April 2024 - socialmedia@lists.ogf.org

[socialmedia] New podcast with Greg
by Greg Newby 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

Hi, Team. This is another podcast about audiobooks. It's nicely done! The main link is: https://link.cohostpodcasting.com/38b93284-10cb-4566-a47b-2c4566e12676?d=eH… There is some text below you could use as desired: ----- Forwarded message from Daria Kroupoderova <dkroupoderova(a)we-worldwide.com> ----- From: Daria Kroupoderova <dkroupoderova(a)we-worldwide.com> To: Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> CC: WE_HayeteGallotExecComms <WE_HayeteGallotExecComms(a)we-worldwide.com>, Lin Yang <liyang2(a)microsoft.com>, Lauren Cutchin <laurenp(a)we-worldwide.com> Subject: RE: Pivotal Podcast Follow Up Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:34:51 +0000 Hi Greg, Stepping in for Lauren here and sharing that the episode is now live and available on all major podcasting platforms! Here's the post from Hayete on LinkedIn, promoting the podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hayetegallot_literature-pivotal-ai-activity-…. We also have some social copy drafted for you if you'd like to promote this on your social. Please edit as you see fit: My first experience with eBooks was “Alice in Wonderland” when I was a student at University of Albany. I had never even heard of Project Gutenberg, but I immediately understood the potential for electronic books that could be searched and shared on computers connected to a network. Today, Project Gutenberg is translating the power of eBooks into audiobooks with a little help from AI. Microsoft [TAG] technologies have helped us create 5,000 new computer-generated audiobooks. Along the way, we’ve experienced massive improvements in how the AI brings text to life through a much more natural reading style. You can hear that the pacing gets faster when it's an exciting section. You can hear when there's dialogue. You can hear the natural pause at the end of a paragraph or a chapter. You can hear different characters. With the power of AI and the cloud, we’ve been able to accomplish this much faster than we could just a few years ago. Now we’re envisioning what’s possible. With AI, we’re able to ask questions we never would have dreamed of before. Can we make our entire library queryable? Can we allow anyone to create an audiobook using their own voice as narrator? If you want to hear more about how Project Gutenberg is using AI to bring literature to life via audio, check out the latest episode of Pivotal with Hayete Gallot [TAG}, where I offer a look at our origin story, our long history with AI, and our plans for the future. https://link.cohostpodcasting.com/6f6ae657-637f-4229-b971-577a114ac8a6?d=e2… Thank you again for your participation in Pivotal! All the best, Daria + WE Team

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[socialmedia] Website down
by Christine Bell 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Hi Greg, Our website is down again and new books are not posting correctly on our Facebook page. I've left a short post on both pages advising there's a problem and we're working on getting it fixed ASAP. Kind regards, Christine

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[socialmedia] eReader trial version
by Greg Newby 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Hi friends. Here's something that might be worth putting on the feeds: Project Gutenberg and CogniLore team up to revolutionize digital reading with proLibro eReader trial. Try it now and share your feedback for a chance to win a $15 gift card! https://www.cognilore.com/prolibro-trial-version/ I have a longer version for the May newsletter, in case you want some additional wording or context: In April, Project Gutenberg met with the executives at CogniLore for a comprehensive demonstration of their flagship eReader platform called proLibro. Among the free eBooks available through the application were a selection of popular titles from Project Gutenberg. CogniLore was successful in showing us how the content could be “brought to life” through the additions of interactive features and functionalities such as annotations, advanced searching, favourites, text to speech, and more. Project Gutenberg and CogniLore have agreed to continue the relationship moving forward as we both strive to share lessons learned about emerging technologies and different ways of rendering free digital content accessible to all. This innovative solution has potential to revolutionize digital publishing and the reader experience. CogniLore is excited to announce the release of the proLibro eReader trial software, for the Microsoft Windows platform. This offers access to a selection of popular Project Gutenberg titles in an enhanced format. Share your feedback in a simple survey to shape the future of digital reading and stand a chance to win a $15 gift card! Your valuable feedback on the tool will inform CogniLore’s technology roadmap and ensure that the product responds well to the needs of readers. Find information about the free trial here: https://www.cognilore.com/prolibro-trial-version/ Thanks as always! ~ Greg

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[socialmedia] Some interesting work using PG
by Eric Hellman 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

A friend of mine is doing some interesting data analysis of PG texts. Might be interesting for our social media feeds. http://carrels.distantreader.org/ Eric Hellman

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Re: [socialmedia] ibiblio outage persists; www.gutenberg.org functional issues & new postings
by Greg Newby 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Things seem back to normal, and I've re-enabled hourly pushes of new titles. Let me know if any further problems are observed. ~ Greg On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 10:33:17PM -0700, Greg Newby wrote: > Hi folks. The ibiblio site had a name server problem this (Tuesday) afternoon and www.gutenberg.org is not recovered yet. > > Hopefully they'll fix it on Wednesday morning (EDT). > > I've temporarily halted the hourly run of 'dopush,' so any files published will remain queued until things are running again. There might be some cleanup, because any new books added during the outage could not be added to the catalog or have their generated formats made. > > I've put a notice on the main page of www.gutenberg.org in the meantime. > ~ Greg >

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[socialmedia] Website down
by Christine Bell 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Hi Greg, Our website has been down for a few hours. Is there a time line for getting it back up? Kind regards, Christine

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[socialmedia] Nice blog post
by Greg Newby 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

This is worthy of amplification on social media, I think: https://blog.pgdp.net/2024/04/01/my-distributed-proofreaders-journey/ Maybe you already saw it on the DP feed? Thanks, Greg

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