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by jeshan25 3457 days ago
Hi HN, I wanted to read PG's essays but for such long content, I prefer audio. So I made a podcast out of his essays.

I generated the audio automatically with Amazon Polly, AWS's lifelike text-to-speech offering. It reads impressively well like a human. I thought you'd find it useful. It's available on iTunes as well (you'll find the link on the website)

It was not all straightforward though. For example, there is currently a limit of 1500 characters to be translated per request. I also have to merge all of the audio parts in order.

I'd like to invite you to check it out. If you have any advice on how to improve this, do let me know.

Jeshan.