This is so cute. I see you use UserVoice. Are you on a Free account for Tweet Radio?
Ask HN: Review my app: tweetrad.io
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#32"BreakingNews is excited to tell everyone that At least 17 people killed, 45 others injured after a passenger train collides with a freight train near Pakistan's Karachi."
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#33This is so cute. I see you use UserVoice. Are you on a Free account for Tweet Radio?
Yes we are. Thank you.
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#34I love it. We generate weather updates, which I'm used to hearing read by automated voices anyway. Now it's like we have our own staff of robots to do the same: http://tweetrad.io/?q=from%3Astormpulse Awesome.
Awesome. We are interested in learning about all the different use cases.
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#35I think TTS as a technology isn't quite there yet..
The radio sounds and overall UI/UX are brilliant though.
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#36It looks amazing, but it runs sooooo slow on my Ubuntu 9.10 Eeepc 701.
Is it the first tweet that's slow ? or overall tweet crawler ?
Thanks.
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#37Bugs/quirks:
* tried to check out the about section of your site, but the feed kept moving the footer down. Maybe lock the footer in place or put that info to the side of the feed.
* A few repeated/stuttered sections. I heard this a few times during reads, but there didn't seem to be any specific thing that caused it.
* Speech cuts off after :
Feature requests:
* Log in with twitter account. Then I can hear my friend updates.
* Customization options> voicing, announcements (says, wants it to be known, is excited... Sometimes they can get annoying)
* Pause button
* Literal reads (instead of says to @xxx, it could say ... says 'ar tee at xxxx, blah blah blah'
All in all I really like this site. It's beautifully done and is actually quite entertaining.
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#38Bugs/quirks: * tried to check out the about section of your site, but the feed kept moving the footer down. Maybe lock the footer in place or put that info to the side of the feed. * A few repeated/stuttered sections. I heard this a few times during reads, but there didn't seem to be any specific thing that caused it. * Speech cuts off after : Feature requests: * Log in with twitter account. Then I can hear my friend…
Thanks for the great feedback. I'm Looking into the bugs.
As for the feature requests, logging in to view your personal feed and the pause button are on our roadmap and should be added soon.
You make a good point about the lead-ins. We initially had a bunch of silly lead-ins, but we've been getting consistent feedback that we should just keep it simple. We've already trimmed down the lead-ins significantly. Sounds like we should keep trimming.
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#39cool! but please immediately implement a 'mute' button! :-)
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#40Tweetrad.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…
An iPhone app would be great. Especially if it could read tweets from your followers between songs, though I'm not sure if Apple gives you enough control over the iPod to do that.
That would be awesome, might be the best use case for Twitter yet! And yes, Apple lets you do that.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1665119/how-to-play-a-son...