For a few years now, various Commoncog members have told us that keeping up with Commoncog can be a bit of a slog. Sometimes you don’t have the time to read. “Why don’t you make an audio version,” some of you have said, “Then we can listen when we’re doing the dishes, or walking the dog, or driving to work.”
Well, it took awhile, but the audio version of the Commoncog Case Library is finally here.
To be clear: this feature is implemented using AI voice generation. We decided on this path because Commoncog essays and cases may be updated from time-to-time — especially if we find new sources, or when we issue corrections. Using voice generation allows us to instantly regenerate the audio for each update, with little-to-no delay.
If you’re worried about the audio quality, we think you’d be pleasantly surprised. We’ve chosen two voices that are incredibly high quality, and in fact are amongst the most expensive, most realistic voices we could find. If you’d like a sample, you may find one here.
One reason this launch has taken so long is that we’ve built an entire quality assurance platform into the Commoncog Case Library, and we have humans going through nearly every minute of generated audio to ensure that a) it sounds natural and b) is enjoyable to listen to.
More importantly, however, we’ve implemented this in a way that enables you to listen to the cases that you want, in the order that you wish to listen to them.
Each member now has a private podcast feed of their own. You’ll get all the new cases that are published to the Case Library, of course. But you may also:
- Add all the cases of a specific concept to your feed.
- Add a specific case to your feed (say, if you want to relisten to a particular case, because you want to be reminded of certain events).
- And you may subscribe to specific concepts, and have new episodes sent to your podcast player when added.
To set up your podcast feed, you should log in first, and then go to https://commoncog.com/c/podcast/. You’ll see something like this:
Hopefully the interface changes should be intuitive to you. For instance, to add a case to your feed, you can go to any case now and click this button:
If you’d like full instructions on how to get set up, you may find them here:
If you’d like more help, reply directly to the members-only announcement email sent to you, or start a new thread in the forum. We’ll be happy to help!
Right now, all Commoncog cases are available to listen to. We’ll be adding audio versions of Commoncog essays over the next few months.
I hope you enjoy this new feature! Expect more additions to the membership over the next couple of months.
Originally published , last updated .
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