cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34745855

Made by my Discord buddy "la .samflir."
Reposted with permission

Made by my Discord buddy "la .samflir."
Reposted with permission

Lyrics by DeepSeek R1
Music by Riffusion
Cover by Google ImageFX

The voice isn't faithful, but I like how it turned out musically... that is, after a few regens and prompt changes. 🙃

Made using Google ImageFX.
Prompt: "Children's book illustration, in the style of Roald Dahl. The textless picture is mostly black and white. It depicts a young girl with short red hair and a black dress frowning, as she stands next to a red front door, and, with a thick paintbrush, paints the bottom half of the door black while holding a metallic paint bucket."

Inspired by The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black. Originally posted as a "name that song" challenge, but it seems a lot of people really liked the picture (as evidenced by how many upvotes it got).

Another easy one, I'd suppose.

This is an app for iOS and Android by ElevenLabs, where you can import a web article or ebook, and listen to it with some of its text-to-speech voices.

I've tried it out for a few hours so far and so far it's pretty OK. However, I did notice a couple of problems that could be ironed out:

• When using a PDF, ElevenReader will read out all of the text in the document, including page numbers and repeated headings. I couldn't find a way to disable this, so I just resorted to using an ePub version of my book instead.
• The Lily voice will sometimes drop the first one or two syllables of a sentence, especially after it has paused for a few seconds. I tested a few other voices, and they didn't seem to have this problem.

Anyway it's nice that an app like this is being offered for free and without ads. Apparently a paid tier will be introduced later, but I hope this isn't at the expense of any of the free features. (It would be even better for an open source alternative of comparable quality to be developed in case, but I don't know any.)

(Feel free to crosspost this to other relevant communities! :)

Original title: What Actual Aliens Might Look Like

Summary by Gemini (slightly edited): This video is about the possibility of alien life. It discusses how life on Earth is incredibly diverse and exists in the strangest and most extreme places. The video then uses our imagination and real science to travel to three possible worlds, each more alien than the next. The first world is the ice hell of the planet Ipa, where life has evolved to be black to make use of the weak infrared light. The second world is the gas giant Nimbus, where life exists in the form of cloud plankton and sky whales. The third world is the moon Monier, where life has evolved to use ammonia instead of water and to incorporate magnetized minerals into its biology. The video concludes by saying that scientific speculation is fun but also useful, and that it can give us ideas about what we should look out for when searching for alien life.