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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Me and Pocket:
Well done, @nateweiner and team. I haven't tried this out yet but robot readers have always been obnoxious to me (not for @nireyal) which is why I loved Umano, an app of articles read by professional narrators (recently acquired by Dropbox and shut down). Are you using the on-device text-to-speech or something proprietary?
Well done, @nateweiner and team. I haven't tried this out yet but robot readers have always been obnoxious to me (not for @nireyal) which is why I loved Umano, an app of articles read by professional narrators (recently acquired by Dropbox and shut down). Are you using the on-device text-to-speech or something proprietary? 9sharetweet・
Nate Weiner
@nateweiner
Thanks @rrhoover! The iOS version uses the system (Siri) voice. On Android you can use third party voices.
Umano was pretty cool. We looked at it and something we definitely still think about. The challenge was scaling it. We see millions of new articles a day in Pocket. That is a lot to get recorded :)
Plus we are working to just find a way to skip that whole listening step and just insert it into your brain. (Joking. Kind of. Maybe?)
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Arjun Ram
@arjunram · Tinkering Past:Investor & Product leader
@nateweiner Nate any plans to support Sonos? Would love to have long reads played on Sonos! Also given that you are using the iOS API - can you provide the time it might take to listen to an article? Thanks! @rrhoover
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Ryan Plumley
@rplumley
@nateweiner @rrhoover IAP for voices seems to work in other apps. Siri is very basic to me. Maybe personal preference for alternative accents
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@nateweiner haha, a few years ago I asked myself the question, "If I could make ONE thing more efficient, what would it be?" My answer was knowledge transfer. I want Matrix-like learning. 😁
My short blog post on the topic (add to your Pocket).
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Preslav Rachev
@preslavrachev · Full-Stack Software Engineer
@nateweiner Congrats on releasing TTS support for iOS! I have been enjoying it for ages on Android, not even assuming that it wasn't available on iOS until very recently. I guess, I am just curious to know what issues have prevented you guys from releasing it on iOS sooner. Were those technical issues, like lack of native TTS support, or something else?
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Mitali Pattnaik
@mitali · Co-founder @IntroHQ. pm @ TWTR, GOOG
@rrhoover @nateweiner - this is the BEST upgrade to one of my favoritest apps ever. Thank you! I agree professional narrators would be better at some point but this is already amazing as a start.
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Josh
@twandjosh · VP Eng @ThreadMeUp, Founder @NarroApp
@rrhoover If you liked Umano, and are enjoying this basic speech for Pocket, you should try @narroapp for higher-quality voices and text-to-podcast support. It syncs with your Pocket account and everything! http://producthunt.com/tech/narro
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benburns
@benburns · Product Manager, Bose
@nateweiner @rrhoover For what it's worth, I would completely love (and pay for) narrated versions of just the most popular selections from my Pocket feed (the ones you've marked "Best Of", for instance.
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Blake Thomas
@bosblaket · Engineering, Product
Are there any plans to implement different (better) voices than siri for iOS?
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