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It's down. Does anyone have a cached version or short TL;DR what i am missing out ?
Seems to be up for me still. Basically it reads text to speech of each article on the front page of HN. Kinda like Hacker News Radio almost.
I've been doing something similar on my iPhone for awhile:
1. Send articles to Pocket
2. Highlight article
3. Two-finger tap to bring up context menu then tap Speak
With TTS voice speed set to 1.6x and British Female and it's a good way to wake up in the morning and absorb in wikipedia entries or news.
It's a cool service. Right now, I send articles to Pocket so it can be read to me.
I'd also be awesome if this was a Shoutcast stream that also had live people doing shows as well.
Edit: Also, switch voices between entries, and continue reading entires one after the next.
Did you build SoundGecko or you built a Hacker News channel on SoundGecko? It's a cool service. Right now, I send articles to Pocket so it can be read to me.
I find I don't have enough time to read all the stuff on Hacker News, but I spend heaps of time on the train where I’m usually listening to music. Since I work at a startup doing some stuff with text-to-speech, I hacked together this text-to-speech "radio station" so I can listen to Hacker News on my mobile instead of music. It uses native HTML5 audio that worked fine with iOS and Android in my testing (though some O…
Re. HTML5 audio, until recently Chrome for Android had a problem where if you closed the screen/changed tab it would cease the audio playback.
With the new Chrome Beta app, it solves this. Download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.bet... - hopefully after testing this change will be pushed to standard Chrome.
Just sayin' :)
I'm finding it hard to follow the TTS (but it's growing on me) but the core idea is superb and I'm catching interesting snippets. Changing the TTS voice between items is a genius idea I'd have never thought of myself but it really helps divide it up and keeps my attention. A suggestion, perhaps, is to lean on tldr.io's system of providing well written short summaries of Hacker News items rather than the actual conten…
Yeah I came across tldr.io the other day and really like the concept. Would love an introduction. PS: the codename of the backend that powers all this is actually "tldr" since I can't be stuffed reading :)