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Re:Launch HN: Listle (YC S19) – Listen to the Best Articles ... by vincentmarle on Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:44PM (#21083363)
> enable people to listen to any article on the Internet

> ... all read by humans

This is great, but also sounds kinda pricey and hard to scale? What is the business model behind this?

Re:Launch HN: Listle (YC S19) – Listen to the Best Articles ... by cristinabunea on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:00PM (#21083543)
Thanks for the interest. Right now, the AI request lets people listen to content from most links available online. Once we see there's demand for a particular article or domain, we create the human-read version of it too. In terms scalability, we've discovered there are a lot of people with really good voices who are interested in creating a portfolio of voice-over work. We made it very easy for them to generate and upload the audio of the articles every day, through a narrator platform. The business model will be based on a freemium subscription, with the paid version introducing premium features.
Re:Launch HN: Listle (YC S19) – Listen to the Best Articles ... by paulgb on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:54PM (#21084216)
How (if at all) are the authors and publications involved in the process?
Re:Launch HN: Listle (YC S19) – Listen to the Best Articles ... by hartator on Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:46PM (#21083397)
> This is great, but also sounds kinda pricey and hard to scale? What is the business model behind this?

Wonder when AI will be smart enough to sounds completely natural. I've listened to a generated audio from an AI that was almost there. Trying to have the right intonations and everything.

Re:Launch HN: Listle (YC S19) – Listen to the Best Articles ... by radumazilu on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:05PM (#21083594)
We do think it’s getting closer, but the very best text-to-speech, although good, is still not enjoyable to listen to for more than 10 minutes.