Epilude
Local voice dictation, text-to-speech and notetaker for Mac
262 followers
Local voice dictation, text-to-speech and notetaker for Mac
262 followers
Dictate polished, formatted text into any text field. Capture meeting notes without any bot joining your call. Turn any text on your Mac into audio for the walk home. All processed privately on your Mac.
This is the 3rd launch from Epilude. View more
Epilude Narrator
Launching today
Narrator reads selected text, documents, web pages, and images aloud on your Mac. Choose an on-device or cloud voice and follow every word.
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Hey Product Hunt, Gustav here from Epilude. Epilude is the voice productivity suite for your Mac we wish Apple would build, with dictation, meeting recording and now, text-to-speech with voices you'll actually like listening to with Narrator.
Today we're expanding Epilude with Narrator, a completely private text-to-speech tool that narrates any test on your Mac without any of your data leaving your machine.
Here's how it works:
- Select any text in any app on your Mac, or point it at a document or public URL (like that article you're interested in but never found time to sit down and read). Narrator will process the text locally using our local voice model EP-1 voice, and turn it into a narrated sound clip without any data leaving your Mac.
- As your narration starts, a small player appears and reads your text aloud, highlighting each word as it reads to you. We've found this often helps a lot with comprehension, as you can both listen to the text and read along at the same time.
- You can send your narration to your Epilude account on web, so that you can access it from anywhere and listen when you're on the go. This also lets you share your narrations with anyone you want.
You can try Narrator completely for free. We're really excited for you to try it out. Happy listening!
Hey Product Hunt - Mark here, the other half of Epilude.
I've had the same dozen articles open in tabs for months, fully intending to read them. These days I select one before I leave the desk, Narrator turns it into audio on the Mac, and I listen to it while walking the dog. I've got through more of them in the last few weeks than in the previous year.
Yogi has now sat through three longreads on Postgres indexing. Not sure she's convinced. Would be good to hear what you make of it.
P.S. of course this was written with Epilude 😉
I like that the dictation works in any text field instead of being limited to one app. The formatting part is a nice touch too.