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Play (for Medium) - Listen to Medium Stories with a Chrome Extension

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Play.ht (for Medium) is a Free Chrome Extension to Listen to any article on Medium as an Audio Narration.

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This is awesome! Medium is one of my favorite sources of content. Audio is my favorite way to consume content. I get the best of both worlds now!
I like it. I aways have the need for something like this. Machine text to speech is not that great though. Not yet at least. Have you consider having real people reading the most popular posts?
Maker
Thanks Stefano, have you tried it? Actually, we tried many services to find the one with the best quality and not so "robotic" voices, something that we would love to use ourselves. But even if TTS is getting better, the human speech quality is still much better, we will try to mix both soon, so if a human-narrated audio available get it, otherwise TTS. The most important thing to us is to give a good user experience by providing an "instant" narration of any article.
Speech synthesis has come on leaps and bounds! Pity it doesn't have any info on the creators. Would be interesting to learn more.
Hunter
Trying to get them added ... they need the credit.
Maker
We are here. What would you like to know?
Great product
hehe excited! Especially given how much i love audible! Great job guys :)
This is actually pretty awesome. Medium podcasts? I'm in.
having a little trouble. doesnt seem to play on Chrome Version 53.0.2785.116 (64-bit)
Maker
Thanks for trying and reporting this, will check and push a fix asap
cool thanks
Awesome! Any way to increase the read speed though?
Maker
Yup, working on it!
YES! Thank you, can't wait.
That's absolutely should be a must for every publisher or blogging platform. I would love to see this kind of feature on all the readers app. For example added lately an option to listen to items but it not working so good. This is a great opportunity to change audience content consuming behavior and there's no reason to stop here and support only .
This mobile app is an alternative for automatic podcast generation of news sites:
iphone only =\
If you're looking beyond Medium right now, check out and
I use Medium every day, and this extension is amazing, very useful, it's a must have from now on! As a suggestion, when you open a Medium story, the Play tooltip explaining about the play button is popping up every time. Making it appear only 1 time (the first time after installation) == better ux. Second thing, more voices would be great as well as listening at 2x 3x speed and so on. Thanks for this! ^^
Maker
Thanks Enrique for your amazing suggestions. Speed and voices features are coming soon. Regarding the tooltip, just the point of it was to get the user's attention as it is a new feature for him, at the beginning without it, we noticed some users didn't know where is the button from the first time. But you're right we should make it appears fewer times.
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