Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
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Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
#2Hi all,
I'm the original poster. I felt encouraged to do a Show HN for Paper Time after seeing positive feedback in a different, side projects related thread a few days back [1].
I'll be around for a while so go ahead and ask me any questions, either around the idea or the technical parts.
A big shout out to the folks on HN who responded with very pertinent resources about UI design a few months back [2], when I'd just started building this.
Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
#3Hi all, I'm the original poster. I felt encouraged to do a Show HN for Paper Time after seeing positive feedback in a different, side projects related thread a few days back [1]. I'll be around for a while so go ahead and ask me any questions, either around the idea or the technical parts. A big shout out to the folks on HN who responded with very pertinent resources about UI design a few months back [2], when I'd ju…
nice abstraction for listening to abstracts!
would really like a "curated playlist" option. The ability to filter based on "Topics" is a step in that direction and a further vetting down of options will make the app more usable.
nitpick: the TTS ends up pronouncing the markup as well. maybe the abstract can be cleaned before being passed through the TTS-generator.
eg. for the line: "This paper concerns designing distributed algorithms that are {\em singularly optimal}"
the "em" ends up on the audio and is confusing. refer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02197
(also, ability to permalink to the paper on the papertime.app will help.)
Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
#4Hi all, I'm the original poster. I felt encouraged to do a Show HN for Paper Time after seeing positive feedback in a different, side projects related thread a few days back [1]. I'll be around for a while so go ahead and ask me any questions, either around the idea or the technical parts. A big shout out to the folks on HN who responded with very pertinent resources about UI design a few months back [2], when I'd ju…
nice abstraction for listening to abstracts! would really like a "curated playlist" option. The ability to filter based on "Topics" is a step in that direction and a further vetting down of options will make the app more usable. nitpick: the TTS ends up pronouncing the markup as well. maybe the abstract can be cleaned before being passed through the TTS-generator. eg. for the line: "This paper concerns designing dist…
Haha, had never thought of it as an abstraction over abstracts! Thanks for the detailed feedback.
The TTS cleanup ought to become one of my top priorities. I’ve heard a lot of $k$ (dollar k dollar) is etc. I’m guessing it’s LaTeX markup bleeding over into the abstract text rendering somehow.
I am not able to figure out how to curate a list, since I’m just processing Arxiv papers as they come in! One option is to provide papers accepted at conferences.
Another is to let people upvote, but I fear voting dynamics can get messy. Also, without sufficient users, voting isn’t of much use.
I’ll see how I can implement permalinks. I’m not too familiar with doing that in single page apps so I need to work on it. Related question: would you like to be able to star/bookmark papers so that you can come back to them?
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#6If I click on play on multiple papers, all play simultaneously. Is this something expected or a bug?
Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
#7Hi all, I'm the original poster. I felt encouraged to do a Show HN for Paper Time after seeing positive feedback in a different, side projects related thread a few days back [1]. I'll be around for a while so go ahead and ask me any questions, either around the idea or the technical parts. A big shout out to the folks on HN who responded with very pertinent resources about UI design a few months back [2], when I'd ju…
Great work!
Some other feature recommendations:
1. A daily RSS feed - perhaps it could compile them into a 'single' podcast.
2. Human voice uploads - allow readers to upload their own voice (would require moderation - but would solve most pronunciation issues caused by TTS). You could randomly assign some number of articles to each moderator to read.
Again, great work - this has given me some ideas!
Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
#8Hi all, I'm the original poster. I felt encouraged to do a Show HN for Paper Time after seeing positive feedback in a different, side projects related thread a few days back [1]. I'll be around for a while so go ahead and ask me any questions, either around the idea or the technical parts. A big shout out to the folks on HN who responded with very pertinent resources about UI design a few months back [2], when I'd ju…
Nice, looks great! Could you give any thoughts on which of those resources in [2] were particularly useful for you? I have a similar backend background and interest in learning about UI design!
BTW a small issue but opening and closing your FAQ modal seems to be pushing URL history - which means you have to hit back repeatedly to exit the page if you interact with it. It doesn’t look like having the modal open and then going back closes it, so I think you could just drop the URL push without losing functionality.
Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
#9If I click on play on multiple papers, all play simultaneously. Is this something expected or a bug?
That is a known bug. Actually I haven’t even come around to fixing such issues yet.
Another thing you should probably (not!) try: Click Play on a paper and click on Next/Prev :) The only way you can recover from that is by refreshing the page. Sorry about these rough edges as of now.
Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast
#10Hi all, I'm the original poster. I felt encouraged to do a Show HN for Paper Time after seeing positive feedback in a different, side projects related thread a few days back [1]. I'll be around for a while so go ahead and ask me any questions, either around the idea or the technical parts. A big shout out to the folks on HN who responded with very pertinent resources about UI design a few months back [2], when I'd ju…
Great work! Some other feature recommendations: 1. A daily RSS feed - perhaps it could compile them into a 'single' podcast. 2. Human voice uploads - allow readers to upload their own voice (would require moderation - but would solve most pronunciation issues caused by TTS). You could randomly assign some number of articles to each moderator to read. Again, great work - this has given me some ideas!
Thanks!
Daily RSS feed sounds like a good idea. RSS used to have the concept of media enclosures or something. Perhaps if I can embed the audio into that, people can listen right there? On the other hand, that will have fewer people visiting the website :D Heh.
2. My somewhat long term product idea is to let the paper submitters volunteer to read out their abstracts, if they choose. But some amount of automated TTS will always remain, given the sheer volume of content.