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Maybe not a podcast, but I've often wished I could listen to a paper or an article while on a long drive

by culi 2y ago

phemartin 2y ago
You may enjoy the product I've been working on...[0] it lets you listen to articles and subscribe to any website. [0] https://playtext.app https://playtext.app
- theologic 2y ago
  Cool app. The biggest issue for me is the voice sounds very much like the typical system voice apps, when we are seeing such leaps and bounds in the voice quality. But your interface is simple and nice.
- totetsu 2y ago
  I would love an RSVP reader mode for this.
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- culi 2y ago
  That's cool, but I guess I was specifically looking for something more advanced than basic text-to-speech (which most browsers nowadays have built in and can be achieved in 2 lines of JavaScript[0]). I was specifically looking for high quality natural speech sounding generated audio. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...
slashdave 2y ago
Could be me, but the amount of attention I need to reserve in order to properly read and understand a technical paper makes this idea rather scary.
- culi 2y ago
  Yeah technical papers probably wouldn't be a good use case. And definitely not what I had in mind. I was thinking about thinkpieces and older books that missed the audiobook trend
panarky 2y ago
A great way to learn something is to listen to a conversation among two to four well informed and articulate people, where each person has a memorable personality and each person has a different perspective about the topic. This Google Illuminate experiment shows how just listening to two voices discuss a technical paper for three minutes is far more effective than reading a three-minute AI summary of the paper. Imagine if there were three or four voices, with varied personalities, more humor and sarcasm, different priorities and points of view, and even a little disagreement. Then imagine you're not just listening to the conversation, but you're participating in it. That seems like a pretty amazing way to learn.
- jmcmaster 2y ago
  I have a nonfiction draft built on conversations between 4 friends. Started as a regular nonfiction book but quickly realized the desired mainstreet audience would never read it. I created personas (as in UX style goal-directed design personas) to describe each character’s background, POV, goals, expertise, values, concerns and questions. Different than anything else I’ve ever written. Still very rough but rewarding.
OutOfHere 2y ago
Lookup podgenai.
wholinator2 2y ago
I've also been really interests in finding a way to make ai tts able to read equations. I'm currently pursuing my phd in physics and i listen to tts of textbooks in the gym. There just aren't human podcasts over the thing i need to learn right now for class, but if that dang tts could only read equations I'd be set!

Maybe not a podcast, but I've often wished I could listen to a paper or an article while on a long drive

by culi 2y ago

Maybe not a podcast, but I've often wished I could listen to a paper or an article while on a long drive

You may enjoy the product I've been working on...[0] it lets you listen to articles and subscribe to any website. [0] https://playtext.app https://playtext.app

theologic 2y ago
Cool app. The biggest issue for me is the voice sounds very much like the typical system voice apps, when we are seeing such leaps and bounds in the voice quality. But your interface is simple and nice.
totetsu 2y ago
I would love an RSVP reader mode for this.
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
culi 2y ago
That's cool, but I guess I was specifically looking for something more advanced than basic text-to-speech (which most browsers nowadays have built in and can be achieved in 2 lines of JavaScript[0]). I was specifically looking for high quality natural speech sounding generated audio. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...

slashdave 2y ago

Could be me, but the amount of attention I need to reserve in order to properly read and understand a technical paper makes this idea rather scary.

culi 2y ago
Yeah technical papers probably wouldn't be a good use case. And definitely not what I had in mind. I was thinking about thinkpieces and older books that missed the audiobook trend

panarky 2y ago

A great way to learn something is to listen to a conversation among two to four well informed and articulate people, where each person has a memorable personality and each person has a different perspective about the topic. This Google Illuminate experiment shows how just listening to two voices discuss a technical paper for three minutes is far more effective than reading a three-minute AI summary of the paper. Imagine if there were three or four voices, with varied personalities, more humor and sarcasm, different priorities and points of view, and even a little disagreement. Then imagine you're not just listening to the conversation, but you're participating in it. That seems like a pretty amazing way to learn.

jmcmaster 2y ago
I have a nonfiction draft built on conversations between 4 friends. Started as a regular nonfiction book but quickly realized the desired mainstreet audience would never read it. I created personas (as in UX style goal-directed design personas) to describe each character’s background, POV, goals, expertise, values, concerns and questions. Different than anything else I’ve ever written. Still very rough but rewarding.

OutOfHere 2y ago

Lookup podgenai.

wholinator2 2y ago

I've also been really interests in finding a way to make ai tts able to read equations. I'm currently pursuing my phd in physics and i listen to tts of textbooks in the gym. There just aren't human podcasts over the thing i need to learn right now for class, but if that dang tts could only read equations I'd be set!