Dan Hilton

Trying not to be ordinary and predictable, but in an algorithmic discoverable manner.

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

Seems to be quite a few retail items outages at the moment….

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

@jukesie Waves hand to help with Bristol civic tech Meetup.

[Neil Williams @neillyneil]

HOW EFFING GOOD IS THIS? Every word of it. Well done Audree and @PublicDigitalHQ - and more to come in a series on new operating models: https://t.co/ovFeE7mQGI

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

These aren’t too bad. It’s getting quite impressive.

[AK @_akhaliq]

Large-Scale Automatic Audiobook Creation

paper page: https://t.co/4gWOZFVxk3

An audiobook can dramatically improve a work of literature's accessibility and improve reader engagement. However, audiobooks can take hundreds of hours of human effort to create, edit, and publish. In this work, we present a system that can automatically generate high-quality audiobooks from online e-books. In particular, we leverage recent advances in neural text-to-speech to create and release thousands of human-quality, open-license audiobooks from the Project Gutenberg e-book collection. Our method can identify the proper subset of e-book content to read for a wide collection of diversely structured books and can operate on hundreds of books in parallel. Our system allows users to customize an audiobook's speaking speed and style, emotional intonation, and can even match a desired voice using a small amount of sample audio. This work contributed over five thousand open-license audiobooks and an interactive demo that allows users to quickly create their own customized audiobooks.

[Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton]

This is a brilliant and simple idea with a measurable benefit. #FundTheBBCItsActuallyGood

https://t.co/p2kxhiQm5n

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

It me @[email protected] obvs

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

I’d love to be able to the equivalent for working in HMG departments 🤣

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Working at startup is basically like “the eng team uses Github, product is transitioning from Notion to Confluence but some things are still in Google Docs, marketing likes a mix of Asana and Clickup, but make sure to keep Airtable updated. Do NOT use Evernote without approval

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

Keytar!

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

@reddavis I think it’s probably a documentation failure rather than the food is bad or kitchen is filthy. But still, own goal.

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

Worrying this was on my places to visit…

[Bath Food. @BathFood]

Milk Bun was given a food hygiene rating of 2/5 (Improvement Necessary) on 14th March 2023. https://t.co/cidpwoUA6r

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

@JonJHilton Your nephew says sea of thieves. 🤷‍♂️

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

@JonJHilton New mandolrian alert

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

@JonJHilton Your nephew should have told you, sorry.

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

@JonJHilton

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

@sneakerslutkat Sorry forgot the central one shut ; primark?

[Kate @sneakerslutkat]

Can anyone recommend any good text to speech apps please?
My father has just had a tracheotomy & needs to be able to communicate at the hospital & is justifiably frustrated.
He's on IOS

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

It’s like no one remembers the performance platform and https://t.co/sW5j6eHFz8 🤔

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

The architect of the Covid dashboard has just won an MBE.

It was a revolution in open data, ending Sage’s monopoly. So why was the project disbanded, rather than rolled out across the NHS and government?

My blog:- https://t.co/MKIWl6GDCA

[Dan Hilton @danhilton]

Slipknot kinda day.