Show HN: Chat App with AWS Polly Text-To-Speech

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I saw another article on HN [1] where AWS embedded the Polly-text-to-speech technology to read an article. I hope a lot of progress gets made into this where we can have non-computer sounding voices as it still sounds almost awkwardly digital, as well as control the speed of playback, etc.

It'd be a great source of having content read to me while I commute without having the production of a podcast or audible book. There are several times I'd love to have NY Times articles read to me while I wander around the house.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/serverless-and-startups/

The voice isn't quite human yet but we've come a long way since Microsoft Sam. Wordpress has an Amazon Polly plugin so bloggers can add a read aloud feature to their blog posts. So far, I've heard it trying to read the page's HTML in addition to article content.

With this browser extension you can add articles and listen them later on your phone https://intelligent-speaker.com

We use AWS Polly too.

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