HPR4746: Monotone
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HPR4746: Monotone

C1AdvancedOctober 12, 2026
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This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Python and its libraries 1. librosa — loading and resampling audio def load_audio(path): y, sr = librosa.load(path, sr=SR, mono=True) return y, sr Every episode, regardless of its original sample rate or channel count, gets loaded down to a single mono stream at 16kHz (SR = 16000). That's one line of librosa, resampling, and folding stereo to mono. It made every downstream tool (VAD, pitch tracking, MFCC extraction) operate on a consistent, predictable input regardless of what an...

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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 4746 for Monday the 12th of October 2026. Today's show is entitled Monotone. It is the 40th show of Lee and is about 12 minutes long. It carries a clean flag.

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The summary is, Leda some audio and textual analysis in Python. Hi, I'm Lee. Today I'm going to start talking about some satire, then move on to some computer-based audio and semantic analysis,

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and finally tried to draw some sort of conclusion linking the two. Endashgate.com is a satirical tech blog that basically reads what the Hacker News website is posting, then reposts it with a sarcastic comment. In July I saw a repost of Mastodon mentioning Hacker Public Radio.

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