Ask HN: What articles from HN would you like to have read to you by humans?

Posted by cristinabunea on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:31PM
from the ask-hn dept.

A few friends and I are building these apps and we want to narrate the most popular links from HN. Any requests are welcomed.

iOS app: https://apple.co/2G7BF7q Android app: https://bit.ly/32p9zhc Web app: https://www.listle.io

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Re:Ask HN: What articles from HN would you like to have read... by erikig on Friday August 30, 2019 @08:41AM (#20837953)

I'd really love to listen to The New Yorker and The Atlantic long read articles, even the ones I've enjoyed before for their beauty or insightfulness.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/15/the-semplica-g...

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Re:Ask HN: What articles from HN would you like to have read... by erikig on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:22AM (#20838295)

I just installed the app and I'm a fan. I have some suggestions:

- Please add a "Skip Back" of 10 or 15 sec. I often zone out and miss a few sentences and the playback/progress bar isn't quite accurate in skipping back.

- Please integrate the audio controls into the iOS media controls

- (Maybe) allow previewing some audio before requesting account creation. I almost abandoned the install at that spot.

Cheers on launching an awesome set of apps!

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Re:Ask HN: What articles from HN would you like to have read... by radumazilu on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:31PM (#20843322)

Hey! The first two features you mentioned will be available in the next release (today or tomorrow). Thanks for the feedback.

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Re:Ask HN: What articles from HN would you like to have read... by erikig on Friday August 30, 2019 @08:42AM (#20837967)

Out of curiousity, how conversational does the content sound? Is it better that the quality from HTML5 text to speech or Amazon Polly?

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Re:Ask HN: What articles from HN would you like to have read... by cristinabunea on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:44PM (#20841363)

All of the articles that we have on the platform are human-read. There is, however, the request functionality where you copy / paste the link to an article and it gives you an AI narration (using Polly).

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Re:Ask HN: What articles from HN would you like to have read... by mtmail on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:39PM (#20834414)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r... (in Patrick's voice)

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