alt Hacker NewsI did something very similar to this, for myself, but which takes a web page for an article, cleans up the text to preserve the article only, and converts it using TTS, then adds it to a cloud bucket with an RSS stream, and I use that RSS link as a podcast in Apple Podcast.
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Same here.
https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2024/Apr/reading-articles-via-p...
I use the TTS on Google Cloud. It's effectively free.
Oh man. I did something similar but didn’t do the last mile with the cloud bucket and RSS stream and that seems key. I never have the energy to manually copy the mp3s over to the phone.
What TTS do you use? I find the OpenAI ones really unpleasant to listen to and elevenlabs is better but still not quite right somehow.
Same here. 75% of my podcast listening time come from content generated by claude and voxtral these days (tts from mistral).
Would you mind sharing, if you're open sourcing it?
Sounds great! Any interest in open sourcing your approach?
RSS -> Apple podcast. Love it!
I do similar things, just use ElevenLabs for tts - a good selection of voices.
A good protip - tell an agent to rewrite the article slightly for better listening flow. Some subtle changes in sentence structure etc can make listening way more pleasant.