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Mike Kerzhner

Text to voice (reader) for threads + ugc

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While on a walk yesterday, I wanted to learn about the Spain/Portugal blackout. Hacker News had a great thread on the blackout. I used ElevenReader (amazing product by @ElevenLabs) to listen to the thread. Overall, it worked great, but:

  • The reader treated new comments as just new paragraphs. So I had no idea when the reader transitioned between comments/responses. Usernames of commenters were not mentioned.

  • Urls were read out fully. This is brutal.

  • It would be awesome to skip to next comment with a voice command.

Any product recommendations for this? Or maybe @ElevenLabs is already thinking about this?

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Adam Lababidi

I don't know any products but I know that I missed many meetings due to the blackout 🤣

Matt Carroll

@adam_lab yes ditto. i wonder what the cost of all of this is in terms of lost productivity!

maybe everyone enjoyed the break and was actually just more productive going forward :)

Adam Lababidi

@catt_marroll To be honest, I have never seen people happier. People leaving paper notes to each other at meeting points, a lot of dancing and bars are full everyone is paying in cash. 11 pm electricity back, streets are empty.