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Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

Shown by pramodbiligiri on Aug 6, 2021. Click the card to turn it over.

161points

36comments

#300of 2,533 in 2021

Top 12%of 2021 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 3 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.

Execution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against

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TTS reads LaTeX markup aloud
From 2 comments
- This is really neat. One piece of feedback is it begins and ends TeX expressions by saying “dollar” which is distracting. Probably best to strip the TeX syntax while retaining…
  mpercy on HN
- nice abstraction for listening to abstracts! would really like a "curated playlist" option. The ability to filter based on "Topics" is a step in that direction and a further…
  soothseer on HN
Hard to judge paper relevance from title alone
From 1 comment
- This is great. Thank you for sharing it! A couple of feedback points (which you may already be aware of): 1. I did occasionally find that not enough info was shown for papers to…
  nmstoker on HN
Multiple papers play at once; known bugs
From 2 comments
- If I click on play on multiple papers, all play simultaneously. Is this something expected or a bug?
  SinghCoder on HN
- That is a known bug. Actually I haven’t even come around to fixing such issues yet. Another thing you should probably (not!) try: Click Play on a paper and click on Next/Prev :)…
  pramodbiligiri on HN

Curated playlists or topic filtering
From 1 comment
- nice abstraction for listening to abstracts! would really like a "curated playlist" option. The ability to filter based on "Topics" is a step in that direction and a further…
  soothseer on HN
Permalinks to papers
From 1 comment
- nice abstraction for listening to abstracts! would really like a "curated playlist" option. The ability to filter based on "Topics" is a step in that direction and a further…
  soothseer on HN
Daily RSS feed
From 1 comment
- Great work! Some other feature recommendations: 1. A daily RSS feed - perhaps it could compile them into a 'single' podcast. 2. Human voice uploads - allow readers to upload…
  bArray on HN
Biology and chemistry topics
From 1 comment
- How come there are no Biology or Chemistry topics to choose?
  LoveMortuus on HN

How papers are sourced and licensed
From 1 comment
- Great idea! How do you choose papers? Is it all free?? Would be good if you could further narrow down from the topic to subtopics. A small glitch, when I deselect 'Select All' it…
  heldsteel7 on HN
TTS provider and costs
From 1 comment
- @pramodbiligiri, would you be willing to share a little bit more about how the thext-to-speech is utlized in your project? What provider do you use, the costs related to it, is…
  user_agent on HN

Narrationbox
From 1 comment
- There are a lot of AI narrator services you can use to create and record custom podcast. There is one called narrationbox which I specially use to create Audio Books from ebooks.…
  Valdy on HN
Arxiv Sanity Preserver
From 1 comment
- You didn't mention what field(s) but Arxiv Sanity Preserver has top papers users have added to their libraries. http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/top
  beakerbreaker on HN
Fermat's Library
From 1 comment
- Do you mean like Fermats Library? People can share annotated papers there. There aren't a lot of papers though, but i found some good ones outside of comp-sci recently. 1)…
  sidmitra on HN