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Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by d2clon on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:39AM (#25251262)
Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by siddienahar on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:56AM (#25254335)
I just tried it but didn't like the experience. My reading speed is variable, I read slow when I want to internalize the idea v/s I skim through when I am probably reading a novel. At so many points I wanted to pause and re-read the para or think about what he said but listening to the audio didn't really allow for that. PG essays are usually of such kind.

I suspect I won't even enjoy audiobooks too for the same reason. I won't be able to accelerate or slow down at my will.

But I congratulate you for building it and I'm sure it'd be useful for others.

Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by purplecats on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:41AM (#25262995)
I had an identical experience.
Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by mritchie712 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:43PM (#25247905)
Thanks for making this. I've started to do this several times, but never finished it. I was going to use Google's Text-to-Speech[0]. What did you go with?

0 - https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech

Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by jazz3020 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:10PM (#25249383)
Hey, you're welcome. I used AWS Polly.
Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by alexellisuk on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:32AM (#25266673)
It's convincing, I was not quite sure if it was machine-generated.
Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by jazz3020 on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:50PM (#25258086)
Hey, guys! Unfortunately, PG would like me to take it down. So it will no longer be available, but you can use https://audiblogs.com to listen to web articles privately.
Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by mritchie712 on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:50AM (#25304531)
Did he give a reason? I thought this was awesome.
Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by alexellisuk on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:36AM (#25266717)
This one "Default Alive or Default Dead?" - didn't seem to work, it's just 2 mins vs the full text... OK it's an advert for the Listle app (dislike this trick/advert)
Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by alexellisuk on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:31AM (#25266664)
Some of Paul's essays are _long_, so this is welcome. Is there a way to get this on Google Podcasts?
Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by youeseh on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:55PM (#25250320)
This is really cool - I've subscribed to the Podcast. Thank you!

Did you need to get permission from PG to do this?

Re:Show HN: Paul Graham Audio Essays by jazz3020 on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:00AM (#25253724)
Uhh- I reached out to PG a few times but didn't get a response. So I just left him a note saying that I would take it down if he wants.