ekoAcademic
Co-authors: Aidan McConnel, Shaan Amin
link: https://www.echoecho.org
Aidan, Shaan and I wanted to have an interactive-audio version of the arXiv to listen and discuss papers during our commute.
ekoAcademic is a small tool that generates short, accessible audio summaries of recent academic papers. It's a simple idea: you don't always have time to dive into a full paper, but you can listen to short summaries while walking, commuting or doing chores, and then decide if you want to dig deeper. We've also added a functionality for conversations and verbal Q&A so you can ask questions and understand recent literature in a conversational way. This works in many languages. This means that when you interact with the audio summary, you can ask it questions in your own language, and it should automatically answer in the same language.
How it works
We extract newly released papers (mirroring the arXiv categories), process/summarise them and then generate a short audio clip for each paper.
We then have several GPT-realtime sessions designed for Q&A, or summarisation of sets of papers. By allowing microphone access you can always stop it and ask questions (in any language!).
Non-interactive podcasts are stored, so once one person listens to one, they no longer need to be generated again for anyone else.
This means that it is relatively cheap for us to generate new podcasts, and we can do it in real-time.
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