Very nice concept. I hadn't heard of SoundGecko. I'll need to check it out.
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#42Very nice concept. I hadn't heard of SoundGecko. I'll need to check it out.
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#43Loved it,though its still paining to work it flawless on my Dolphin browser. I'd be more happy if we had RSS feed for this station. I'd love to import that RSS directly in to my Pulse reader and consume all podcast right in to pulse without leaving.
EDIT: And, How to get this the hacker-news as my Soundgecko channel?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
longzheng, is there any way to be able to change articles? I'm on ff19, and clicking on a new article just continues the original article. Hovering over the left side of the article shows the "play" symbol, but clicking anywhere there just continues the original article. Not sure if this is a bug or not.
That's weird. It should definitely switch to the new article if you click the picture/play icon or the title. As a workaround, could you try "up/down" arrows? It's possible the HTML5 audio player in FF19 is buggy.
Yeah, doesn't work on FF19 even with the arrow keys. But it did work on Chrome Canary - must be a bug on FF.
edit: It looks like FF19 is complaining about the content-type: "audio/mpeg" when changing articles. Not sure what one it is using, but it does manage to play the first article only.
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#45Pretty 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 cannot replicate what you do on step 3. Nothing comes up.
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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.
Yeah. Came across Hacker News Radio before but the domain has since expired. Anyone know who was behind it?
A quick search revealed it was Hacker News user JSig.
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#47Thumbs up. I've been a fan of Long Zheng's work since his Taskforce Initiative (which inspired what I am doing now on the side). I use MetroTwit daily. And now I've got to take a closer look at SoundGecko.
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#48I've been waiting for this tech for years. The TTS is really not bad. Is this the same product interviewed on This Week In Startups a few weeks ago?
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I've pointed them to this thread to see what they think. Look forward to seeing this progress. (And as an aside, I really wish someone would crack the TTS 'uncanny valley' problem 100%. It's a surprisingly difficult problem.)
There's quite a difference between the "normal" voices in OSX, and the high-quality ones. If you have a few spare gigabytes, try out the French, Spanish, and Swedish versions. For my kids, it's at least a few minutes entertainment to make the computer speak high-quality foreign curse words. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20082143-263/how-to-ins...
I'd never noticed this before - cool! Samantha and Tom in the US English section sound particularly good.
The only major problem I seem to perceive is that the transitions between certain words and phones aren't smooth enough and are jarring. It doesn't sound like they're far off but I guess 90% of the work is in the last 10% ;-)
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#50I'd be awesome if this was on github so people could improve the parsing. For one, it reads stuff that is obviously not meant to be read "live", but are just informational tables. 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.
Yeah parsing is a tough challenge for something as diverse as Hacker News where the content could be anything between a thesis, a blog post, to a picture gallery. Will investigate Shoutcast but there might not be enough content to have a continuous stream of content. You'll be glad to know it already switches voices between entries and automatically plays the following entry :)
Could you integrate Readability or a similar service? Then the hard work of parsing out the meat of the page would be done for you.