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If you’re an iOS user, try https://oration.app
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We built Oration ( https://oration.app ) to improve on issues like this. It also generates a summarized version
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Give oration ( https://oration.app ) a try! It’s cheaper and many of our users found it a better option than Listening
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Thanks! The bulk of the cost is using OpenAI’s text-to-speech API, which is $0.015 per 1,000 characters. Oration generates both a full and summarized audiobook as well. So far, I’ve found that service to provide a really good price and qua
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Audiobook summary of the paper : https://player.oration.app/ec4770f4-3c2e-47a5-8257-492c25369...
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Summary audiobook of the paper : https://player.oration.app/33ede964-b1be-439e-877a-2105254a9...
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Thank you so much for your comment! Apologies if my comment came off like an ad - I have mild dyslexia and struggle to keep up with ML papers; I hope others also find this useful! If you have any feedback or issues, feel free to email us a
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For the auditory learners, here is a summarized audiobook of this PDF : https://player.oration.app/c3feabfb-d437-4545-ae17-235d50d61...
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For the auditory learners, here is this paper in a summarized audiobook format : https://player.oration.app/09fefe41-f2a7-4257-a25e-30e479b30...
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Thank you! Great job with your project as well! I'd love to chat - can you send me an email? support [at] TruRecord.com?
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Something like a package of X Audiobook Conversions for $Y?
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Oration uses OpenAI's text-to-speech system, which I personally found to have superior quality to Apple's (but I also downloaded the upgraded Samantha voice and have been enjoying using it, so I appreciate the recommendation!)
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Thank you kindly for your incredibly helpful and constructive response. I apologize that you experienced these issues and I'll gladly put it some hard work today and this week to resolve this. > Menu options aren’t responsive, swipi
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Thank you for giving it a try and your comment! I'm sorry you ran into this - would you mind sending us an email at support [at] trurecord.com ? I'll look into what happened right away and fix
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> Can it handle large pdf of a book It very much can; however, the iOS app has a limit of 50 pages and an hourly limit of 5 uploads in our 'free tier'. I didn't want to rush to monetize the iOS app so I could really learn
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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 be
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> Really cool project. This will definitely help me read more papers. Can you share more on how the backend is parsing and converting text to speech? Thank you kindly! I'm really glad to hear this - this was exactly what I hoped for
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> For people looking for a free alternative (free for Apple users) Thanks for pointing this out. Fwiw we do hope to continue providing a useful free tier with users, I appreciate your comment because it leverages services that iOS/m
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Thank you kindly for your feedback! We're looking forward to putting some solid work in and make some good progress over the next couple of years. If you happen to have any feedback or feature wishes, we're definitely all ears!
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Thank you for your comment! We're actively working on releasing an Android app soon - we definitely didn't want to neglect Android and are aiming to ship a great experiences on the Play Store soon. We actually do have a preliminar
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Thank you for pointing this out! This was our service being a bit 'over-eager' at skipping citations. I'll be working on an update over the next couple of days to address this - that is, to ensure that key definitions are no
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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 real
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It's definitely a work in progress - but something that active development is being focused around. The way this is being handled in an upcoming update involves a few things - an OCR tool identifies math formulas, applies a bounding bo
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I appreciate you trying it out and sorry that this was your experience! I'd be more than happy to look into what happened if you wouldn't mind sending an email : support [at] trurecord.com At the moment, the free trial has a limi
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I'm sorry, I didn't make this clear! You very much own the audio generated! That was my intention from the beginning and will make sure that the app along with our terms and services reflect this prominently. I'll make some
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Show HN: Oration (iOS) turns pdfs into audiobooks
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For the auditory learners, here is this paper in a summarized Audiobook format : https://player.oration.app/1960399e-ccb0-44f6-81f0-870ef7600...
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Thanks for catching that, we’ll get those links fixed. Fundamentally this is like running SQL queries from slack, but only via natural language - and not by raw SQL. The service can only perform reads against a database, so a drop table qu
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Show HN: A GPT-3 powered slack app to get data insights using plain English
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- Wake up ~6am and go for a 3 mile walk with my dogs - Ice Bath and Sauna : I like to spend about 15-20 min in the 180°+F sauna and then about 1-5 min in the 40-60°F ice bath (temp. varies depending on how much ice I put in. 60 lbs. of ice
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