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Re:Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio by kretaceous on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:11AM (#33732158)
I got super psyched to try this. Always wanted a good TTS extension or app.

However I cannot get it to work. I've logged in, input an article but nothing happens after I click "Convert article to audio" or preview.

Linux Mint/Firefox 107/Chrome

Edit:

I checked devtools and it shows a 500 error with the message "Something is broken. Please let us know what you did"

The link I was trying to convert was:

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-09-20-On-the-use-of-a-...

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Re:Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio by westcort on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:19AM (#33732265)
Here is a bookmarklet that does TTS: https://locserendipity.com/Speaker.html

Also: https://www.locserendipity.com/TTS.html

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Re:Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio by Paul_Grsl on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:22AM (#33733079)
Except that the quality of the audio rendering is... not crazy.
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Re:Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio by westcort on Thursday November 24, 2022 @02:56PM (#33735542)
It defaults to whatever your browser defaults to. It is easy to change that setting in Chrome to a more natural voice: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/11221616?hl=en
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Re:Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio by Paul_Grsl on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:21AM (#33733072)
I'm looking into how this can happen. Feel free to sign up to come back later and convert your article! I can't wait for you to use Article.Audio
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