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A US judge rules that Amazon must face a proposed class action lawsuit by independent authors accusing it of monopolizing the audiobook retail market (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

Today I've been painting a fantasy oil painting commission and listening to The Silmarillion on audiobook... have I reached peak nerd?

Any #SailfishOS users out here know how to make #StreetComplete usable again by either disabling the any-audio-interrupting plop sounds or teaching SailfishOS to just keep playing audio if another app makes sound?

Disabling Plop/Touch sounds in StreetComplete
StreetComplete is a very cool app that makes adding data to OpenStreetMap quite fun. However, on SailfishOS there is one thing that makes it super annoying to use: Whenever one fulfils a task / answers a question, the icon vanishes with a PLOP sound, which then stops any other audio such ss the Sailfish media player. This effectively prevents listening to music or an audiobook during mapping which is indescribably annoying. Some links: from my post: A couple of other people having big probl…

HiFiTTS-2: A Large-Scale High Bandwidth Speech Dataset
Ryan Langman, Xuesong Yang, Paarth Neekhara, Shehzeen Hussain, Edresson Casanova, Evelina Bakhturina, Jason Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04152

HiFiTTS-2: A Large-Scale High Bandwidth Speech Dataset
This paper introduces HiFiTTS-2, a large-scale speech dataset designed for high-bandwidth speech synthesis. The dataset is derived from LibriVox audiobooks, and contains approximately 36.7k hours of English speech for 22.05 kHz training, and 31.7k hours for 44.1 kHz training. We present our data processing pipeline, including bandwidth estimation, segmentation, text preprocessing, and multi-speaker detection. The dataset is accompanied by detailed utterance and audiobook metadata generated by o…