I want to use it to have Mr. T read my status reports... is that possible?
Mr. T probably can't but you might be able to have Dr Who read your status reports http://tombakersays.com/ .
Ask HN: Review my app: tweetrad.io
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#12Please add a pause button. Otherwise, awesome!
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#13I don't know if it has any real business potential, but it's certainly an interesting little project. I'd love to see a blog post about how you put it together.
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#14Tweetrad.io is a fun little side project that converts twitter feeds into audio using text to speech. We use a distributed network of converter bots to handle the work queue. Jobs are placed on the queue via api calls from the javascript client that interacts with twitter's search api directly in order to avoid rate limiting of a centralized search server. Our app server is a lightweight Sinatra service that handles…
An iPhone app would be great. Especially if it could read tweets from your followers between songs, though I'm not sure if Apple gives you enough control over the iPod to do that.
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#15its a very neat project. As said before I'd also love to see how you put it together. Also, maybe you can put a little toggle button next to tweets that people can click when they think a word is not said correctly.
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#17Very interesting project and I had fun listening through the recent tweets from HackerNews and ShitMyDadSays. A minor annoyance is the robot voice, but I realize you may be at the mercy of the text to speech engine on that one. My only criticism would be when reading @replies. It says the name of the person you're replying to twice in quick succession and it's hard to understand. I'd either say it once or just put a pause in there. ;)
Re: Ask HN: Review my app: tweetrad.io
#18Tweetrad.io is a fun little side project that converts twitter feeds into audio using text to speech. We use a distributed network of converter bots to handle the work queue. Jobs are placed on the queue via api calls from the javascript client that interacts with twitter's search api directly in order to avoid rate limiting of a centralized search server. Our app server is a lightweight Sinatra service that handles…
I like it too, zen, especially the female voice.
Would be neat to add special effects in the audio stream, e.g. if the tweet is about "happy hour" or "party", or if it's news you could have background clip like CNN.com headlines
Re: Ask HN: Review my app: tweetrad.io
#19This application has the potential to provide an enjoyable, useful ambient experience. Personally, I can imagine myself having this on in the background, while I'm working. Before I would consider doing that, though, the speech quality needs to be improved.
Re: Ask HN: Review my app: tweetrad.io
#20Thank you all for the great feedback. We will be replying to some of your questions. Also the How It Works, blog post is in progress. We're currently featured on the mashable.com site so we are making sure the bots continue crunching those tweets.