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I am a grad student and I was going for something similar with converting papers to text which could then be used in an audio app like speechify with this - htt

I am a grad student and I was going for something similar with converting papers to text which could then be used in an audio app like speechify with this - https://github.com/kanodiaayush/make-doc-listenable https://github.com/kanodiaayush/make-doc-listenable . I love the idea of this and will try it out, good luck!

adi4213 3y ago
Thank you so much for your comment! I'm looking at your repo and it looks really cool! Our backend is an ensemble of a few different things, but I explored using `poppler`, `PyPDF2` and other libraries+services as well! I'm really glad to see how accessible writing a service to extract text, meaningfully process it, and generate nice sounding audio is! I hope that Oration provides a nice enough UI/UX for users to enjoy - but it's been fantastic see a lot of open source work in this area. PDF is certainly not an ideal format to use so ubiquitously but I don't see that changing all that soon - particularly in academic settings. I'd love to chat more about this if you don't mind shooting me an email! support [at] trurecord.com
doomrobo 3y ago
Also grad student. I use Voice Dream reader on my devices and it's helped a lot with reading dense texts https://www.voicedream.com/ https://www.voicedream.com/
- iamcreasy 3y ago
  I'd love to know the difference if you get a chance to compare these two.
  - adi4213 3y ago
    I don't know Winston (VoiceDream developer) personally, but there a bunch of things that impress me about both his product and himself. On the product side - it's long been a well established app in the space. I think it's been out for 10+ years, offers a lot of voice options, handles a lot of input document formats, has good support for offline playback, and has been well featured in a bunch of publications. I was also very impressed when I read this : https://www.voicedream.com/macos-reader-subscription/ https://www.voicedream.com/macos-reader-subscription/ I really admire Winston for bootstrapping VoiceDream for so long - his initial users bought the iOS app for $2 and he has held true to continuing to provide them with the feature set that grew considerably since the app's origins. His blog post also details how he was on vacation when VoiceDream had a P0/downtime issue and he caught the first flight back to address this, motivated by many users who really depended on the app (such as students studying for exams). There is a ton to admire here.
    - orand 3y ago
      Winston sold the app last year, and it's being maintained by new developers now. https://www.perkins.org/resource/changes-with-voice-dream-apps/ https://www.perkins.org/resource/changes-with-voice-dream-ap...

adi4213 3y ago

Thank you so much for your comment! I'm looking at your repo and it looks really cool! Our backend is an ensemble of a few different things, but I explored using `poppler`, `PyPDF2` and other libraries+services as well! I'm really glad to see how accessible writing a service to extract text, meaningfully process it, and generate nice sounding audio is! I hope that Oration provides a nice enough UI/UX for users to enjoy - but it's been fantastic see a lot of open source work in this area. PDF is certainly not an ideal format to use so ubiquitously but I don't see that changing all that soon - particularly in academic settings. I'd love to chat more about this if you don't mind shooting me an email! support [at] trurecord.com

doomrobo 3y ago

Also grad student. I use Voice Dream reader on my devices and it's helped a lot with reading dense texts https://www.voicedream.com/ https://www.voicedream.com/

iamcreasy 3y ago
I'd love to know the difference if you get a chance to compare these two.
- adi4213 3y ago
  I don't know Winston (VoiceDream developer) personally, but there a bunch of things that impress me about both his product and himself. On the product side - it's long been a well established app in the space. I think it's been out for 10+ years, offers a lot of voice options, handles a lot of input document formats, has good support for offline playback, and has been well featured in a bunch of publications. I was also very impressed when I read this : https://www.voicedream.com/macos-reader-subscription/ https://www.voicedream.com/macos-reader-subscription/ I really admire Winston for bootstrapping VoiceDream for so long - his initial users bought the iOS app for $2 and he has held true to continuing to provide them with the feature set that grew considerably since the app's origins. His blog post also details how he was on vacation when VoiceDream had a P0/downtime issue and he caught the first flight back to address this, motivated by many users who really depended on the app (such as students studying for exams). There is a ton to admire here.
  - orand 3y ago
    Winston sold the app last year, and it's being maintained by new developers now. https://www.perkins.org/resource/changes-with-voice-dream-apps/ https://www.perkins.org/resource/changes-with-voice-dream-ap...