I became aware of a chrome extension that does this. Is there anything that the extension does that this can’t do? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speechify-for-chro...
It costs money? Also isn't your question kinda backwards?
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#42I have something pretty similar that I built some time ago for personal use: listen to articles while I am working on things and can't dedicate my attention to anything else. I've been wondering if I should open source it(shove it all into a docker container that people can use locally). I would have loved to be able to publish it as a service but two things are stopping me: 1 is cost to run this and 2 is potential licensing issues I might face with it. But open source... And it runs pretty smoothly on a CPU(albeit a 14-core xeon and an 11-th gen i7).
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#45Neat! Could you add speed controls, a download audio option, download audio as mp3/webm/etc, and options for different voices? Why is there no donation option for this project? Why not add a email signup for updates/news? What are your options for micro monetization?
Right?! This is honestly a service I would pay for and it’s… up for free? There must be some type of cost on their end. Heck I’m happy to invest!
Not trying to steal from the dev here, but this same ability is built into Pocket that is run by Mozilla, and Mozilla will happily take your money.
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#46I have something pretty similar that I built some time ago for personal use: listen to articles while I am working on things and can't dedicate my attention to anything else. I've been wondering if I should open source it(shove it all into a docker container that people can use locally). I would have loved to be able to publish it as a service but two things are stopping me: 1 is cost to run this and 2 is potential l…
Same here, we built a scraper to (more or less) intelligently extract text from websites, I think adding TTS to it would be trivial. I'm guessing the hardware requirements are for the TTS engine? Could the Web Speech API be used to generate the audio locally to bring down costs? Even though you'd lose support for IE and FF.
Re: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL
#47I have something pretty similar that I built some time ago for personal use: listen to articles while I am working on things and can't dedicate my attention to anything else. I've been wondering if I should open source it(shove it all into a docker container that people can use locally). I would have loved to be able to publish it as a service but two things are stopping me: 1 is cost to run this and 2 is potential l…
Same here, we built a scraper to (more or less) intelligently extract text from websites, I think adding TTS to it would be trivial. I'm guessing the hardware requirements are for the TTS engine? Could the Web Speech API be used to generate the audio locally to bring down costs? Even though you'd lose support for IE and FF.
Exactly what I did, simple web interface I run inside rambox along with all chats and email clients and whatnot, paste a url and it scrapes it and generates the audio to be played in browser(rambox in this case). OK, I do keep a copy of the audio and the text and some other metadata but that's completely optional.
As far as tts, while the cloud speech is unmatched, it's still proprietary and not free. However there are plenty of really good open source solutions which work extremely well(sample from the one I'm using: https://storage.googleapis.com/adocs_g/example.wav). I use it all the time and in terms of resource usage it's completely unnoticeable. But again, I'm the sole user and on pretty powerful hardware so...
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#48Neat! Could you add speed controls, a download audio option, download audio as mp3/webm/etc, and options for different voices? Why is there no donation option for this project? Why not add a email signup for updates/news? What are your options for micro monetization?
A download option could lead to copyright violation claims.
That makes zero sense. It is already being downloaded to the browser.
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#49Neat! Could you add speed controls, a download audio option, download audio as mp3/webm/etc, and options for different voices? Why is there no donation option for this project? Why not add a email signup for updates/news? What are your options for micro monetization?
TinyGem Listen is similar, has speed control and different voice quality.
Curious if you like it. It (TinyGem) has been a passion project of mine for a while now.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here, we built a scraper to (more or less) intelligently extract text from websites, I think adding TTS to it would be trivial. I'm guessing the hardware requirements are for the TTS engine? Could the Web Speech API be used to generate the audio locally to bring down costs? Even though you'd lose support for IE and FF.
Exactly what I did, simple web interface I run inside rambox along with all chats and email clients and whatnot, paste a url and it scrapes it and generates the audio to be played in browser(rambox in this case). OK, I do keep a copy of the audio and the text and some other metadata but that's completely optional. As far as tts, while the cloud speech is unmatched, it's still proprietary and not free. However there a…
That sample does sound pretty convincing. Just out of curiosity, that spec'd out machine is sitting idle most of the time, only to generate some TTS occasionally?