This is amazing. Thank you.
Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to
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Re: Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to
#52Great Work! Aside from a few glitches this is fantastic! TTS is surprisingly fine.
Re: Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to
#53and if you want all of your Google Reader feeds read to you ... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feedspeakp...
Re: Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to
#54Great concept.
One suggestion off the top of my head is to allow for offline listening. Ie, configure soundgecko to get a snapshort of HN front page at say 5pm, TTS the front page contents, email the sound file as an attachment for listening.
This would be extremely useful for areas that has low mobile phone signal, or countries data plans are expensive or/and restrictive. (looking at you Australia!)
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#55Pretty cool in itself. Good demo of SoundGecko too. 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.
I agree, please clarify, because this sounds extremely useful. Within the Pocket app, if I tap on an article's title, it doesn't highlight, it opens. Then two-finger tap does nothing. Long tap in a paragraph highlights one word with the option to speak that word.
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#56Hi, this is a great idea, perfect for when I'm in transit. It would be nice if you could add a feature to control the speed of the voice. The output is way too slow for my liking
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is the audio streamed over cellular? It would be cool to preload clips over WiFi before hitting the road.
Yeah unfortunately there isn't a lot of control over HTML5 audio AFAIK. There is a preload option but it's specific to the individual element. Maybe as a hack I could change it so each article has a hidden somewhere that preloads it in the background, then when you actually play back it should use cache. I don't know if that's wise over a cell connection though, downloading all the MP3s.
Perhaps a better approach would be to add a "preload" button, and then use the hidden element as you suggested so we aren't loading audio we aren't interested in.
Another idea would be to add a personal user queue to do the same thing. Awesome site btw.
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#58So I just tried it with: Bascamp Personal, the Bascamp for all your projects outside of work.
For me the link bait was super obvious when read and kind of ruined it, at least in this case. It felt like they said Basecamp 150 times in less then 2 minutes.
Re: Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to
#59So I just tried it with: Bascamp Personal, the Bascamp for all your projects outside of work. For me the link bait was super obvious when read and kind of ruined it, at least in this case. It felt like they said Basecamp 150 times in less then 2 minutes.
Still very cool though! Good job.
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#60I wonder how difficult/viable it would be to crowd source actual people reading the articles? I am sure there must be radio journalist students who wouldn't mind reading pieces for feedback from listeners (on their reading?).