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josh-sematic
on March 15, 2024
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ArXiv Papers as Audiobooks
https://www.listening.com/
does this as a service.FWIW I haven’t tried it myself.
Edit: looks like they support a few traditional publishers as well.
Nowado
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Last time I tried it, app literally just read papers. As in parsed arxiv pdfs text2speech. It was an awful misunderstanding of the medium. Unless it was rebuilt significantly over last months, it's just bad.
adi4213
on March 15, 2024
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We built Oration (
https://oration.app
) to improve on issues like this. It also generates a summarized version
adi4213
on March 15, 2024
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Give oration (
https://oration.app
) a try! It’s cheaper and many of our users found it a better option than Listening
ipsum2
on March 15, 2024
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Whatever they're using for text to speech is rough. Probably using an open source model. The one used in OP (Google's) is a lot more listenable.
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Edit: looks like they support a few traditional publishers as well.