Auditus
Creative
text to speech audiobook conversion
SHOW HN2018
146points
53comments
#275of 2,155 in 2018
Top 13%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Design: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for blind and visually impaired readers
From 1 comment
This is great! I forwarded this to my girlfriend (who is blind) and she loves it.
gh02t on HN
Good idea and naming
From 2 comments
As a language nerd I would like to praise naming the project after a Latin past participle.
asveikau on HNLove the idea about the project. I tried to upload a Epub and got an error page. I tried 3 times and different voices. I look forward to seeing more of it and think it's an…
k4ch0w on HN
Objections
Upload of EPUB fails or redirects to a copy of homepage
From 2 comments
Love the idea about the project. I tried to upload a Epub and got an error page. I tried 3 times and different voices. I look forward to seeing more of it and think it's an…
k4ch0w on HNThis doesn't seem to be working. I have tried uploading a sample epub. After the epub is uploaded it sends me to a conversions page. That page is just a copy of the homepage.
thisisit on HN
Metamask phishing warning on the site
From 2 comments
I get a metamask (ETH Wallet) phishing warning on this site. Anyone else experience this?
lewi on HNMetamask warns me that this site is on the Ethereum phishing list...
archaeopteryx on HN
Generated voice sounds too smooth and unnatural
From 1 comment
Each conversion costs a couple dollars depending on length - cheaper than most audiobooks at the expense of human realism. You can listen to a sample of a human read version of…
Immortalin on HN
Site appears down or overloaded
From 2 comments
Looks like its down. I get a "The page you were looking for cannot be served." error.
hugozap on HNPlease email me the file, it should not be more than 15 min but the server's rather overloaded right now
Immortalin on HN
Requests
Support PDF files
From 2 comments
If you have any suggestions do let me know! I am currently working on adding support for PDF files, also considering adding a support for the new Google Wavenet speech synthesis…
Immortalin on HNAlso, you need to select the file type on the left, currently epub is the only option but PDF support is planned soon.
Immortalin on HN
Plain text or markdown input
From 2 comments
It looks good! Could you add a plain-text (or even markdown) field as an input option? I'd be interested in trying this with blog posts and magazine articles. (P.S. Kudos for the…
nirv on HNPlanned :)
Immortalin on HN
Synced text highlighting while reading
From 1 comment
I like your project, but I'd like it more if it was accompanied by a video of the text being highlighted as it is being read (a kind of dual modality reading - visual + audio). I…
visarga on HN
Wavenet voices
From 2 comments
I like your project, but I'd like it more if it was accompanied by a video of the text being highlighted as it is being read (a kind of dual modality reading - visual + audio). I…
visarga on HNIf you have any suggestions do let me know! I am currently working on adding support for PDF files, also considering adding a support for the new Google Wavenet speech synthesis…
Immortalin on HN
Questions
Typical wait from payment to delivery
From 1 comment
What is the typical wait from payment to delivery? I know you can't be specific, but just ballpark it (eg. a few minutes, a few hours, etc.). I'm not sure what the book's…
64738 on HN
Is it based on Amazon Polly
From 1 comment
Really neat solution. Is this in any way based on Amazon Polly?
iamjeff on HN
Alternatives named
Voice Dream (iOS)
From 1 comment
There are a few IOS apps that do this in real time. The best one by far is 'Voice Dream' and they use the same voices. It is basically and audiobook in your pocket anytime,…
deepakb358 on HN
narro.co
From 1 comment
It's really cool to see the applications made possible by the high quality, reasonably priced, and fairly licensed text-to-speech APIs offered by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.…
eejdoowad on HN
doc2audiobook
From 1 comment
Hey, I just created a similar application using the Cloud Text-To-Speech API from Google and the textract (https://textract.readthedocs.io) library to extract text from lots of…
danthelion on HN
atVoice (Android)
From 1 comment
On Android there is http://www.hyperionics.com/atVoice/ which I really like and which seems on a similar level (at least judging by the example).
llao on HN