Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL

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! Browser/OS agnostic, no highlighting, and pausing!

Nice to haves: - ability to pick a different voice - playback speed controls - maybe load the original article in an iframe below the player to be able to follow along

scraper gets data, send it to a TTS server or it could be just using browser's TTS feature

edit: tried it out it makes an MP3 file so yeah, one way to do it is with a service like AWS Polly that is not free.

command-line version:

  curl -L https://per.quest/$URL | mpv - # or aplay etc.

I became aware of a chrome extension that does this. Is there anything that the extension does that this can’t do?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speechify-for-chro...