Aligning 800 audiobooks (8k hours) to text in 6 days, no LLM in the loop
tale.fyiThis is how the story will feel to read.A−A+autoAligning 800 audiobooks (8,000 hours) to text in 6 days, no LLM in the loopsamuel cole follow non-fictionscroll plz ↓On July 14th, I started a git repo called tale. Several months before I had built a simple prototype for an old manuscript from college that I unearthed called the man with the patchwork heart. The thesis was simple, both when I wrote it in 2009, and today in 2026: could literature work on the web?
- ▪tale.fyiThis is how the story will feel to read.A−A+autoAligning 800 audiobooks (8,000 hours) to text in 6 days, no LLM in the loopsamuel cole follow non-fictionscroll plz ↓On July 14th, I started a git repo called tale.
- ▪Several months before I had built a simple prototype for an old manuscript from college that I unearthed called the man with the patchwork heart.
- ▪The thesis was simple, both when I wrote it in 2009, and today in 2026: could literature work on the web?
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| Original publisher | tale.fyi |
| Canonical URL | https://tale.fyi/@sam/aligning-800-audiobooks-8-000-hours-to-text-in-6-days-no-llm-in-the-loop?from=hn |
| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:58:58 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-04T13:05:41.469Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-04T13:05:41.469Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | X34pUF97bqE7 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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tale.fyiThis is how the story will feel to read.A−A+autoAligning 800 audiobooks (8,000 hours) to text in 6 days, no LLM in the loopsamuel cole follow non-fictionscroll plz ↓On July 14th, I started a git repo called tale. Several months before I had built a simple prototype for an old manuscript from college that I unearthed called the man with the patchwork heart. The thesis was simple, both when I wrote it in 2009, and today in 2026: could literature work on the web? In addition to my own writing, which I only have so much of, I knew the corpus of Standard Ebooks could fill in thousands of public domain works, and if I could get them all working well on a website, with a beautiful reading experience, I could prove that the browser could be a great place to read literature.
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