Ask HN: Review my app: tweetrad.io

Post by JacobAldridge » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 2:58 AM UTC

yesimahuman wrote: post #10

Okay that is awesome. I love the radio sound. One issue: When speaking the number $44B, it was pronounced as "4 B" as in "four bee"

Post by scorp » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:29 AM UTC

Post by hyperbovine » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 3:46 AM UTC

wsbail29 wrote: post #3

Tweetrad.io is a fun little side project that converts twitter feeds into audio using text to speech. We use a distributed network of converter bots to handle the work queue. Jobs are placed on the queue via api calls from the javascript client that interacts with twitter's search api directly in order to avoid rate limiting of a centralized search server. Our app server is a lightweight Sinatra service that handles…

Post by brown9-2 » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 4:19 AM UTC

wsbail29 wrote: post #3

Tweetrad.io is a fun little side project that converts twitter feeds into audio using text to speech. We use a distributed network of converter bots to handle the work queue. Jobs are placed on the queue via api calls from the javascript client that interacts with twitter's search api directly in order to avoid rate limiting of a centralized search server. Our app server is a lightweight Sinatra service that handles…

Post by wensing » Wed, Nov 04, 2009, 4:33 AM UTC