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I sat in my listening room attempting to find the flaws in the audio and I was left wanting

Having tried this kind of text to speech a few times in the past I’m impressed.

I think having specific subreddits would be a great option.

More importantly though I’d like to be able to just specify my own url list and have it generate the recap of those.

More generally this feels like the missing puzzle piece in personalized voice Q&A service

(same answer to another similar comment) Yeah the hyperpersonalised content is super interesting. For 10' of this audio, compute would cost about $1. So at $1 per daily episode, a realistic price a business would charge for this is $49 a month. Would you pay that? Maybe you could opt in for ads, that would pay that $1 for your attention. After all, the advertiser would know exactly your interests, based on your twitter feed.

An alternative is the semi-personalisation (e.g. HN, or subreddits), where the content might not be hyper personal, but still close enough, and the cost is absorbed by community.

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