SwiftUI

APIs the lazy way

Human being curious

Human being curious

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APIs the lazy way

I'm still tinkering with my voiceover scripting and recording app. I've made some decent progress, and now I can easily choose from all of OpenAi's six voices when playing audio or saving it an MP3 file. I also took a shortcut by using AI to review OpenAI's API reference docs.

Now I can easily choose from all of OpenAI's six available voices.

Let your AI read the API

I updated my custom SwiftUI-coding GPT, which already knows the SwiftOpenAI package, with OpenAI's API reference document saved as a 165-page PDF.

Saving online API docs to PDF is easy although not perfectly straightforward with Safari. To save all pages rather than only what's onscreen, choose Print from the File menu rather than Export as PDF, and then select Save as PDF from the PDF menu at the bottom of the screen.

After this step, I successfully prompted the AI to suggest the SwiftUI code updates necessary for my simple voice picker. I suspect I could use the same approach if I decide to swap out OpenAI's TTC model for, say, ElevenLabs or another service.

Over the coming days and weeks, I will continue to refine this app when time allows. The UI needs a ton of work, but progress is steady.

The experiment continues...

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