[qsun]

I was trying to figure out an affordable way to send "Read Later" articles in voice to mobile device, either as podcast or other format, to keep myself relevant while driving to/from office.

I realized this tool might not be cheap, since it may take the voice actor/actress 2 hours per day to produce my content (2-hour driving commuting per day for me). To get familiar local accent, it costs ~$36 in Australia, and maybe slightly cheaper for US accent. The value it brings me can hardly justify the cost.

Now, with Polly, things changed - it produces reasonable voice, and 2-hour content would only cost ~$0.3. I decided to launch my service as soon as Instapaper approves my API request.

At the same time, put your email here: http://readlater.launchrock.co/

[bckmn]

I've built this here: https://narro.co (I haven't built into the Polly voices yet, but it uses Ivona currently, Polly's precursor.)

[bckmn]

We just released options for all the available Polly voices this morning!

[istjohn]

My Android Instapaper app does text-to-voice, and I thought their iPhone app did, too.

[r3bl]

Pocket also has that feature implemented on Android.

EDIT: It is robot-like and nowhere near the quality of the samples that Amazon provided, but it gets the job done.

[fillskills]

Pocket has this on its apps. The voice quality is very robotic though