[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":521},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-5096653":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":44,"post_text":46,"what":47,"said":80,"maker_in_thread":235,"shape":246,"grid":249,"attempts":483,"same_week":484,"maker_shows":37,"maker_hidden":513,"reader_version":514,"card":515},"5096653","SoundGecko Hacker News station","A Hacker News radio web app I can listen to","title","Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to","http:\u002F\u002Fsoundgecko.com\u002Fstation\u002Fhacker-news","soundgecko.com","longzheng",1358855768,2013,315,85,29,1739,2,"legend","consumer_social","news reader audio","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"text to speech","hacker news","audio news","podcast","loved",0.289,{"positive":31,"neutral":16,"mixed":32,"critical":33},20,5,3,57,{"idea":36,"performance":38,"design":40,"execution":41,"pricing":42,"docs":43},{"positive":32,"critical":37},1,{"positive":33,"critical":39},0,{"positive":37,"critical":39},{"positive":37,"critical":18},{"positive":37,"critical":39},{"positive":39,"critical":39},[32,32,39,39,33,33,32,33,39,32,33,33,32,32,33,45,33,33,33,33,39,37,32,32,33,32,32,33,33,32,33,33,33,32,33,33,37,32,32,32],4,null,{"problem":48,"audience":55,"pricing":46,"motivation":59,"time_to_build":46,"stack":66,"openness":77,"stage":78,"team_size":79},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Maker has no time to read Hacker News but listens to audio on the train","maker",[52],{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},"5096654","I find I don't have enough time to read all the stuff on Hacker News, but I spend heaps of time on the train where I’m usually listening to music. 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My startup has licensed some premium text-to-speech engines for a pretty penny so…","unknown","launched","company",{"praise":81,"objections":116,"requests":139,"questions":184,"alternatives":196},[82,90,101],{"value":83,"source":84,"evidence":85},"Changing voice between items helps separate articles","commenter",[86],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"5096684","petercooper","I'm finding it hard to follow the TTS (but it's growing on me) but the core idea is superb and I'm catching interesting snippets. Changing the TTS voice between items is a genius…",{"value":91,"source":84,"evidence":92},"Good for commutes and mobile use",[93,97],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"5101452","goostavos","This is absolutely fantastic! I occasionally have to make 2+ hour commutes to\u002Ffrom jobs, and I've long been wanting a way to digest the latest tech news while driving down the…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"5098521","fudged71","Brilliant work. Great to see that you designed it to work on phones. I look forward to the TLDR feature ;)",{"value":102,"source":84,"evidence":103},"TTS sounds surprisingly good",[104,108,112],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"5096704","jval","Wow, amazing work. I too was skeptical about TTS but it really grows on you. Are you guys using some kind of proprietary solution? Sounds really clear.",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"5096795","micheljansen","It's been a while since I actively followed TTS, but the speech of this one sounds surprisingly good. The service itself is useful as well. It could be a bit more interactive for…",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"5097373","pw7","Great Work! Aside from a few glitches this is fantastic! TTS is surprisingly fine.",[117,125,132],{"value":118,"source":84,"evidence":119},"TTS still sounds robotic and hard to follow",[120,121],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"5098755","charlesju","I actually find that Audio is my favorite way to consume content because I usually want to use my sight and hands to be doing something more proactive and creative (ie.…",{"value":126,"source":84,"evidence":127},"Parsing includes unreadable tables and links",[128],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"5096741","DiabloD3","I'd be awesome if this was on github so people could improve the parsing. For one, it reads stuff that is obviously not meant to be read \"live\", but are just informational…",{"value":133,"source":84,"evidence":134},"Article link goes to the service not the original source",[135],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"5099200","iambot","On my Macbook OSX Mountain Lion, it works great and started playing on load (Which didn't happen when i loaded in on iOS but thats to be expected) One thing that REALLY bugged me…",[140,155,166,177],{"value":141,"source":84,"evidence":142},"Variable playback speed",[143,147,151],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"5096869","jobigoud","Would be great to be able to variate the audio speed.",{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"5098985","eumenides1","Awesome work. Can we get an option to speed up the voice? I think I can process info a little faster than base speed. I believe I saw something where blind people who use screen…",{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"5097531","tersiag","Hi, this is a great idea, perfect for when I'm in transit. It would be nice if you could add a feature to control the speed of the voice. The output is way too slow for my liking",{"value":156,"source":84,"evidence":157},"Offline listening and preloading over WiFi",[158,162],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"5096670","ekurutepe","Is the audio streamed over cellular? It would be cool to preload clips over WiFi before hitting the road.",{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"5097415","yitchelle","Great concept. One suggestion off the top of my head is to allow for offline listening. Ie, configure soundgecko to get a snapshort of HN front page at say 5pm, TTS the front…",{"value":167,"source":84,"evidence":168},"Read HN comments as well as articles",[169,173],{"id":170,"by":171,"text":172},"5096918","ntsh","Very cool. Now our eyes can get some rest by letting this app read the top posts. Can we also get to hear the top 2 or 3 comments from the corresponding discussion page ?",{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"5099964","angersock","Now, if only we could somehow provide the comment threads, and allow us the ability to assign voices to different handles. I imagine something like a booming Voice of God for pg,…",{"value":178,"source":84,"evidence":179},"Audio cue between articles",[180],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"5096945","dreen","A really cool idea, I'm going to used this extensively I think. One thing though: you need to put in audio clues as to when one article ends and another begins. I'm not looking…",[185,192],{"value":186,"source":84,"evidence":187},"Is it a YC startup?",[188],{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"5096839","locksley","Is this a YC startup?",{"value":193,"source":84,"evidence":194},"Is the audio streamed over cellular?",[195],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},[197,208,212,219,229],{"value":198,"source":84,"evidence":199},"Umano",[200,204],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"5097850","bryans","That's pretty much what Umano is doing. I'm not sure how they decide which articles get read though. http:\u002F\u002Fumanoapp.com\u002F",{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"5099314","miles","Let the folks at Umano know - they've already got humans reading a bunch of tech news: http:\u002F\u002Fumanoapp.com\u002F",{"value":209,"source":84,"evidence":210},"tldr.io",[211],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},{"value":213,"source":84,"evidence":214},"Pocket with text-to-speech",[215],{"id":216,"by":217,"text":218},"5096728","alaskamiller","Pretty cool in itself. Good demo of SoundGecko too. I've been doing something similar on my iPhone for awhile: 1. Send articles to Pocket 2. Highlight article 3. Two-finger tap…",{"value":220,"source":84,"evidence":221},"Podcastomatic",[222,226],{"id":223,"by":224,"text":225},"5100259","hnoob","Does tldr.io provide an RSS feed? If so, just plug it into podcastomatic.com (RSS-to-TTS-podcast) and presto; you have a tldr-podcast.",{"id":227,"by":224,"text":228},"5099951","Really nice and useful work, longzheng! If you like these kind of services and want to be able to convert any RSS feed (not just HN) into a TTS-spoken podcast, check out the…",{"value":230,"source":50,"evidence":231},"Hacker News Radio",[232],{"id":233,"by":11,"text":234},"5096716","Yeah. Came across Hacker News Radio before but the domain has since expired. 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