Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

Post by mindwork » Mon, Jan 07, 2019, 7:32 PM UTC

polamam wrote: post #11

txtme wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The actual text to voice synthesis isn't acutally bad, but the audio quality is terrible. The audio artifacts are so bad I could barely listen to the demo snippets. It's too bad they ruined a quite good product by skimping on the most important quality, audio quality. I wonder how OP missed this? Audio quality has to be flawless when using headphones for extended times. It's not like you need a lot of bits for audio,…

the audio sounds good to me too even with headphones, are you sure you haven't got broken headphones?

Post by bbody » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 5:06 AM UTC

mindwork wrote: post #57

If this is not a wake up call for me, I don't know what it should be. I had this same exact idea for 9 months now but never moved to execute. Reading through site it even has the same wording as in my head. As a developer I wanted to build something like this and it looks easy(without AI part). But following the startup gurus and podcasts I figured that idea should be validated first and to find actual customers is m…

Post by ramblerman » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 2:06 PM UTC

tibbon wrote: post #59

I’ve wondered for a while with NPR doesn’t have both audio and text of all of their programs. Sometimes I can listen, but not read (driving). Sometimes, I can read but not listen (work, or just when I’m without headphones). I realize they want high quality voice, but if at the moment all they have is text that’s ok with me. Not having both of these often means I just skip that article and never come back to it