Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia

by if-curious on 6/20/2025, 9:15:15 PM with 31 comments

  • by albert_e on 6/21/2025, 4:04:23 PM

    The first track i got was an audio summary of "philosophical razors"

    I assumed each "track" is an 5-minute audio summary (LLM+TTS) of a random text ARTICLE from Wikipedia.

    Apparently I was mistaken and these are actually random MEDIA uploaded to Wikipedia.

    Now I have an idea for a weekend project :)

    EDIT:

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philosophical_Razors...

    Apparently it was not a summary but the full article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor

    EDIT2:

    Index of all spoken articles on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoken_articles

    EDIT3:

    Here is my 10-minute vibe-coded implementation of "Wikipedia Radio" for spoken articles (no LLM or TTS at runtime here) -- https://d3rfhwexohg7ag.cloudfront.net/wikipedia-radio.html

  • by jamilton on 6/21/2025, 7:32:39 PM

    A lot of the music seems to be reuploaded from freemusicarchive.org, hadn't heard of that before but it seems cool.

  • by ghastmaster on 6/21/2025, 4:43:44 AM

    I skipped 2 and landed on the 3rd audio piece and loved it. I dunno why. It is totally my jam for the time being. lost the wiki link, but here is the youtube link. "lil pants" :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxcXVqgKd9c

    WTF: That link landed me on something else after this comment that I am totally loving as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPu4XfWkRvc&list=OLAK5uy_kNl...

    Never know what rabbit hole you'll find yourself in with HN. Bless y'all.

  • by RheingoldRiver on 6/20/2025, 11:22:05 PM

    Why does it play an artificial voice saying "Number 9" over and over in between clips in Revolution 9 mode? it's super annoying especially given the clips are shorter

    But this is really cool! I've gotten some animal sounds, weather sounds, music, a small kid talking about a soccer match in Spanish, "evil laugh", political speeches in several languages, and a telephone ringing. only pressed skip a couple times for some really unpleasant noises

  • by btbuildem on 6/21/2025, 5:26:04 PM

    Ahh I thought it would be TTS reading of various wikipedia articles and I got excited :/

  • by saretup on 6/21/2025, 2:44:11 AM

    I get why you added the static noise sound between clips but that gets annoying real quick.

  • by washmyelbows on 6/21/2025, 5:27:22 PM

    wow - I've quickly found 2 songs that are better than anything I've discovered in weeks

  • by mycatisblack on 6/21/2025, 8:52:09 AM

    Cool!

    Had some Japanese song pass by and all the letters were vertically arranged (as is tradition), which made it impossible to find out what artist it was.

  • by guerrilla on 6/20/2025, 11:52:42 PM

    Uh wow. This is actual bubble-bursting technology. I love this. Getting StumbleUpon vibes. Also, crazy that so many of these things are actually good... Maybe humanity is not so bad after all? Hmm. Food for thought. :D

  • by komali2 on 6/21/2025, 5:09:06 AM

    Very cool project, I'm jealous I didn't think of it!

  • by Tokkemon on 6/21/2025, 1:42:47 AM

    Number 9. Number 9. Number 9....

  • by mbil on 6/20/2025, 9:41:26 PM

    From the title I expected this would be like talk radio (like NotebookLM style) discussion of random wiki pages.

  • by laszlojamf on 6/21/2025, 12:24:06 AM

    I love this, and I don’t mean to throw any shade on it, but this is kind of thing I’d the best to come out of the ”vibe coding” revolution. I don’t know if this was vibe coded, but what I mean to say is that there are a million things that you just never get around to doing, and LLMs help you to actually _realize_ little cool ideas like this.