as this one: https://audiala.com/en/united-states/philadelphia/edgar-alla...

It's far from being perfect yet, sometimes too shallow and lacking a guiding thread, but after few iterations we believe it should offer all the information a visitor might need when planning a visit.

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?"

audiala — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:34:03 +0000

I like the idea but it's "hallucinating" a lot. An example that I often use is to search for a building not too well know in a small city. If the information (such as architect, building date) is online, but the content generated is wrong, it fails my test.

New comment by audiala in "Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?"

audiala — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:27:36 +0000

I built Audiala [1][2][3], which is a platform that creates virtual tour guides that goes with you anywhere in the world. While the content is mostly static now, the pipeline is there to make it entirely personal for each user, once I figured out how to deal with the API costs.

The next steps are to adapt the content based on realtime user feedback or queries like "What happened on this street during the French Revolution?" or "Tell me more about this building’s history." as well as offering step by step itinerary suggestions.

I believe it's now possible to build an Augmented Reality solution, where you leave your phone in your pocket, put some airpods and you listen or converse with your personal tour guide and fully immerse yourself in history.

[1] https://audiala.com

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6446038181?uo=4

[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.audiala.au...

New comment by audiala in "Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps"

audiala — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:24:05 +0000

Thanks, I like the design of your site better than the other alternatives I found and it came exactly when I needed it. As other have mentioned, a way to run it locally would be great to not have to deploy live or create a tunnel in order to test it.

New comment by audiala in "Wikidata, with 12B facts, can ground LLMs to improve their factuality"

audiala — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:29:57 +0000

Part of the issue is to select the right Wikipedia article. Wikidata offers a way to know for sure that you query the LLM with the right data. Also the wikipedia txtai dataset is for english only.