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Re: Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

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Post by robert18 »

SeaDude wrote: post #15

Hello, Very interesting. I've been using Edge's built-in voice reading a lot more recently for the exact case you mention on your homepage: listening while working. I have two questions for you after reading your TOS and Privacy Policy. I was expecting to see "you" scraping data from each site or otherwise monetizing the service, but nothing stood out. Either your TOS/PP is incorrect, or you don't have an obvious inc…

I think there are many services similar for free, they most probably have their own TTS

Re: Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

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Post by schoolparentins »

meetbryce wrote: post #16

What's the catch? How are you providing this for free.

I've also tried to see what was the catch but seems like they just want to make it for free, maybe to help people with disabilities. Or maybe the add payment features in the future

Re: Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

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Post by achairapart »

tiburon wrote: post #3

We created this free web app to convert articles to high-quality audio. Our mission is to help people with learning disabilities, those who prefer listening over reading, and who are always on the go to enjoy consuming your content online. Please give it a try and let us now what you think. Your feedback is highly appreciated :)

Since it's free, I wonder why don't you make it available as a browser extension instead of asking publishers and content creators to manually embed your service.

Re: Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

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Post by tiburon »

I'm not here to pitch the idea to make people like it, if you do not like it, be constructive on a given problem. To get a feeling more on how it feels on a blog here is an example: https://websitevoice.com/blog/text-to-speech-dyslexia-and-re...

if the solution does not appeal to you, it surely appeals to others.

Re: Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

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Post by tiburon »

SeaDude wrote: post #15

Hello, Very interesting. I've been using Edge's built-in voice reading a lot more recently for the exact case you mention on your homepage: listening while working. I have two questions for you after reading your TOS and Privacy Policy. I was expecting to see "you" scraping data from each site or otherwise monetizing the service, but nothing stood out. Either your TOS/PP is incorrect, or you don't have an obvious inc…

why it really matters on who I am? I'm a developer with passion to help people listen to podcasts and the idea was simple. How can I offer it for free? I do a lot of work to make it happen, there will be a premium version with more features which are being cooked with the help of many developers who loved the idea too.

Re: Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

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Post by tiburon »

nzealand wrote: post #14

I added it to an old unused part of my website. https://www.folj.com/lateral-solutions/ Apparently my javascript doesn't play nicely with programmatically injected elements. The Show All Solutions button still works.

good, at least you powered your blog with voice. happy to see it useful for you.

Re: Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

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Post by suyash »

tiburon wrote: post #26

I'm not here to pitch the idea to make people like it, if you do not like it, be constructive on a given problem. To get a feeling more on how it feels on a blog here is an example: https://websitevoice.com/blog/text-to-speech-dyslexia-and-re... if the solution does not appeal to you, it surely appeals to others.

Couldn't listen to it for more than 20 seconds, got quite robotic and monotone for me. This would be like flash and auto play videos, cool at first then most annoying thing ever created.

Re: Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

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Post by timClicks »

tiburon wrote: post #27
SeaDude wrote: post #15

Hello, Very interesting. I've been using Edge's built-in voice reading a lot more recently for the exact case you mention on your homepage: listening while working. I have two questions for you after reading your TOS and Privacy Policy. I was expecting to see "you" scraping data from each site or otherwise monetizing the service, but nothing stood out. Either your TOS/PP is incorrect, or you don't have an obvious inc…

why it really matters on who I am? I'm a developer with passion to help people listen to podcasts and the idea was simple. How can I offer it for free? I do a lot of work to make it happen, there will be a premium version with more features which are being cooked with the help of many developers who loved the idea too.

It matters because one of your potential customers thinks it matters. And presumably because services without a business model don't have a long future.
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