Volume

Volume

Listen to startup and tech focused Medium stories

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iOS•Writing•Social Media
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What do you think? …

Ryan Hoover
Very cool, although I wonder if there are legal issues with this. Also check out Play (for Medium), a Chrome extension that reads Medium articles.
Tommy Norton
@rrhoover Agree there might be legal issues. You might need to carefully read Medium's terms and policy to confirm that.
Gavin
Maker
@rrhoover Play was definitely an inspiration for me to take the app in a different direction than originally planned.
Josh
@rrhoover Also may want to check out https://www.producthunt.com/post... which is still growing!
Gavin
Maker
Hey Hunts! Volume is a website and iOS app (I'm sorry Android, maybe soon) that curates startup and tech stories posted to Medium and turns them into audio. I've found them perfect to listen to on my way to work. The reason I built this is because I love reading Medium but recently I haven't had enough time in my schedule to read through them, so I made an app to read it to me. Let me know what you think!
Sophie Evans
@gavindinubilo Great job! What's the source of the voice over?
Gavin
Maker
@sofisteee I used IBMs Watson API for the text to speech, I does an alright job, though there are some other ones out there that are better.
Matthieu de Luze
Great idea here 👍 Just a suggestion ☝️, I think you should add an option to choose the type of voice you want to hear 🗣 because this one can be little un-friendly when listening to many articles.
Gavin
Maker
@matthieudeluze I'd love to do something like that, but unfortunately it would end up being incredibly expensive to do.
Josh
@matthieudeluze You would probably love that option on https://narro.co