alt Hacker NewsI did something very similar to this, for myself, but which takes a web page for an article, cleans up the text to preserve the article only, and converts it using TTS, then adds it to a cloud bucket with an RSS stream, and I use that RSS link as a podcast in Apple Podcast.
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Same here.
https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2024/Apr/reading-articles-via-p...
I use the TTS on Google Cloud. It's effectively free.
What TTS do you use? I find the OpenAI ones really unpleasant to listen to and elevenlabs is better but still not quite right somehow.
Oh man. I did something similar but didn’t do the last mile with the cloud bucket and RSS stream and that seems key. I never have the energy to manually copy the mp3s over to the phone.
Same here. 75% of my podcast listening time come from content generated by claude and voxtral these days (tts from mistral).
RSS -> Apple podcast. Love it!
Sounds great! Any interest in open sourcing your approach?
I do similar things, just use ElevenLabs for tts - a good selection of voices.
A good protip - tell an agent to rewrite the article slightly for better listening flow. Some subtle changes in sentence structure etc can make listening way more pleasant.