Show HN: Tales – AI Podcasts for All Your Books
We’re the team behind Tales.so
Over the past few days we’ve been hacking on Tales.so [1] - An AI podcast for all your books.
Some features that we’re most excited about are —
- AI podcasts for 10K+ books
- Choose b/w podcast styles, i.e. — single person, or 2 people podcast
- Evolving AI powered Book recommendations, based on your interests and listening history
- Book reading lists of successful people, e.g. Marc Andreessen's [2], Elon Musk's [3]
- Chat with Book Author AI Avatar
Why Tales.so?
We were re-watching The Matrix and Chuck (TV Show) over the Thanksgiving break, and were struck by lightning when we saw the — “I know Kung-Fu moment” [4][5][6]. Thought, it might be cool and possible to build something similar, with AI at the helm. So, we built Tales.so for you to try it out.
Where to next?
A few ideas:
- Crowdsourced podcast script editing, wikipedia style,
- Funny mode, interactive modes for each podcast
- Short videos to expand beyond Podcasts
We’re going to dramatically improve the audio quality for the 2 people podcast in the coming week, but didn’t want to wait to show what we have already till then.
We’d love to hear what you think!
Arpit, Charvi
[1] Web app — https://www.tales.so?ref=news.ycombinator.com
[2] Marc Andreessen's Book Recommendations - https://www.tales.so/collection/marc-andreessen-book-recomme...
[3] Elon Musk's Book Recommendations - https://www.tales.so/collection/elon-musk-book-recommendatio...
[4] I Know Kung Fu (Matrix 1999) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrzgxUhnYjY
[5] Chuck gets the intersect / First Flash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snIO7L6ulmo
[6] Chuck - I know Kung Fu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWciCU97bdQ