I did something very similar to this, for myself, but which takes a web page for an article, cleans up the text to preserve the article only, and converts it using TTS, then adds it to a cloud bucket with an RSS stream, and I use that RSS link as a podcast in Apple Podcast.

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kolinko 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do similar things, just use ElevenLabs for tts - a good selection of voices.

A good protip - tell an agent to rewrite the article slightly for better listening flow. Some subtle changes in sentence structure etc can make listening way more pleasant.

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BeetleB an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same here.

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2024/Apr/reading-articles-via-p...

I use the TTS on Google Cloud. It's effectively free.

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sebzim4500 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What TTS do you use? I find the OpenAI ones really unpleasant to listen to and elevenlabs is better but still not quite right somehow.

	▲	kingforaday 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Try fish.audio - their S2 Pro has been very decent. The S2.1 Pro might be better but haven't had a chance to try it.

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robot_jesus 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh man. I did something similar but didn’t do the last mile with the cloud bucket and RSS stream and that seems key. I never have the energy to manually copy the mp3s over to the phone.

	▲	cj00 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I did something similar and just put the files on an old laptop and used Tailscale. That gives me an https URL and Apple Podcasts downloads the files fine.
	▲	exe34 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I have syncthing, I just copy a file into the shared folder.
	▲	janpmz 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I did both of that too! At the end I made my own app to listen to the episodes.

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brumar 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same here. 75% of my podcast listening time come from content generated by claude and voxtral these days (tts from mistral).

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_ink_ 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sounds great! Any interest in open sourcing your approach?

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sgallant 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

RSS -> Apple podcast. Love it!