[pondemic]

Reading the submission headline, I thought this might generate the podcast using comments.

I've found myself wanting to listen to HN comment threads, as I'm one of those people who derives more value and entertainment from the comments than I do from the actual submissions a lot of the time! I envision a voice-controlled way to navigate through threads too. Basically an accessibility narrator on steroids.

I wonder if anyone else has ever been interested in something like this. Getting good voices to read like this podcast would make it that much more fun, so thanks for getting me really hot and bothered :)

Guess if no one does it soon I'll have to build it myself!

[bredren]

I also have wanted to build this, but instead of voice controlled, perform thread navigation using the AssistiveTouch SDK for Apple Watch. [1]

I released a product yesterday that handles all aspects of the URL to speech process called Chief of Staff. [2]

The initial version only synthesizes article text alone.

I found there is a great deal of nuance to text to speech synthesis, from the player behavior itself to handling quotas around cloud services.

My goal is far greater flexibility and features—-a genuine Chief of Staff that briefs you on information you care about in a format and medium that beats suits your.

Thread reading is just one application of this.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10223/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34973801

[gremlinsinc]

want to team up on it? I'm wanting to build the same, maybe recreate it for some multireddits on tech or science and turn it into YouTube channel etc.

I'm thinking maybe having it read just the top thread if there's only 10 or so comments or just the main threads if it's a topic with hundreds of main threads.

maybe we could make some way where the reader can text a code and we'll link them directly to a comment if they want to dig deeper, or save/upvote it.

[deadly_syn]

I actually stsrted work in a similar space not too long ago if you both want another set of eyes.

This was pre GPT apis but essentially what i was doing was using a python summarization library to sumarize articles from rss feeds into a simple tts podcast. Probably a lot of money in custom GPTCasts made off someone personal rss feed as a service IMO.

[searchableguy]

I'm interested too. I have tried in the past building aggregator and summarizer on HN. You can find some attempts on my github.

Maybe an AI generated newsletter or aggregator with a voice summary?

Shoot me an email. (Email is in profile)