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Hi! Yes, the premium voices are Kokoro. I’m only exposing the English voices right now because the rest of the pipeline around them is English-first and custom, especially pronunciation/G2P, QA, and timestamp awareness. I’d like to expand that over time, but I don’t want to overpromise multilingual support before the surrounding stack is ready. So I'm taking it one language at a time based on demand and feedback.

AI summaries are currently generated remote, not local. Those currently leverage gpt-4o-mini. TTS and OCR are on-device and summarization is the cloud-backed feature.

I like this approach and that it's so flexible and approachable. My nit for the site would be to explain it a bit better - it's a bit hard to grok with everything going on until I went to the repo. There's also opportunity for non-tech users here just using the agent skill but I'm not sure they'll understand the use if they read through the site.

I had made a skill for something similar to use just HTML5, Canvas and JavaScript, and export the video to MP4 (https://github.com/siegerts/skill-canvas-video).

Show HN: Readox – Turn web pages and PDFs into a playable reading queue

https://readox.ai/

Readox is a Chrome extension that reads web pages, PDFs, selections, text files (ie markdown), and text input notes aloud with TTS.You can just play the current page, or save things to a library and queue them up. It highlights as it reads, keeps your place across items, and can OCR scanned PDFs. TTS (for text and PDF) and OCR run on-device, and it works offline after setup.I’m interested on...

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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:28AM (#47794680)
Agree. I keep effort max on Claude and xhigh on GPT for all tasks and keep tasks as scoped units of work instead of boil the ocean type prompts. It is hard to measure but ultimately the tasks are getting completed and I'm validating so I consider it "working as expected".
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:25AM (#47794617)
I enjoy switching back and forth and having multi-agent reviews. I'm enjoying Codex also but having options is the real win.
Re:One Method Was Using 71% of CPU. Here's the Flame Graph on Thursday April 09, 2026 @08:53PM (#47712239)
Part 2 of 3 in the Java Performance Optimization series.
Also, just created an agent skill to help with finding/exporting the data:

`npx skills add siegerts/agent-transcript`

https://github.com/siegerts/agent-transcript

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