One suggestion. I ran into a hiccup when I was setting up the Chrome extension. It asked for the API from my account. I copied the API and pasted it into the extension but it didn't seem to work when I tried sending an article. I went back to the extension setting and realized that when I pasted the API number it added it to the default text saying to go to listenlater for the api code. Once I manually deleted this and left the API key in everything worked. Maybe you can update so that when you click into the box to enter API the explanation text auto removes itself.
Listenlater.fm – A Read-It-Later service for your ears
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#32Neat, thanks for sharing! This looks somewhat similar to Herald (https://heraldpod.com/). Herald supports custom voices for paid users, as well as forwarding newsletters and having them read aloud. What kinds of additional features are on your roadmap?
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#33great! signed up and sent an email with an article. Not sure what happens next though. How do I start listening to it?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it seems to be using AWS Polly's "standard" Joanna voice. However, you can also use "neural" voices (basically enhanced with ML) which sound somewhat better. Here's Joanna in neural mode: http://no.gd/voice2.mp3 .. and here's a British female voice which sounds pretty good: http://no.gd/voice1.mp3 Neural voices are 4x the price of standard ones though! Standard is $4 per 1 million characters, neural is $16. https:…
I really wish I could use the Neural voices on this, but at $4 per million characters, I'm just beyond breaking even. Since this is a self-funded side project, I can't run at a loss, and I don't think you can reasonably charge more for the kind of service ListenLater.fm provides, but I'm really excited about the prices coming down in this area. For what it's worth, Google, Amazon, and basically everywhere else I've l…
My favorite neural voice is from azure - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
Jenny (neural) Customer service and newscast
I like Polly from an integration perspective but I’ve been searching for some as good as Azure Jenny.
Anyone found something as good or better?
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#35One suggestion. I ran into a hiccup when I was setting up the Chrome extension. It asked for the API from my account. I copied the API and pasted it into the extension but it didn't seem to work when I tried sending an article. I went back to the extension setting and realized that when I pasted the API number it added it to the default text saying to go to listenlater for the api code. Once I manually deleted this a…
Thanks for letting me know. I’ll definitely improve this.
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#36great! signed up and sent an email with an article. Not sure what happens next though. How do I start listening to it?
You can add the Podcast feed on the dashboard to your podcast player, and it will be available to listen shortly.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really wish I could use the Neural voices on this, but at $4 per million characters, I'm just beyond breaking even. Since this is a self-funded side project, I can't run at a loss, and I don't think you can reasonably charge more for the kind of service ListenLater.fm provides, but I'm really excited about the prices coming down in this area. For what it's worth, Google, Amazon, and basically everywhere else I've l…
My favorite neural voice is from azure - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service... Jenny (neural) Customer service and newscast I like Polly from an integration perspective but I’ve been searching for some as good as Azure Jenny. Anyone found something as good or better?
That's good. I honestly wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Neural Jenny and someone speaking in a customer-service tone of voice. It even has the implicit pause before the "or". Still $16/million though.
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#38I like listening to podcast but I prefer reading. With reading you can easily search and index text. So can't see why I would go with such a service
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#39The robotic voice is unfortunately a dealbreaker. I currently use https://read2me.online/ which uses the ML TTS voices from one of the big cloud providers....Google (I think). I then have a custom RSS file hosted on an S3 bucket. I hand crank the whole system when there's something new I want to listen to
> I currently use https://read2me.online/ Doesn't seem to be working. Putting a link returns "Bad request"; uploading a .txt file returns "Bad referrer/request type".
It's working fine, I just checked for both links and files.
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#40For some reason, I can happily listen to robotic voices for a very long period of time. I have listened to several books that way, when there isn't a good narrated version. In fact, apart from a few quirks (a pause at the "." of Mr. for instance), the iOS TTS engine sounds almost pleasant to me. It's no where near a good narrator, of course, but good enough if there is no poetic value in the words.
on android I use evie it lets you choose different speech engines pretty good https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lenntt.evo...
Thank you so much for sharing this. Game changer.