Recast

Turn your read-later list into bite-size audio convos w/AI ✨

4.8•29 reviews•

1.3K followers

Turn your read-later list into bite-size audio convos w/AI ✨

4.8•29 reviews•

1.3K followers

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Text-to-Speech Software

Recast’s AI app helps you “read” without reading. Listen to any article as a short podcast. Co-hosts explain in real dialogue. Submit any article to convert. Or browse community recasts. Learn doing chores or on the go. Save reading and screen time.

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Launch tags:Productivity•News•Artificial Intelligence

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Fable Wizard

Oh damn, this is amazing and super relatable. Do you get to choose the voices that the content is being narrated to you?

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2yr ago

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Maker

@jonurbonas that's great feedback Jonas, we don't yet support custom voices but definitely something that we're considering :)

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2yr ago

Hi, I like the idea, but are you integrated with Pocket or Safari's reading list? Or do I need to save my read-later articles on your platform as well?

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2yr ago

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Maker

@orico this is great feedback Ori! we currently don't support these integrations, you'll need to save your readings on Recast via the Chrome extension or directly on the iOS app via the URL submitter page. However, we do take into account your idea cc @ekurutepe @verena_ortlieb @a18n

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2yr ago

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Maker

@orico great feedback! We have integration with read later services on our list. Coming soon!

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2yr ago

Been using since early beta. The idea is genius & I'm very impressed with the voices - they're very real and pleasant to listen to actually. The killer feature for me is recasting my own articles. Though there is a growing library and recommendations that actually work quite well, I love recasting long-form articles that I find on social media or that my friends send me. Keep going strong & good luck with the launch!

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2yr ago

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Maker

@tim_sfiligoj Re the voices, that's a special point of pride for us. Getting 80% of the way there comes out of the box, but the devils in the details. We have so many systems that we invested a lot of effort in early on to chase down edge cases and classes of edge cases where this new crop of AI-transformer based voicing, which is usually great, fails. And those rare WTF moments just kills the whole audio experience. One place you'll notice we tend to be way better than others is on acronyms, which come up more than you'd think. There's a lot of complexity there. But for users, we want you to never have to think about it. It should "just work"

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2yr ago

@a18n You certianly outdid yourselves when it comes to the voices!

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2yr ago

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Maker

Dear Hunters, Co-founder/CTO of Recast here. We're super excited to show you what we have been building! We build recast to help us get through all the interesting stuff to read on the Internet and discover things you would not have gotten around to reading otherwise. I used to be an avid podcast listener when driving, now recast replaced podcasts for me. Recast is different than a podcast, it does not, yet, have the theatrical part but it's also much quicker and gives me short and to the point conversations which are fun to listen while doing something else and gives me much more variety than a podcast would. I'd love to hear what you think about recast. Keep the feedback coming!

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2yr ago

Awesome how sophisticated speech synthesis became recently. The intonation is very human-like...

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2yr ago

Qatalog

Amazing idea! Looking forward to being able to finally close all my browser tabs that I was supposed to read months ago 🚀 🚀 Definitely trying this out today!!!

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2yr ago

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Maker

@marco_scoppetta excited to hear your feedback bro! #killingbrowsertabs 🚀 🚀

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2yr ago

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Maker

@marco_scoppetta HECK YES. IT'S THE BEST FEELING. S8UMBIT, CLOSE, SUBMIT, CLOSE, SUMBIT CLOSE

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2yr ago

Narrator

Congratulations! It's really exciting as I have been thinking of something similar. I was wondering what kind of voice generating source you have used? I tried Bark TTS before, but it was not natural enough.

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2yr ago

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Maker

@hmpark_eddie thanks for your support Eddie, @ekurutepe can elaborate on this one 🤓

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2yr ago

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Maker

@hmpark_eddie We have experimented with various open source models as well but getting them to a high enough quality is a lot of work. So we decided to go with a paid TTS vendor to have a good enough baseline. We still add a lot of our own sauce to fine-tune the pronunciations delivered by their model.

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2yr ago

Liking the app so far but have you guys considered possibly allowing the podcast support on the free plan by dynamically inserting audio ads? $10/month is a bit out of reach for some people and I'm sure some people wouldn't mind ads instead.

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2yr ago

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Maker

@brandongiesing thanks for the feedback Brandon. Ads will definitely play a role in the near future. We'll have to see how that changes the pricing structure. Those GPUs for AI are not cheap.

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2yr ago

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4.8

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Reviews praise Recast for turning long reads into engaging, dialogue-style audio that’s ideal for commutes, workouts, and screen-free mornings. Users highlight natural-sounding voices, useful recommendations, and an easy share-sheet workflow. Common asks: more customization, clearer feature explanations, broader language support, and options to tweak tone/voice “temperature.” Some report regional availability issues and concerns about whether content handling respects copyright. Despite an isolated “retired” report, most say it’s reliable and time-saving, replacing overflowing read-later tabs with a curated, fast queue they actually finish.

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