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Re: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

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Post by SahAssar »

freediver wrote: post #49
donclark wrote: post #10

Neat! 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. https://tinygem.org/listen Curious if you like it. It (TinyGem) has been a passion project of mine for a while now.

Seems like that uses azure text to speech, right?

Re: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

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Post by croes »

dreadlordbone wrote: post #48
croes wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A download option could lead to copyright violation claims.

That makes zero sense. It is already being downloaded to the browser.

You mean into the local cache like youtube videos? Try making a youtube to mp3 site and wait for the content industry to recognize it.

Re: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

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Post by neolog »

busymom0 wrote: post #64
neolog wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really want one of these that can follow RSS/Atom feeds.

Can you explain a bit more on your requirement? I could build something like that if I understand a bit more details.

It would be like a cross between RSS reader and podcast app. So I can listen to my favorite blogs instead of reading them. And the list would update from the RSS feed. It would probably require some text cleaning like [1] and a good text-to-speech API.

[1] https://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

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Post by busymom0 »

neolog wrote: post #73
busymom0 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain a bit more on your requirement? I could build something like that if I understand a bit more details.

It would be like a cross between RSS reader and podcast app. So I can listen to my favorite blogs instead of reading them. And the list would update from the RSS feed. It would probably require some text cleaning like [1] and a good text-to-speech API. [1] https://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Thanks. I will dig further and see what I can build.

Re: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

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Post by karmanyaahm »

soheil wrote: post #56
eat_veggies wrote: post #36

Is this somehow using the waybackmachine to scrape pages? When I try some of the classic ssrf paths like file:/// or http://localhost:8080 , I get audio about the internet archive. When I put in https://localhost:443 , I get audio for the default nginx page, which matches what the internet archive has for that url: https://web.archive.org/web/20210620003533/http://localhost/ But putting http://localhost returns the a…

Added a check against localhost thanks for pointing that out.

http://[::1] still works btw

Re: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

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Post by [deleted] »

soheil wrote: post #56
eat_veggies wrote: post #36

Is this somehow using the waybackmachine to scrape pages? When I try some of the classic ssrf paths like file:/// or http://localhost:8080 , I get audio about the internet archive. When I put in https://localhost:443 , I get audio for the default nginx page, which matches what the internet archive has for that url: https://web.archive.org/web/20210620003533/http://localhost/ But putting http://localhost returns the a…

Added a check against localhost thanks for pointing that out.

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Re: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

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Post by soheil »

flanbiscuit wrote: post #24

Once in a while I use the speech feature of Chrome on my MacOS to have it read articles to me while I work. It's clunky though, it only works (AFAIK) on highlighted text which gets annoying on really long articles, and there's no pause so if I want to "pause" I need to stop it and then redo the highlight starting from where I paused (again, annoying with long articles). I think I'll be using your service from now on!…

Added speed controls by hovering the mouse over the player:

  javascript:audio=document.createElement('audio');audio.controls=true;audio.autoplay=true;audio.src='https://per.quest/'+document.location.href;audio.style='position:fixed;right:0;top:0;height:revert;z-index:10000;';audio.onmousemove=(e)=>{audio.playbackRate=e.layerX>150?(e.layerX>250?0.55:0.75):(e.layerX

Re: Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

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Post by hopesthoughts »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #14

This is cool! I recently tried to use VoiceOver on my iPhone and it’s… astonishingly difficult to use for just text to speech! One minor request: I realize the form page itself is very minimal, but this would be much more usable on a phone if you set the font-size of the input to at least 16px, and a reasonable viewport meta tag eg ` `

So yeah I use VoiceOver to navigate my phone on a daily basis, but I'm not a fan of reading things with it. If I'm going on a trip or something, I'll put the Kindle app on my phone. Otherwise I use NVDA on my desktop for that. It's much more efficient for reading long things.
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