Play
Making AI speak better than humans.
Start new thread
Arnie McKinnis

Play (for Medium) - Listen to Medium Stories with a Chrome Extension

by•

Play.ht (for Medium) is a Free Chrome Extension to Listen to any article on Medium as an Audio Narration.

Add a comment

Replies

Best
Josh Pagley
This is awesome! Medium is one of my favorite sources of content. Audio is my favorite way to consume content. I get the best of both worlds now!
Stefano Zorzi
I like it. I aways have the need for something like this. Machine text to speech is not that great though. Not yet at least. Have you consider having real people reading the most popular posts?
Mahmoud Felfel
Maker
@stefanozorzi Thanks Stefano, have you tried it? Actually, we tried many services to find the one with the best quality and not so "robotic" voices, something that we would love to use ourselves. But even if TTS is getting better, the human speech quality is still much better, we will try to mix both soon, so if a human-narrated audio available get it, otherwise TTS. The most important thing to us is to give a good user experience by providing an "instant" narration of any article.
Eddie Pratt
Speech synthesis has come on leaps and bounds! Pity it doesn't have any info on the creators. Would be interesting to learn more.
Arnie McKinnis
Hunter
@prattarazzi Trying to get them added ... they need the credit.
Hammad
Maker
@prattarazzi We are here. What would you like to know?
Robert Nachum
Great product
Karn Malhotra
hehe excited! Especially given how much i love audible! Great job guys :)
Mat Sherman
This is actually pretty awesome. Medium podcasts? I'm in.
Yvan Scher
having a little trouble. doesnt seem to play on Chrome Version 53.0.2785.116 (64-bit)
Mahmoud Felfel
Maker
@yvanscher Thanks for trying and reporting this, will check and push a fix asap
Yvan Scher
@ma7moudfelfel cool thanks
Aidan Wolf
Awesome! Any way to increase the read speed though?
Hammad
Maker
@aidan Yup, working on it!
Aidan Wolf
@hammadh4 YES! Thank you, can't wait.
shem
That's absolutely should be a must for every publisher or blogging platform. I would love to see this kind of feature on all the readers app. For example @pocket added lately an option to listen to items but it not working so good. This is a great opportunity to change audience content consuming behavior and there's no reason to stop here and support only @medium.
Patrick J.
@shemag8 @pocket @medium This mobile app is an alternative for automatic podcast generation of news sites: https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
shem
@xrb iphone only =\
Josh
@shemag8 @pocket @medium If you're looking beyond Medium right now, check out @NarroApp https://narro.co and https://narro.co/apps
Enrique Benitez
I use Medium every day, and this extension is amazing, very useful, it's a must have from now on! As a suggestion, when you open a Medium story, the Play tooltip explaining about the play button is popping up every time. Making it appear only 1 time (the first time after installation) == better ux. Second thing, more voices would be great as well as listening at 2x 3x speed and so on. Thanks for this! ^^
Mahmoud Felfel
Maker
@bntzio Thanks Enrique for your amazing suggestions. Speed and voices features are coming soon. Regarding the tooltip, just the point of it was to get the user's attention as it is a new feature for him, at the beginning without it, we noticed some users didn't know where is the button from the first time. But you're right we should make it appears fewer times.
First
Previous
123
•••
Next
Last