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Once in a while I use the speech feature of Chrome on my MacOS to have it read articles to me while I work. It's clunky though, it only works (AFAIK) on highlig
by flanbiscuit 5y ago
Once in a while I use the speech feature of Chrome on my MacOS to have it read articles to me while I work. It's clunky though, it only works (AFAIK) on highlighted text which gets annoying on really long articles, and there's no pause so if I want to "pause" I need to stop it and then redo the highlight starting from where I paused (again, annoying with long articles).
I think I'll be using your service from now on! Browser/OS agnostic, no highlighting, and pausing!
Nice to haves:
- ability to pick a different voice
- playback speed controls
- maybe load the original article in an iframe below the player to be able to follow along
- soheil 5y agoAdded speed controls by hovering the mouse over the player: javascript:audio=document.createElement('audio');audio.controls=true;audio.autoplay=true;audio.src='https://per.quest/'+document.location.href;audio.style='position:fixed;right:0;top:0;height:revert;z-index:10000;';audio.onmousemove=(e)=>{audio.playbackRate=e.layerX>150?(e.layerX>250?0.55:0.75):(e.layerX<10?1.3:1);};document.body.appendChild(audio);