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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by BooneJS on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:00PM (#16410222)
A reading list that I'll never be able to get through. Is there a service that turns reading lists to mp3s?
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by protomyth on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:21PM (#16410527)
Which platform are you on? I use a droplet on the Macintosh built with Automator.
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by kebman on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:02PM (#16410232)
On the Mac there's already a service that will read texts and PDF's etc. You may have to install similar things on your UX or Windoze computer.
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by sincerely on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:03PM (#16410234)
Do you not read faster than regular human speaking voice speed? (No shame if you do, just curious)
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by BooneJS on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:03PM (#16410466)
Not at all; the opposite, I think. As a new Silicon Valley resident, I spent 2 hours a day in a car and have really been enjoying Audible. A few years ago I found myself using Instapaper-to-Kindle. Now I need something-to-Audible. :/
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by protomyth on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:20PM (#16410525)
Some people like to listen to things while driving.
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by aspHax0 on Monday February 19, 2018 @02:32AM (#16411335)
You could save articles to Pocket, and then have it read it to you.
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Re:Ask HN: What has HN given you? by amygdyl on Sunday February 18, 2018 @09:10PM (#16410264)
Azure's cognitive services, particularly because you can spend the free development dollars for a start:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp...

I have been very pleased with customer reviews when we used the service to custom voicemail greetings per caller for a call center app, where the client was losing too many tickets to SPAM filters, before we could move them to a new SMTP server. And afterwards, too.

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