Listen: Today’s stories in a short 5-minute summary

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20 points·cristinaibunea··4 comments

Hey! Thanks for checking this out. If you do try the Listle mobile app, we’d love to hear your feedback.

Although the above link is a short summary of the most time-sensitive audio articles that have been posted on Listle today, we’re aiming to go beyond that and have articles on a ton of different topics. For instance, you can find almost all of PG’s essays, fundraising advice from the YC partners, book summaries, content on UBI or the entire timeline of the impeachment, to name a few.

So if you find yourself commuting or doing any mundane stuff and decide to listen to some articles, please let us know what you think! :)

Is this TTS? I tried getting into Curio.io for a while, but the audio format article genre is very hard to make into a unique product category. Especially when the big news organisations such as WSJ, Economist and The Guardian have their own audio versions of articles.

Hey! We're not using text-to-speech, all of the narrations we have so far (around 4000 audio articles) are recorded by people. We're currently doing a mix of both news and content that's more on the evergreen side (science, books, startups, self-dev). The aim here is to basically create a huge library of audio content on a wide range of topics and be able to make recommendations to users, based on what they're usually interested in. Thanks a lot for the feedback, it's very highly appreciated!

If I recall, there was an HN thread a while back where it was discussed that humans are hired to read the stories that are the most popular.. or something like that.. added it to my bookmarks, and considered doing some reads for it, but have not been back there yet.

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