per.quest
Productivity
text to speech
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
13 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 52 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Execution: 3 for, 6 againstIdea: 6 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Natural-sounding voice and useful for reading articles while working
From 3 comments
Once in a while I use the speech feature of Chrome on my MacOS to have it read articles to me while I work. It's clunky though, it only works (AFAIK) on highlighted text which…
flanbiscuit on HNThis is one of the best ideas I have seen this year. This is beautiful.
debarshri on HNWorked quite well with an article. Good job!
ekulianova on HN
Bookmarklet and command-line usage
From 2 comments
If you want a bookmark: ```…
soheil on HNcommand-line version: ``` curl -L https://per.quest/$URL | mpv - # or aplay etc. ```
lambdaba on HN
Objections
Blocklist-based localhost checks leave SSRF holes
From 3 comments
https://2130706433:443/ https://0177.0.0.01:443/
bryanh on HNhttp://[::1] still works btw
karmanyaahm on HNYou will not win against SSRF using a blocklist of names. You need a comprehensive solution that is designed for this and will check the end address after redirections, DNS…
remram on HN
Fails on some pages, such as Hacker News newest and Gemini pages, returning empty audio
From 3 comments
"No video with supported format and MIME type found." Apparently it's serving zero-byte mp3s?
foxfluff on HNYeah I got this error when requesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
legrande on HNThis is the first URL I tried: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi
foxfluff on HN
Requires JavaScript; the index form does not work without it
From 1 comment
I feel like this is a great idea, honestly. But in my opinion I think that you should make the website fully work without the use of client-side JavaScript. Not that I dislike…
fairytale on HN
Requests
Speed controls and voice choice
From 2 comments
Neat! Could you add speed controls, a download audio option, download audio as mp3/webm/etc, and options for different voices? Why is there no donation option for this project?…
donclark on HNOnce in a while I use the speech feature of Chrome on my MacOS to have it read articles to me while I work. It's clunky though, it only works (AFAIK) on highlighted text which…
flanbiscuit on HN
Support for other languages
From 1 comment
This is timing. I was just looking for a solution for a friend who has very bad eyesight due to accident. They want to be able to listen to news articles and such. It would be…
sntran on HN
Download audio option
From 1 comment
Neat! Could you add speed controls, a download audio option, download audio as mp3/webm/etc, and options for different voices? Why is there no donation option for this project?…
donclark on HN
Questions
How is it built?
From 1 comment
how is this made?
diplodocusaur on HN
Does the page text get skipped for pre code blocks?
From 1 comment
Very nice! I tried it out on one of my articles[0] and it worked very well. The only issue I had was that the code samples were spoken. Perhaps ignore <pre> sections? [0]…
smbv on HN
Alternatives named
Speechify Chrome extension
From 1 comment
I became aware of a chrome extension that does this. Is there anything that the extension does that this can’t do?…
egfx on HN
Pocket text to speech
From 1 comment
Not trying to steal from the dev here, but this same ability is built into Pocket that is run by Mozilla, and Mozilla will happily take your money.
turbocon on HN
Browser built-in speech features
From 1 comment
Once in a while I use the speech feature of Chrome on my MacOS to have it read articles to me while I work. It's clunky though, it only works (AFAIK) on highlighted text which…
flanbiscuit on HN