Liso - Highlight text on any page and turn it into audio.
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Highlight any article, newsletter, blog post, or page on the internet. Liso instantly turns it into beautiful audio. Your personal audiobook, built from the things you actually want to read.
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Dial
the highlight-to-audio idea is clean but I'd worry about the TTS quality on the actual highlighted snippets - people usually highlight the dense, jargon-heavy sentence, not the easy one. does the voice engine handle stuff like code terms, acronyms, or a string of numbers/stats gracefully, or does it start mispronouncing things once the text gets technical?
Liso
@omri_ben_shoham1 well im not sure how you want code to be read out lol but as far as numbers go there has been no problems, matter of fact you can try it out and let me know)
I personally will not use this because I do not wear airpods or headphones when I work. BUT when I saw the description, I was IMPRESSED! This is super cool! I would use this if was more conversational. Like if i asked something about the page and it responded.
Liso
@saderod I don't wear them at times as well, but it's a nice thing when you are at home and not in a big cafe or something like that. That is an interesting thought and might be something to include in the next update.
Turning highlighted text into audio is a nice fit for newsletters and long reads. How does Liso handle inline code, tables, or footnotes in an article? Those usually either get read out literally or dropped, which breaks the flow fast.
Liso
@christian_knaut gets read out the way you highlight them exactly :)