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What's the best tool for listening to articles?

Medium just launched audio stories, which seems like a cool feature! But it's a members-only feature. There are alternatives out there... what's your favorite?

Niv DrorWriter/Social Editor @ProductHunt · Asked 2d ago

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Play (for Medium)

Listen to Medium articles with a Chrome Extension

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Niv DrorWriter/Social Editor @ProductHunt · Written 2d ago

This seems like a very popular Chrome extension for listening to articles. Did well in the Product Hunt launch 😊

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Kunal BhatiaCo-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp · Written 1d ago

I use Play.ht for providing audio for my Medium readers. They are robotic voices, but it gets the job done and it's very easy to get started. You can even embed the player inside your own articles.

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keyulMaker of Bot Stash, Product Huntian · Written 2d ago

I was going to recommend this when I saw the question. But you already did. This is definitely the best extension to listen to Medium articles.

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Medium Audio Stories

Listen to your favorite Medium stories

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Niv DrorWriter/Social Editor @ProductHunt · Written 2d ago

The product looks super well done, and seems like the first real value feature in the Medium Members upgrade. Wondering what @rrhoover things as he is a member :-)

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Pocket Listen

Reading is hard. Listen to articles instead.

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Ben TossellCommunity Lead, Product Hunt · Written 2d ago

I use Pocket A LOT so I tend to get a lot of backed up content to get through. Sometimes its easier to use Pocket listen. Although the voice is fairly robot-y

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Tattle

Listen to your news stories, narrated by humans

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KateCommunity @ Product Hunt · Written 2d ago

Instead of reading the news, enjoy it being read to you! Plus, it's read to you in a friendly human voice (instead of a robot voice, because as much as I like Alexa and Siri, they don't have the same finesse).

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Volume

Listen to startup and tech focused Medium stories

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Nick Abouzeid🕴Social & Growth Intern @ProductHunt · Written 2d ago

These are just tech articles sourced from Medium and run through IBM's Watson text to speech generator. Not as natural as a normal audiobook/podcast, but they do the trick.

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FromTexTtoSpeech

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Oleg I. GalkinFounder of VideoWorkLink.com · Written 2d ago

Good voices. Just copy text of an article and paste it there.

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Audm

The world's best longform journalism, read aloud.

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ryanCofounder, Audm · Written 2d ago

ryan made this product

Audm is an iOS app that lets you listen to audio versions of longform feature articles from publishers like The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, ProPublica, Outside Magazine, Foreign Policy, and London Review of Books. The stories are read by audiobook narrators.

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Nathan BashawCo-founder and CEO of Hardbound · Written 15h ago

I love Audm! It's the only way I can get through long David Frum pieces in The Atlantic :)

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Audiofy

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Ayush Mittalbro @boombro, Founder RefR ✌ · Written 2d ago

Been using Play for Medium and sometimes Audiofy while driving. Ability to connect with Pocket/Instapaper, save from Safari/Chrome or Discover the latest feed. Voice is not as great as Play.

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Rightspeed

Listen to audiobooks at ridiculously fast speeds

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Jake CrumpCommunity Team with Product Hunt · Written 2d ago

This is super helpful for anyone who doesn't have a ton of time, but still wants to enjoy audiobooks.

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Narro

The simplest way to listen to the web

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JoshVP Eng @ThreadMeUp, Founder @NarroApp · Written 2d ago

Josh made this product

Narro has been doing this longer than the others and is continuing to release new features and voices!

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DuoBook

Switch between reading and listening to the same story

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Nick Abouzeid🕴Social & Growth Intern @ProductHunt · Written 2d ago

DuoBook works wonderfully - you can switch back and forth between reading & listening, which makes it perfect for someone who has a hard time dedicating time to just listening to a book 😅

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Voice Dream

Best Text to Speech App

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LekanBFounder @ SpaceHQ.co · Written 2d ago

I use this everyday. Look past the old school design, this is the BEST TTS app. Integrates with Pocket, Google Drive and reads PDF's too.

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@Voice Aloud Reader

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Heinrich TessendorfCOO · Written 2d ago

Voice Aloud Reader is still the only app I've ever paid for, just because I received so much value from the free, ad supported version. It plays almost any file type, syncs with Pocket, Dropbox, Google Drive and it's really easy to skip or go back a sentence or paragraph.

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