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josh-sematic
819 days ago
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.
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Nowado
819 days ago
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.
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adi4213
819 days ago
We built Oration (
https://oration.app
) to improve on issues like this. It also generates a summarized version
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adi4213
819 days ago
Give oration (
https://oration.app
) a try! It’s cheaper and many of our users found it a better option than Listening
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ipsum2
819 days ago
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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