(no music) #1115 - Kara’s picture-frame arrived - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (8th May 2024)

Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name's Jason Newland.

Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. So what is it? It's Wednesday, the 8th of May 2024. It is three minutes past 8pm.

It's slightly, slightly earlier than normal. And earlier, later rather. Slightly later.

Where did I get earlier from? I wasn't really concentrating was I? I need to concentrate more. I've realised that there are people that I talk to on my little walks with Finny. Who I've spoken to before, but I just don't remember them.

And I think I might repeat myself with them. And they might think that, well, they might think lots of things, but it's not because I'm repeating myself. It's because I genuinely don't remember speaking to them.

Or what I've said, because I don't remember what I said to anyone. I don't, I don't recall really what I've talked about during these recordings. However, even though I don't make, take much notice of what I've said, if someone comes up to me and says, you said this, and they say something that's wrong, that I hadn't said, my brain clicks into action.

And I suddenly remember the conversation word for word. Isn't it weird? So if I'm contradicted, or accused or something of saying something that I haven't said, I'm talking going back decades. There's certain things I can remember from decades ago.

Things that, just even things that my dad said at a dinner table, you know, the 90s, stuff like that. It's just, it's weird. It's weird that I remember these things.

So today, let's have a look. I've got some, just to remind you, Q&A Friday is this Friday again. And I've got a few questions asked.

So I'm not going to tell you what they are. But Oh, yeah. Cool.

So I've got some questions already up there. So if you've listened to any of the previous Q&A Fridays, and I might go on a bit. Unlike the normal, Let Me Bore You To Sleep recordings, which usually very precise, concise, and other words that sound similar.

I think I managed to kind of come back to the subject a bit. I hope I do. I mean, I hope I do in a kind of small way.

I don't really care. But I kind of hope I've answered the questions because I do intend to. I'm not up at night worrying about it, to be honest with you.

But I do. You know, I've asked people to ask me questions. So it's, it's out of respect to people taking the effort to do that I should be able to answer.

And I hope I have. Because I take things very seriously. This is a, this is my career.

Career. Well, it's not really is it? Nevermind. You know, if nothing else, you know, if I was to pass away, and you can put some tributes and just say, at least he tried.

He gave it a go. Didn't succeed, but he, you know, yeah, he had a good old go, had to put a little bit of effort in, mildly, milder, that he put the smallest amount of effort in that he could possibly put in to succeed. And it didn't happen.

But nevermind. You know, he turned up sometimes. It's that's what I want to be remembered for.

Just occasionally turning up. That's the most I can hope I think. So yeah, Q&A Friday, this Friday, it's Wednesday today.

So I will be recording that on Friday, late afternoon, probably early evening, late afternoon, I don't know. And releasing it like I do every other recording up first thing in the morning, Saturday morning. So most of my recordings are generally at least started to be uploaded by six, normally they're uploaded by six o'clock in the morning.

Of course, that's not always going to be the case, because sometimes I might wake up a little bit later. But I try and get them done. Because it's, I quite enjoy having the routine, to be honest, make the recording in the evening, wave goodbye to the laptop, you know, just shut everything off, have something to eat, watch a little bit of telly, let my food digest, and then I go to bed, take him for a walk, go to bed, maybe do do some exercise while the dinner's being cooked.

So I do some weights, maybe on the punch bag and stuff. Don't do weights on the punch bag, balance on the punch bag. You know, I have a little bit of physical movement, which is nice.

I get the physical movement of my legs when I walk with him. And I realized someone's probably thinking, we know how walking works. We know it involves physical movement of the legs.

I'm not trying to explain what walking is and be saying, my lower body gets a degree of movement during the day, but my upper body, not so much probably. So it's good to do the weights and feel, it's just, I don't know, it's nice to feel the muscles or where the muscles used to be, where the muscles used to be. It's nice to just pretend that they're there now.

It's good. So I want to say thank you to Cara. Just to let Cara know that you're, and I'll put this as the title of the recording, your picture frame or my picture frame has been received, got delivered today.

I thought I would put it in as a headliner. So that would be a nice surprise. Well, I think it'd be a nice thing to do just to say thank you in the headline.

The headline? The title. It's like a headline, isn't it? Kind of. So basically, Cara has created, she has painted a picture for me and she's, she's sending it, but because she lives in, I think, the Antarctic or somewhere.

So it takes a little while to get here. It's, I think it's being delivered by Carrier Pigeon. So the, the frame got delivered first and I took ages to, I got unpacked it and I thought, okay, so I'm, well, it's a frame, so I figured it out.

And, but I was trying to take it out because the glass, the glass on it was all covered in black bits. And I thought, well, how am I supposed to see the picture? So I took the glass off and put the thing back in, but then everything falls out the front. I'm like, well, that's not going to work.

There's something wrong here. And then in small print on the glass is stripped back or peel off the protective coating on both sides of the glass. So I did that, but then I, I struggled to put it back in again.

And the reason is because I was trying to put it into the front rather than in the back. And I basically had the wrong hole, so I couldn't get it. It wouldn't fit.

I mean, it was a struggle to get it in and it was kind of quite loose, but it, it, it just kept falling out. It was kind of floppy. So I managed, um, I put it in the right way and even then I managed to do it wrong, but eventually I did it right.

So that's the main thing. I didn't need to tell you all that, but the main thing is I figured it out after about five hours. So it's good.

It's good that I spent my day productively. I'm sure you agree. So those listening that haven't joined my boring group on Facebook, please join.

If you want to Jason Newland's boring group, it's a private group, but you can join and you will be accepted. Um, six is such a prestigious group. You say Molly's the boss of the group and you can, uh, the good thing about it, because if you join a group, you can ask me questions for the Q&A Friday.

But to be fair, if you contact me on my normal Facebook page, you can probably ask me questions because I think someone did. I'm pretty sure someone, because I posted it on a normal Facebook page and I think I had a question asked. Let me have a look.

Q&A Friday. Yeah, I did. I got one saying, yeah, so I got that.

So that's from Diana. I'll, I'll mention that in the actual recording. So cool.

I wonder if any of the other places, cause I've got a few different pages, Facebook pages. So I don't really visit very often, not very often at all, just because it's one of these weird things I've got. And by the way, I'm not bragging when I say this at all.

Uh, cause nobody, I get no activity on this page. Even I post everything I do. Jason Newland, hypnotist.

It's my page. It's one, uh, it's a page I've got on YouTube on Facebook. Sorry.

I've got 26,000 followers, 26,000 likes, and not even a like. I got one like on the Friday, Q&A Friday, a couple of likes on a podcast a few days ago. You know, it's just nothing, no, no, I just don't get any, any kind of, um, feedback or anything on there.

And I post everything, but then I've had a few little things. Uh, I remember I was posting stuff on Twitter. I can't, I'm blocked on Twitter, not blocked as in like banned, but just, I can't get into it.

Can't get into my Twitter for some reason. And the right, there's, uh, someone kept moaning at me on Twitter. This is years ago saying, you need to say more on here.

Cause all I do on these social networks, Vinnie's eating a, um, a chop or bone thing, but it's a proper bone with, I don't know what they're called, but it's his dinner basically. And he's loving it. He's had two, there's broken half and it's the smaller for the small dogs, but he's loving it.

He stalks, he knows I'm talking about him. He just stopped near his ear pricked up. Um, what was I talking about? Actually with my life story, what was I talking about? Actually with the title, shouldn't it? Um, or I think I gave it a go.

I think I'm going to do that. That's going to be the title. I had to go.

I tried minimally Facebook. Yeah. I post all, all, all of it's paid Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, all that stuff.

It's all just be about been posting my content since I've been doing this. Started off with, uh, what was it? The one before Facebook, that one. So I've, I've started off on there.

Then, um, moved to Facebook and then YouTube and, you know, just went and I've, there was a time when it was about, wow, there was loads of different versions of Facebook available. Believe it or not, loads. And I was a member of all of them.

So let's have a look. If I just put in old social old sites, like Facebook, that don't exist exist. Because there was a few, the seven best.

No. Tired of seven best. No.

11 discontinued social media platforms. You probably forgot. Let's have a look.

I was a member of all of these. I bet you, I bet you bet you bet you all cut. Yep.

I was a member of that. And it's just, I there was, I've been a member of ones from all over the world, different ones where there wasn't even any English being spoken by just posting my stuff on there. And I still got people liking my stuff.

Not Facebook though. Not now. Do you understand? Okay, so Google Buzz, I don't remember that one.

Google Plus, of course, but that's gone, isn't it? I used to be on everyone used to be on Google Plus, I think at one point. Friendster. Yeah, I used to be on there.

That's going back a bit. Founded in 2002. Ping.

And yeah, I used to be on their friend feed. Yeah, I think so. Vine never did vine never did vine.

That was much more for the younger people, but live streaming, which I never used to really do periscope. Don't think so. Path never heard of that one.

There was these weren't not ones I'm thinking of. There was old, old social media sites from 2008. Okay, here we go.

Here we go. Well, this is what I want listed defunct social network services on Wikipedia. So, oh, 43 things.

I remember that. So I was going through it. See if I can find any Bay Bay do be a ID you used to go now Bebo used to be on there.

Bolt. I'm not sure that was a teenager. So I think I might have been an American one.

I don't remember that one. Me, me, me, me, me, me. Okay, it wasn't on all of them.

I was on a few, but some of them were kind of they weren't necessarily for for what I was doing. If you know I mean, I mean, if it was a dating site, there'd be no point being on there. Friends reunited.

So I might be in Friendster. I might be on there. But just for different reasons.

Glee. No, I wasn't on there. Gini.

Go, go, go, go key. Good. I might be on Glee.

I don't know. Oh, it's a TV show. I'm just thinking it sounds familiar.

Google Buzz, Google Plus. Yep. I mean, I was on every single one I could find.

So anyone's I wasn't on is because I couldn't find them. Blimey, I can't. There's a lot.

And then I'm a Meggle. First social networking service by Google a Meggle. Now that's all cut.

Yeah, based on a Meggle I used to be on. And I think so. Play this.

Stumble upon. Yep. Is that not around anymore? So it's a little bit like you know, so yeah, the that coffee shop in town's closed.

No. What Salmonella coffee as it's been closed. Closed down.

Yeah. I was going to visit them. I forgot they existed.

I was going to visit them one day. Perhaps if you had they wouldn't be closed down. Or maybe had a different name.

I suppose that's another thing. Vox. I used to be a Vox.

Vox. Working store. Working twin.

I think I was with them. There was a I was even on a website. It was it was for black people only.

I mean, it was it was basically a blacks for a social media for black people. And I joined that and I was very welcome. And it wasn't I think it wasn't like you can only join if you're if you're not white.

But it was I think it was like an alternative to Facebook. And let me see if network I'm just gonna look it up see whether or not if it you know, do you ever do a thing like Oh, is did I remember this correctly? Top nine black owned social media sites. And I don't think it's a case of who owns it.

It was a case of for me it was a lot. Black Planet, Fanbase, Afro Tech Connect, Spill, Melanin People. This is these are real sites by the way.

Safe digital space for black people to share short videos, pictures in their magazines. I think it might be Black Planet Black Planet offers matchmaking jobs. But if it's still around, that's probably not the one because I think it is still around.

I wonder if I can see if I can log in see if I'm still in there. Log in. No, I can't remember password.

That's not the one anyway. The black that black net. I think you might be in black net.

I don't know. But it was I used to post my videos and my just the same as with every platform, every, every social media platform, I post my stuff. And I had a fair following on there, actually.

I mean, I know it sounds might sound like a lie that had out of that I had a following but I did you know, I really did. And original six degrees is the first is the first social network site founded in 1996. There wasn't even any internet in the UK in 1996.

To speak of, I mean, there might have been but the general public didn't use it. Stop lying. And so the first really popular was what's his name on it? Blimey platforms, new social media, soft.

I forget the name of it. Twitter, Twitter, Twitter, Facebook, Facebook gets number of users millions, 3,003,000,000. So 3 billion, 3 billion people use Facebook.

Is that true? 3 billion out of seven in the world. So that half, half the world uses Facebook, YouTube 2.5 billion people. WhatsApp 2 billion, Instagram 2 billion.

TikTok 1.5. WeChat 1.3. I didn't know WeChat existed anymore. Facebook Messenger 979 million. Telegram 800 million.

That's a Russian site. I think they use it in other places as well. That's just where originated.

Telegram, I think they used it in Thailand. And two in 752 million Snapchat. Is that still around? Is it? Oh, 750 million.

Kuaishou 685 million. And ex Twitter. Oh, Twitter's way down 619 million.

Drecking Twitter has gone down. It used to be a lot more popular back in, you know, unfortunately, before, before what's his name took it over. I think it's gone a bit south lately, for some reason.

Oh, look, tying on a social media 1973 to 2023. 1973. Okay, right.

MySpace. That's what I was trying to think of. So MySpace.

I used MySpace. I had I feel I had 100,000 followers on MySpace. Yeah, so there.

I used to get a lot of people watch listen to my stuff. Hard to believe it's true. You're bragging again.

You're bragging. Yeah. God needs something to brag about.

Skype, Facebook, or cut used to use or cut. I don't know what happened to that. Reddit used to use Reddit.

VK used to use don't know what happened to that. Next door. Don't remember that.

Pinterest used to use that a lot. Instagram, Snapchat, divine music, discord. I can't get my head around discord.

I'll be honest with you. Threads is a big one. I don't know threads.

Well, I don't know what threads is be real. As another one threads. I've heard of it.

It's an online social media and social network services operated by metal. The app offers users the ability to post and share text images and videos, as well as I should be on it should not be. It's I do.

Well, I do videos. Threads. How do you is it not part of? Is it not part of Facebook, then? Is it not? Is it threads? I just assumed anything that was part of meta would be actually on, you know, like connected to Facebook.

But maybe I'm wrong. threads meta. This one has research.

Oh, threads. Is it me? Or did he just come back as Instagram? threads meta. Instagram, the Instagram logo, logo just came up.

So it's the same company. Because Instagram is owned by Facebook. So it's exactly the same as Instagram.

Does anyone else notice that I come out of it again? Yeah, I click on threads.net. Click on it. The Instagram. Oh, it's it's the same colouring, but it's not quite the same.

It looks like it but threads is like a an a kind of mixer, but it's the same colour in his Instagram. Ah, perhaps I should join. Maybe that's where all the groovy stuff happens.

I don't know. I've not seen much groovy stuff lately. Maybe that's what it is.

I told someone the other day, I said today earlier, about something happened in the park, you know, a while back and I was jogging and they started laughing. Because I've got a funny story. Basically, I've got a funny story.

I was in the park jogging. And they were rolling around like, ah, I said, that's not the funny part. Rude.

Do you know when people put r o r o f l a o f? Are they really rolling on the floor laughing laughing their bum off? I mean, are they literally rolling around on the floor when they put that? Because when people do put rolling on the floor laughing r o f l o a or whatever it is, it never seems to coincide with what they've written.

Maybe it's just me. But it never seems to coincide.

It seems to be a different, like they're having a different conversation. You know, something else I've noticed, I watch stuff on, let's say it's Instagram or whatever, or on YouTube. And I see I look at the comments.

And some people in the comments clearly appear to believe what they've just seen. You know, a badly acted YouTube sketch, where you can see I mean, it's not hard to see that is. I mean, the fact that it can't be a real situation, because it's filmed from various different angles.

That's a clue. And as a microphone, you know, like, it's just clearly it's not. You don't get angles from both people talking at different times, you know, if it's a life situation.

And I'm a little bit concerned about some of the people growing up watching these videos on YouTube, and maybe other platforms who actually believe what they're seeing. And even more, what's going to happen now with the AI was already happening, when our AI will be indistinguishable from real, you know, when it comes to video. Talking about that, I have I this is a, you know, I'm quite into the AI stuff.

I'm interested in it, because it's really going to make it like a huge, it already is affecting the world, which is, it's been affecting the world for years. I mean, you think about it, the even in the airports, where they they take, they now take like fingerprints, not in every airport, but more and more doing it apparently. So anyone that travels, it won't be long, but everybody that travels through the air, and without flying themselves, you know, in like planes and stuff, will all be recognizable, because not only it's not just the fingerprints or the thumbprint, or whatever, it's also the eye.

So they look in the eye, the photograph is taken of the eyes and face. So millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of people are on a file, like where with their fingerprints, and, you know, their facial recognition and all that stuff from all over the world, and I'm pretty sure they share it all between them. I personally don't care because I'm not a major duel thief or anything, so it doesn't really affect me.

But I do feel sorry for duel thieves. I mean, you know, they have it hard enough. I mean, the hours are terrible, you know, they can't do it, you know, they have to break into vaults in the evening and, you know, bank holidays, times when, I mean, let's face it, everyone else is having a nice break, and they're there sort of digging tunnels, trying to get into a vault, so they can steal jewels and stuff.

And then once they get it, it's like it's not easy to get rid of it, because, you know, they're being looked for, and they might have to sit on the stuff and not, so they, you know, they might need the money, but not be able to sell it, because the police are like, they're like hot buns in their oven, in their pockets or whatever, hot rocks or they call it.

So they're sitting there, and they can't, they've got millions of pounds worth of jewels, like, you know, I don't know, from some royal family or whatever, and they just, they can't spend any of it, because it's like all they want to do is perhaps go and get a Big Mac, and it's just, or a hamburger, even though it shouldn't be called a hamburger, because it hasn't got ham in it, has it?

No. Ham.

Anyone knows what ham is? Yeah, pork. You got pork in the burger at McDonald's? Does the burger sell any burgers? McDonald's sell any burgers with pork in them? Probably not. Probably not.

They're not hamburgers, are they? And that's what, that's what they'd be like, because they're just ratty, and just getting frustrated, because they've got millions of pounds worth of jewels, and they're hiding out in a bunker somewhere, and they can't go out, because there's police looking for them, and I just feel sorry for them. That's all I'm saying is, you know, we just need a bit of compassion for everyone.

Okay, I'll get back to reality.

So what I've done is I've joined Eleven Labs. I've already been with them before, just playing around with their thing, and Eleven Labs is part of the OpenAI company, who produce JetGPT, and also Sora, which has not been released to the world yet, but is pretty much the, I would say the most talked about new AI platform, or new AI thing in the world at the moment.

The most talked about, as far as it's video from text.

No, damn you. It's just, do you realize, because I'm messing around with it, I've just closed the page. It closed it on me, to be fair.

I don't know why, and I was going to tell you about Eleven Labs. I signed up with it, and I'm angry now. I'm actually angry.

In fact, I don't think I've ever, ever been this angry. Oh, he's now eating on the bone. He's loving that.

So I, that's really, really, really annoyed me, because I've had that uploading for hours now, and now it's all just gone to waste. So I'll go back in there. Eleven Labs, it's, you can create voices, basically.

So that's what it is. You can create voices, you can use it, you can type in text, and a voice will, you know, whatever. You can have voices, dubbing over voices for videos, podcasts, stuff like that, and payouts.

What's the payout for? Create, create a link, create a stripe, connect, create a professional. Oh, okay, right. So what I've done is, you can create your own voice, not create, you can create your own voice, or add generative or cloned voice.

So, oh, let's have a look. So there's choices, you've got a voice design, design entirely new voices by adjusting their parameters. Every voice you create is randomly generated, is entirely unique, even if the same settings are applied.

Instant voice cloning. Now I've tried this out, tested this out in the past. Clone a voice from a clean sample recording.

Sample should contain one speaker, and be over one minute long, and not contain background noise. I did that. I mean, if it's still on it, I'll play it for you.

This didn't, wasn't perfect. And this, I don't know, see what you think. Voice library, add a voice from our community, and professional voice cloning.

That one's got a tick on it for some reason. Um, that's really, really annoyed me, that is, because, okay, I, let's see whether or not it's got voices. If it's got my voice, voice library, it might save mine, you never know.

It hasn't, but it might have done. You never know, voice library, voice lab. Oh man, British man with a deep and subtle accent.

Right, let's see what it sounds like. I'll turn the volume down a little bit. Okay, let's play it.

I wonder if they've, okay, so, hello, and welcome to let me bore, spell bore, you to sleep. I'm much quicker type than I used to be. Hello, and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

Right, wasn't really me, was it? So, just, I thought maybe that could have been the one. Let's have a look at history. Welcome to Beneath the Willow.

11 months ago. Welcome to Beneath the Willow, a relaxing hypnosis session designed to guide you to a state of deep relaxation. So, basically, I just copied a transcript of something that I'd done before just to see.

So, I think it sounds okay, but it's not my voice. Welcome to Beneath the Willow, a relaxing hypnosis session designed to guide you to a state of deep relaxation and inner tranquility. Find a comfortable position, either sitting or lying down, where you can fully relax and let go.

Take a moment to ensure you won't be disturbed during this session. Once you're ready, we can begin. Close your eyes and take a slow, deep breath.

Well, anyway, what I did is what I did, and clearly, I messed up. So, I have to do it all over again, which is, oh, projects. I wonder if it's creating new projects.

Voices, because I had my voice, and I had it down as AI Juicy Jason, and, you know, as you would. But it's not, it's not on air. Now, there are lots of different voices that can be used, but I wanted to use my voice.

I wanted to, you know, just use me, and see how well they can get. And when you do the, I'll do it again. Anyway, I'll do it again, because I might as well, while we're here.

So, create a new pod, no, speech voices, docs and resources, character quota, quota remaining 10,900. Well, I don't know what that means. So, voices, I'm going to generate professional voice cloning.

And you can upload recordings, they have to be at least AI, they have to be at least 10 minutes, a minimum of 10 minutes. And you can upload up to 100. Now, I'm imagining most people would not have a huge amount of their own voice talking or that, you know.

But I've got a lot. And I did upload about 1200. Not 1200, 120 hours of me talking, I uploaded, which is why it was taking so long to do.

But I just, I wanted to test it to see if it works. So, it's like going all the way back again to doing it. So, 1000 to 100.

It's 95. I mean, basically, if I just leave it all night long, hopefully it will do, it will be complete. But I don't know if it will or not.

But I'll do it while we're talking. So, it's only 100 recordings, but it's still, I think it's like eight gigabytes, I think it was. Okay, I wasn't right.

89, 85, 80. So, I kind of was hoping, I just thought the more it can listen, the more it's got to listen to and to work on, the better it would be. And to me, that makes sense.

But maybe it doesn't, maybe it doesn't need that much stuff. But it just, it makes sense to me that, because that's a lot, isn't it? That's a lot of hours of someone talking. So, I thought they'd be more likely to pick up my nuance, if that's a word, the nuance, nuance of my vocals.

And you might think, well, why would you want to do that anyway? Just of interest, really, that's all. It's, I'm not gonna, I mean, there might come a time when I have to, I hope not, but there might come a time when I'm sort of relying on something like that. So, it makes sense to kind of do it now, really, you know, while I can.

Not while I can, I'm not, I'm being dramatic, but I just find it fascinating. And also, I want to own my own voice. So, I want to put my voice in there and own it, so that if someone else uses my voice, it can detect that and say, no, wait a minute, because you can't use other people's voices, you're not allowed to.

You can't put someone else's voice in and create a clone. But they did say, at this moment, you are not allowed to do that. So, the thing is, the reality is, I imagine anyone could just open an account, say their name's Steve, and then just post audio footage of, I don't know, Charlie Chaplin or something.

That's not a good example, really, because he mainly didn't speak that much, did he? But he could talk, there is footage of him talking somewhere. Did he have a squeaky voice? I can't remember. No, he didn't.

He did talk, he's as well, didn't he? He did that, because he did that thing that Hitler copied him, didn't he? He did that movie, and then Hitler copied him. So, the dictator. So, that's just a celebrity.

If you're just thinking like Robin Williams or someone, and you could just put it in, and will the AI even know that it's a celebrity that you've put in? I don't know. I don't have all the answers, you know. Most of them, but it's not all.

Four. So, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do this.

I'm going to try and see what comes out of it. I don't know if anything will. I genuinely don't know.

So, 1051 to 1110. 1051 to 1010. Oh, that was weird.

And it won't be done today, but when it's done, I'll let you have a little listen, because it might be mildly interesting. Mildly. Not a lot, but mildly.

Like, you know, a little bit, but not a lot. It doesn't have to be a lot. So, I think it's, I don't know.

I just find all this stuff fascinating. I really do. I think it's, it's not just the future.

It's happening now, and the only, basically, whoever can program this stuff is going to really have an advantage. So, anyone that can use it. I don't mean the way I use it.

I mean, like, really know how to use it, because I just play. But, anyone who knows how to, for example, there is, I was talking to my brother about this the other day, and he said, well, why don't you do it then? I said, I don't know how to. Now, that story would make more sense if you understand what we were talking about.

So, I said to him, there is a way with AI to pretty much automate most of what I do. So, I could pretty much, I said pretty much, have everything set up in a system where, I don't know. So, just I'm trying to think the steps of when I start to when I finish.

Just everything, every aspect. So, if I wanted to clone my voice, providing it cloned it well, but even then, I didn't, you know, if, for example, I wanted to do a Let Me Bore You To Sleep, or if I want to do an audio book, if I wanted to read an audio book, and I could get the audio book and get that downloaded. So, I guess I could set up, if I knew how to do it, set up AI to search for the book, search for a book that's out of print, out of copyright, extract the PDF file of that book, or a format that's, you know, that's usable.

And then create using things like 11 labs, create the the audio of that book being read, and then create an image based on that book, and then upload it to a podcast. And I'm not sure how any of those process could could be automated. But I think it could be.

And if it could be, you could literally have it going 24 hours a day. And with my clone voice, I could be reading every single out of date, out of copyright book in existence. Like hundreds of 1000s of hours worth of me talking, which I couldn't do in reality, but because it's 24 hours, it can be done so quickly.

And that's kind of what AI could do. So I could the amount of time it would take me to read a book out loud. With AI, even to be fair, even without the automation.

And if I could afford to do it, because let's face it, I didn't point this out the pricing of this thing. Oops, no, just come out of it again. I just came out of it again.

That's it. I've had enough. That's the fifth time I've done that.

It's the fifth time. The fifth. Right.

I don't think I'm destined to have a clone voice. I can't believe I like Oh, I'll give you the pricing and then just get a different page on a website. And now it's some websites.

If you go to different page, you go back, it's still working. But no, not this one. So technically, politically, I think it's something like $399 a month for 40 hours produced.

Now, 40 hours, I've got some weird lump in my finger, like the right at the bottom of my finger. That's weird. That is.

It hurts as well. I think I've been bitten by a nit or a gnat. That's strange.

That's doing be removed. That's weird. Maybe it's Oh, let's remove now I think it might might be like a Yeah, I feel I've been on something like a little splinter or something.

Oh, well. So I 399. So financially, obviously, it's not, you'd have to find a way to make money from doing video.

And I suppose it is possible. Yeah, I suppose it is very possible to make money from it. I just realized I just had an idea.

Just had an idea. So it is. But it would be tight.

Yeah, it is possible. But it would take quite a lot of work. When I thinking about it, it wouldn't be that difficult to put it together without the automation.

Just basically, you can down, you know, get the podcast, get the transcript, or the PDF file of the book. And then just put it into text, convert it into normal text. Paste that in to I'm not sure how how much text you can put into 11 labs.

I don't know how on every hour long an average book would last because there's some I listened to audio books. Some of them will last like an hour and a half an hour and 10 minutes if they're short books. Some will last like four hours.

So some are eight hours. So if you say an average five hours for a book, like a not particularly long book. So five hours, it might take 20 minutes, 20 minutes, probably probably less than that maybe 20 minutes to process.

And then convert it into videos fairly easy. And then upload it so wouldn't wouldn't be a huge process to do that. And it could be my voice doing it.

Because, you know, unless it's a book that I'm interested in reading, I wouldn't really want to read a book out loud. Really, I have done that in the past. Actually, I have read books out loud.

And I mean, outside of college, university, and wasn't the most popular person in that library, to be honest. But I did do that a little bit. I think maybe for the ASMR videos I used to do.

I used to read out loud like but whisper sort of. Yeah. But I used to find it quite.

It used to take its toll a little bit is it's very, I like to read. But reading out loud, and it's it takes you know, your vocal cords and it's a lot of it's, it's not the same to me is just talking, but in the same way, talking like this, and then doing a really serious relaxation session and focusing on talking really slowly. That I guess that that takes a fair bit of concentration by to fall asleep doing it, to be honest.

With these recordings, I keep myself entertained, just enough to stay awake. Although I do sometimes sometimes I do feel a little bit tired. Just sometimes.

Well, I'm okay now. But sometimes I'm like, the other day, although I did talk for about an hour and a half, I think or nearly two hours. Not last night, because that was a two hour one.

But it was a couple of days back. And I was at the end of it. I don't feel that way.

Because I think it was Monday. I tell you why. I had my afternoon nap.

I have to have my afternoon nap. And you might think you're not you're not 95. So well, that's rude.

But it's no, it's not about that is. I'm looking at a computer screen a lot of time because because most what I do while I'm looking at screen. So if I sit and it takes a lot of strain on my eyes.

I've got a nose, my eyesight isn't so good these days. And, you know, all that stuff. But like today, for example, what I've done.

So it's been a productive day, kind of sniffness. It's been weird. It's been a fairly productive day.

Let me just show you what I've done. I can't show you but I will talk you through it. I decided like yesterday, I didn't mention this, actually.

But yesterday, I spent quite a lot of time making images for my playlists. On the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast. So I have 123.

Okay, let's count this 123456. So 1234567. So six sevens.

123456789 1011 1213 1415 1617 1819 2021 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 and add to was it for e 123456789 1011 1213 1415 1617 1819 2021 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44. So there's 44 different playlists.

And most of them are the Let Me Bore You To Sleep playlists.

So there is and it starts off no music, one to 50. And then no music 51 to 100. No music 101 to 150.

No music 151 to 200. No music 201 to 250 251 to 300 301 to 350 or no music still 3351 to 400 401 to 450 451 to 500 still no music 501 to 550 551 to 600 601. Realize this is even more boring that I can handle.

Okay, 601 to 650 651 to 700. And, you know, this is why I started trying to have a weird noise for me. When I first started doing these, Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

I remember, you know, my plan was, was to really be like, super tedious. Now, some of you might argue, well, you you you've got it right, you hit it on the head, you succeeded, which is a bit rude. Because I think these are quite interesting.

But I was going to be talking about literally taking steps and walking while I went to the and I still might do it. I think I did do a couple of these. And they're hard, hard to do.

And well, it actually described every physical movement that I made. If I'm going to do some like that. Yeah, I will because it's fun.

It's very I mean, it's, it's so boring. It's hard to actually do. It's hard to, you know, if I give you an example, I went to the kitchen to do the washing up.

So I got up from the chair and I moved my left leg and then a right leg. I looked over at the window and I looked at the telly. And it's just I noticed the feeling of the floor underneath my right foot.

And I noticed my anus was itchy. I don't know, it's just things like that. And that's when I'd start laughing because I realised I was this is just I'm being silly now.

My mind's going in a different direction because I can't focus. That's another thing. I'm not sure how good my focus is.

I can be focused sometimes. I can focus but when these recorders if you listen to the first one, nothing like this. Nothing.

In fact, I would say even the first probably 100 weren't like this. I think after the first four, three or four, they started to become more. But right then he started to get excited someone opened the gate.

You know how exciting that is when someone opens a gate. So he started barking. So anyway, I've got the playlists are basically in groups of 50.

I think it kind of established that one all the way up to 1100. So I need to make some new ones for the newer recordings I've been doing. And I've got without music, music, five hours and 10 hours.

So there's quite a few. Well, but to be safe, there's over over six playlists. And then I've also got four playlists for the let me bore your pain away.

Music, five hours, 10 hours, music, no music, five hours, 10 hours. And there's one for the sleeping boring objects. So what I've been doing today is I didn't realize this.

I only had the only had what did I have? So look, I know what I'm trying to say. I just can't remember. Right.

The let me bore your pain away. I only had the ones without music uploaded to the podcast. So what I've done is uploaded all the ones I didn't have.

I had numbers number eight and nine. With music, five hours and 10 hours. And then you know, so I did have those but one to seven I didn't.

So I've uploaded one to seven of the let me bore your pain away. With music, five hours and 10 hours. And added them to the playlist.

So I made the playlists, made the images for the playlists, and then uploaded the images for each individual recording, which was already made. So and that took took a while now it's all done. So it's it's I don't at the moment.

I don't really want to upload lots of different ones because it kind of hides the newest recordings, which were the ones that I did this yesterday. And they get a little bit. I mean, how many do I do? How many do I upload 123456789 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 21.

So I uploaded less than 23 recordings today, which means that's quite a few above the others. And so you know, I prefer not to do that. But I didn't have them on it.

I thought they was on there. And they're not. And I don't know why they're not.

It's just about organization, I guess I'm trying to get more, more organized train. So I've done that. They're up there now.

And they're in the playlist. So the next thing I need to do is go on to my website, let me bore you.com and upload each playlist. Also need to organize each of the playlists as well so that they're in order.

As in like, one to 50 is 1234 50 at the top. And then 51 to 100 51 at the bottom 100 at the top, you know, in order. What do I suppose one to 50 could start one at the beginning, goodnight, one to 50 51.

Would that make more sense? Does it matter? Really, at the end? What do you think? Should one be at the top? Should 250 to 300? No 251 rather to 300. Should 251 be the top of the list or the bottom of the list? And 300 be at the top or the bottom? What do you think? I've been doing it so that the lowest number is at the bottom and works its way up.

Kind of like, you know, with a normal podcast, the latest recording is at the top.

Apart from today when I've got stuff from I don't know, probably last year on there, which is like let me bore your pain away number 7, 10 hours long. I don't know when it is I recorded that. Wonder if I've got it anywhere.

It's not 10 hours, number 7. No, got no date. Although number 5 was the 18th of October 2022. Wow, isn't that interesting? It's not really but let me bore your pain away.

The first one is the 18th of August 2022. The second one was 2nd of October 2022. The third one was the 3rd of October 2022.

And number four was the 7th of October 2022. And number five was the 18th of October. That's French.

I don't know what to say. That's weird, isn't it? I wonder if French actually have a word for zero. Okay.

Okay. So that's that's 10. See? You didn't realise I was bi, did you? Yep.

So, un, deux, trois. Trois is three. Un is one.

Deux is two. Trois is three. Quatre is four.

Cinq is five. Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq. Six is six.

Sept is seven. Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept. Nines is eight.

Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, nines. Neuf is nine and dix is ten. Did I get it right? Let's see.

One to ten. One to ten in French. In French.

Okay. Here we go. Here we go.

Let's see. Did I get it right? I generally hadn't looked right until right now. Pronunciation.

Zero is zeon. Zero. Zero.

Zero is zero. So I didn't know that but un. I got that right.

Un. Un. I thought it was un.

Un. Okay. Well, I've got it right anyway.

Un, deux. Yeah. Deux.

Trois. Yeah. Quatre.

Okay. I said quatre but that was actually how it's spelled. Quatre is how it's spelled.

Okay. Fair enough. Cinq.

Yeah. Six. Sept.

Yeah. I did do that, didn't I? Huit. Neuf.

Dix. I got it right. So I'm going to go now.

Now that I can speak French, I'm going to leave. So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy.

Be gentle with yourself and I will speak to you again tomorrow. Lots of love. Bye.