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Hey folks, I'm the developer working on Blogs Are Back. WakaTime has me clocked in at over 900 hours on this project so far...

If CORS weren't an issue, it could've been done in 1/10th of that time. But if that were the case, there would've already been tons of web-based RSS readers available.

Anyway, the goal of this project is to help foster interest in indie blogs and help a bit with discovery. Feel free to submit your blog if you'd like!

If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

I'm the developer of Blogs Are Back. Thanks for posting! If anyone has any questions or has any issues with the site, I'm here to help.

Does anyone have a good method for avoiding accidentally accepting an "upgrade" notification from Sequoia to Tahoe?

With the potential to set off the installation flow with the wrong click (when its being shown over-and-over again), it makes me anxious and feel like I'm not even in control of my own computer anymore.

For the time being, I've installed a management profile to defer updates, disabled the Settings options for automatic updates, and used "Quiet You!" to try and keep the notifications at bay.

But the maximum deferral time for profiles is 90 days, so if anyone knows of a better solution or work-around, please let me know

Hey — just pushed a big update that adds an (opt-in) frontend to test the API

For now, there's just a textarea for input (so you'll have to copy the `.txt` contents) — but it's a lot easier than trying to finagle into a `curl` request

Let me know if you have any issues!

Ok, here's a command that works.

I'm new to actually commenting on HN as opposed to just lurking, so I hope this formatting works..

  cat your_file.txt | python3 -c 'import sys, json; print(json.dumps({"input": sys.stdin.read()}))' | curl -X POST http://localhost:5123/v1/audio/speech \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d @- \
    --output speech.wav

Just replace the `your_file.txt` with.. well, you get it.

This'll hopefully handle any potential issues you'd have with quotes or other symbols breaking the JSON input.

Let me know how it goes!

Oh and you might want to change `python3` to `python` depending on your setup.

This API wrapper was initially made to support a particular use case where someone's running, say, Open WebUI or AnythingLLM or some other local LLM frontend.

A lot of these frontends have an option for using OpenAI's TTS API, and some of them allow you to specify the URL for that endpoint, allowing for "drop-in replacements" like this project.

So the speech generation endpoint in the API is designed to fill that niche. However, its usage is pretty basic and there are curl statements in the README for testing your setup.

Anyway, to get to your actual question, let me see if I can whip something up. I'll edit this comment with the command if I can swing it.

In the meantime, can I assume your local text files are actual `.txt` files?