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I assume there are a number of Youtube channels doing something like this already - I occasionally notice that an otherwise well-researched and presented item h
by lifeisstillgood 5y ago
I assume there are a number of Youtube channels doing something like this already - I occasionally notice that an otherwise well-researched and presented item has a non-English idiom - such that even a fluent speaker would self-correct.
I guess the idea is to write one and just "release" it in many languages.
The point of all that is, yeah, computer generated voice has gotten to the point I need dumb mistakes to realise ... one of those "the tech has passed an inflection point" moments
- phreeza 5y agoI think I know the type of video you mean, I always assumed they were not TTS but professional speakers hired on Fiver and obliged to speak the text verbatim even though there are weird phrases.
- AYBABTME 5y agoAnd yet apps that leverage this are quasi absent. The Firefox screen reader widget is good but the voices are limited and the functionality limited to well formatted pages. E-book software seems to not integrate this tech either.
- busymom0 5y agoMy hacker news client HACK has both reader mode for articles as well as read text to speech for articles and comments. It's brand new so feedback is welcome: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.hack https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...
- hopesthoughts 5y agoI wouldn't use something like that myself. I use NVDA full time. If you actually need a screen reader, you probably want something more advance than a browser widget. https://www.nvaccess.org/ https://www.nvaccess.org/
- AYBABTME 5y agoI don't _need_ screen readers in so far as I can still read with my eyes, but I can read content quite a lot faster with it, and finish reading stuff I otherwise wouldn't, using spoken text instead.