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TLDR: People contribute their leftover TTS credits, I turn them into free audiobooks. We've processed over 10,000,000 words so far.

Hi all, my project (https://projectgutentag.com/) makes free audiobooks. It uses leftover text-to-speech credits. People with Elevenlabs accounts can automatically contribute their monthly leftover credits to create free audiobooks.

We've done about 10,000,000 words so far.

The ultimate goal is to make the world's greatest literature accessible to everyone by building the largest open, free, and multilingual library of audiobooks and spoken literature.

A few things I sweated: contributors trust the site with an API key, so keys are encrypted at rest, decrypted only during a synthesis call, never logged; contributors set their own spending cap and can pause/revoke anytime. The backend allocates work by whoever has available credit and stitches chunks back into full audiobooks. You can enable auto-contribute so in the final 6 hours of your billing period/month your leftover credits will automatically be calculated and used to generate new audiobooks.

Browse, listen, or sign up here - https://projectgutentag.com/

Still improving the narration quality so feedback very welcome!

Some questions have been asked about this scene in the 1979 TTSS series so I created this post to clarify. When in Czechoslovakia Jim receives a real Czech CZ 50 pistol from a contact in the shop. It is given to him in a toy gun box.

He then goes into the bathroom to check it over. Whilst doing this he wraps an elastic band around the handgrip, some shooting experts claim this improves grip (in slippery conditions).

In what might be an Easter Egg to the novel Jim holds the gun in a style Smiley describes in the book:

“There was a piece of Circus folklore which demanded that he should lay his index finger along the barrel and pull the trigger with his second. But when he tried it the sensation was ridiculous and he forgot about it.”

Hope this helps!