The AI turns his research papers into audiobooks for $0.65 a paper

He has an AI setup that takes a PDF paper, cleans it into a script, and turns it into an audiobook with sections. It costs him about $0.65 a paper on average.

$0.65

How it works

Feeds in a PDF paper
The tool cleans it into a script, dropping crud like footnotes and repeating headers
Converts the script into an audiobook with sections

Why it’s worth knowing

A messy PDF with footnotes and repeating headers comes out the other side as a sectioned audiobook, for about 65 cents a paper.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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