i've been building this over the last two weeks, it first started as a reader for standard ebooks (https://standardebooks.org/), with clean typography, progress tracking, and nice deep linking (try clicking on a paragraph to create a mark and copy it to your clipboard)
but i think i really unlocked something when i discovered the amazing recordings on https://librivox.org, i've been spending the last few days frying my macbook's gpu to do neural alignment so that you can sync an audiobook with its text counterpart, to make switching between the text and the audio seamless
it's a ctc forced-alignment over the whole audiobook, keyed to the same paragraph anchors i used for progress tracking and linking
i think it's really cool? let me know
Really nice, listened to a bit of Dracula and didn't expect to be so hooked :)
Apart from that, on mobile I'm having some troubles:
- scrolling at any time stops the audio and the audio will only start again at the paragraph start, not where it left off - the paragraph doesn't scroll automatically if it's longer than the screen height. I can't scroll down because of issue 1 (I like to read+listen) - I can't seem to click into a paragraph/sentence to continue reading from there.
Again, well done! I love these kinds of projects.