I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech

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Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine.For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model.At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of.It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach.I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg catalog (it's about 70GB of dirty XML), cleaned it, put it into my database, and created a browsable catalog. When

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Website: listenly.io/gutenberg