hpr4761 :: HPR Community News for October 2026

HPR Volunteer Ken and the Clones talk about shows released and comments posted in October 2026

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HPR Community News.

This is a monthly show for, and by the HPR community.

A rotating team of volunteers provide a summary of the months shows, as well as cover any news or discussions of note. If you have topics that you want to make about a given show, then please leave a comment and we will read it out.

This is a reserved slot scheduled for the first Monday of the month. You are invited to participate, but participants are expected to have listened to all the shows. It is recorded during the last week of each month, usually on the Friday before the first Monday of the Month using Mumble. We can adapt to suit.

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New hosts

There were no new hosts this month.

Last Month's Shows

Id Day Date Title Host
4739 Thu 2026-10-01 Happy by shower # 3 Antoine
4740 Fri 2026-10-02 Robert A. Heinlein in the 1960s Ahuka
4741 Mon 2026-10-05 HPR Community News for September 2026 HPR Volunteers
4742 Tue 2026-10-06 OLF Call for presentations open Ken Fallon
4743 Wed 2026-10-07 wl-copy Klaatu
4744 Thu 2026-10-08 HPR Beer Garden 21 - Mild Kevie
4745 Fri 2026-10-09 BruCON interview 1: The BruCON organization Kristoff
4746 Mon 2026-10-12 Monotone Lee
4747 Tue 2026-10-13 UNIX Curio #13 - Replacements for cat Vance
4748 Wed 2026-10-14 Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 5 Whiskeyjack
4749 Thu 2026-10-15 murph gives a presentation talk about Hacker Public Radio at the OLF conference murph
4750 Fri 2026-10-16 Playing Civilization VI Part 2 Ahuka
4751 Mon 2026-10-19 Real Live AI Use Case operat0r
4752 Tue 2026-10-20 Static Addict Episode 2: Metal Machine Music TheDUDE
4753 Wed 2026-10-21 HPR Beer Garden 22 - Bitter Kevie
4754 Thu 2026-10-22 BruCon interviews part2: Lockpicking Kristoff
4755 Fri 2026-10-23 Blender Elsbeth
4756 Mon 2026-10-26 We are material beings Antoine
4757 Tue 2026-10-27 Follow-up on a local Ham visit for Kevie and Ken Archer72
4758 Wed 2026-10-28 Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 6 Whiskeyjack
4759 Thu 2026-10-29 Quine and the Application of Logic to Science Trurl
4760 Fri 2026-10-30 Robert A. Heinlein: Later Works Ahuka

Comments this month

Past shows

This month's shows

Mailing List discussions

Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mailing List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman.

The threaded discussions this month can be found here:

https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2026-October/thread.html

Events Calendar

With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar.

Quoting the site:

This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page.

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Comment #1 posted on 2026-11-02 02:56:41 by candycanearter07

voice of hell

i never consented to this what in the actual frick i was pretty explicit on the mailing list about NOT having my comments read out by a terrible god awful voice """"""""""clone"""""""""" and hearing my own thoughts soullessly voiced by a machine was sickening. please either refrain from using the bot on my comments and either outright skip mine or actually put a modicum of effort into your JOB and actually use your voice. thank you

Comment #2 posted on 2026-11-02 04:06:32 by Whiskeyjack

Voice Clones in HPR News

That was quite an interesting demonstration. While the voice clones were not perfect, they were very recognizable as the voices of particular show hosts.

While having each comment read out by a voice clone of the commenter is an interesting idea. I think it may perhaps be better to simply treat the voice clones as "guest hosts" for the community news and have a few arbitrary clones read out the comments, perhaps rotating the clones for different months, and have two per show reading alternate comments.

This would also get around the problem of keeping track of who objects to their voice being cloned and who does not. You would just need a small number of volunteer "voice clone guest hosts" for reading comments. By using HPR hosts as the voice clones rather than some arbitrary AI voice, I think it would help promote a sense of community.

However, the "live" community news hosts should still offer their comments on the comments when appropriate, as those are in many cases as interesting to listen to as the comments themselves (e.g. Ken's brief interjection on electrical power frequency when reading one of my comments). I would hate to lose this sort of "human" element of the show.

If the process of creating the audio for comments read by clones could be largely automated, this may reduce the amount of work which needed to be done by the community news hosts. It may also be advantageous to avoid having the entire show in the voice of a single host in cases where there are no additional humans available.

However, if the process cannot be automated and it continues to result in more work for the Community News hosts than doing it manually, then I'm not sure that it is worth doing.


P.S. While the voice clones did make some mistakes, I'm not sure that their error rate is actually worse than that of some of the human hosts who read out the comments.

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