Converting the course to an audiobook

[yemikifouly]

Feature Description

From here: #220

Is your feature request related to a problem?

No. Just a suggestion.

Additional Context

Because the course is not technical, the suggestion is to consider converting it to an audio book that can be easily shared and consumed by a greater audience.

[tanmaylaud]

Thanks for sharing @yemikifouly !

[imflash217]

@yemikifouly , @tanmaylaud , @em-blue, @iamtrask , @mcleonard Having a voice in multiple languages would be extremely useful for non-technical people. In my personal experience most people in countries where english (especially medium/fast-paced speech) is not the default spoken language makes it hard-to-digest such new concepts.

Language is a big barrier in pushing newer technologies to non-english speakers. I feel that this topic is so important even for common public to have basic understanding that it would be desirable to publish this amazing content in multiple languages (not only in text-captions but also possible voice-overs in different language). The community is also super strong here and has so many contributors across the globe that many can come forward to dub the speaker's voice in their native local language.

[imflash217]

Hi @yemikifouly , @tanmaylaud , @em-blue, @iamtrask , @mcleonard,

I created a podcast version of the Course-1 at https://anchor.fm/imflash217

I created this podcast initially for myself and it helped me a lot so I suppose it will be helpful to many more enthusiasts. If this is not okay for me to create this please let me know so that it can be taken down.

I hope people enjoy this. Thanks

[iamtrask]

Hey Vinay! Super grateful for your initiative and passion and for coming up with an idea and taking the risk to execute it!

At present I think we'd like to keep the content within the courses.openmined.org platform and medium that we've chosen to release it on (video). There are a variety of reasons for this - most of them having to do with ensuring we give students a really full experience (visuals, quizzes, mentorship, project grading, and the ability to update content as we need to change it). You'll notice that we haven't released the videos as public on youtube either yet (for the same reason). The course is of course free - and it's our belief that by encouraging students to consume this free content all in one place that we'll be able to do a better job at helping the program grow overall. Given this philosophy, would you mind taking down the podcast form?

[imflash217]

Hi @iamtrask, Thanks for the clarity. I was also a bid worried when I was putting the podcast open. Now, I have taken it down. I totally agree with you. 👍