It's been quite a while since I posted an update here about Storyteller (quite nearly a year, in fact)! I go into this in more depth in the linked blog post, but Storyteller is a self-hosted, open...
It's been quite a while since I posted an update here about Storyteller (quite nearly a year, in fact)! I go into this in more depth in the linked blog post, but Storyteller is a self-hosted, open source platform for automatically aligning audiobooks and ebooks, and reading ebooks with aligned audio. Previous discussion here.
Since I last made a post about it, Storyteller has undergone several changes, comprised of several hundred commits and nearly 100 releases. Our community on Matrix has over 150 members, and we've added a Discord server and a Discourse forum. We've added support for hardware accelerated transcription, with both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, and added support for several languages other than English. Oh, and an Android app!
And now we're on PikaPods, and I'm amped about it! I've gotten quite a lot of requests over the past year from folks who are interested in running Storyteller, but don't have the technical experience to run a self-hosted app. Networking, as it turns out, continues to be a pain! Sometimes those folks have buckled down and set themselves to learning a new skill, which warms my heart, but often the hurdles are just too high, and instead they end up being unable to use Storyteller at all. That stinks, especially because making reading more accessible is one of Storyteller's primary goals. Adding Storyteller to PikaPods means that with the click of a button to have access to your own personal Storyteller instance, and you can start aligning books right away.
As always, I'll be around if anyone has questions!
Neat, congrats! For those wondering, I have been using pikapods for a little while and so far it has been a pretty low friction and solid experience. The one thing that I did do myself is create a...
Neat, congrats!
For those wondering, I have been using pikapods for a little while and so far it has been a pretty low friction and solid experience.
The one thing that I did do myself is create a backup function for each pod that I am running because that is not something pikapods has yet. Although I think they are planning to add it eventually.
Which for me involved opening up the files of the pod through sftp (an option available for pods that use file storage) and creating a little bash script that pulls the files. This runs as a cron job from my VPS, but you can probably do something similar with the windows scheduler to backup files locally.
If you are not all that attached to the data on the pod (because you already have your books locally) then this is an optional step.
Also, I haven't used pikapods for really intensive critical stuff. They offer a nextcloud instance for example but I don't know how that will hold up over time.
Thanks! And thanks for your thoughts on PikaPods. It's relatively new to me, but working with them to get Storyteller added to their app list has been a breeze; the folks that work there seem...
Thanks! And thanks for your thoughts on PikaPods. It's relatively new to me, but working with them to get Storyteller added to their app list has been a breeze; the folks that work there seem great.
That's a great idea, setting up a backup script for your pods!
It's been quite a while since I posted an update here about Storyteller (quite nearly a year, in fact)! I go into this in more depth in the linked blog post, but Storyteller is a self-hosted, open source platform for automatically aligning audiobooks and ebooks, and reading ebooks with aligned audio. Previous discussion here.
Since I last made a post about it, Storyteller has undergone several changes, comprised of several hundred commits and nearly 100 releases. Our community on Matrix has over 150 members, and we've added a Discord server and a Discourse forum. We've added support for hardware accelerated transcription, with both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, and added support for several languages other than English. Oh, and an Android app!
And now we're on PikaPods, and I'm amped about it! I've gotten quite a lot of requests over the past year from folks who are interested in running Storyteller, but don't have the technical experience to run a self-hosted app. Networking, as it turns out, continues to be a pain! Sometimes those folks have buckled down and set themselves to learning a new skill, which warms my heart, but often the hurdles are just too high, and instead they end up being unable to use Storyteller at all. That stinks, especially because making reading more accessible is one of Storyteller's primary goals. Adding Storyteller to PikaPods means that with the click of a button to have access to your own personal Storyteller instance, and you can start aligning books right away.
As always, I'll be around if anyone has questions!
Neat, congrats!
For those wondering, I have been using pikapods for a little while and so far it has been a pretty low friction and solid experience.
The one thing that I did do myself is create a backup function for each pod that I am running because that is not something pikapods has yet. Although I think they are planning to add it eventually.
Which for me involved opening up the files of the pod through sftp (an option available for pods that use file storage) and creating a little bash script that pulls the files. This runs as a cron job from my VPS, but you can probably do something similar with the windows scheduler to backup files locally.
If you are not all that attached to the data on the pod (because you already have your books locally) then this is an optional step.
Also, I haven't used pikapods for really intensive critical stuff. They offer a nextcloud instance for example but I don't know how that will hold up over time.
Thanks! And thanks for your thoughts on PikaPods. It's relatively new to me, but working with them to get Storyteller added to their app list has been a breeze; the folks that work there seem great.
That's a great idea, setting up a backup script for your pods!