Ask HN: Is there a web service that can read text or web pages?

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I would love to be able to give a web page, text, and/or HTML to a web service and get back an audio file of that page being read. Basically, automating the OS X service where you can right-click text and, via Services, “Add to iTunes as a spoken track.”

But I am not aware of any such service.

Does one exist?

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I didn't look into this in detail, but doing a quick google search reveals a lot of plugins that allow text to speech. There seemed to be a lot of relevant results, one of htem that might be an integration within OSX and not just a browser plugin.

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...

Will this handle what you're considering? https://github.com/kripken/speak.js Couldn't tell if you wanted something for your pages or something to submit pages to and receive audio...

The latter, ideally — something with an API :)

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