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Same, it was using the high quality openai voice until my account ran out of funds.. Now it's using edge-tts which is free. So far it seems like the best option in terms of price/performance, but I'm happy to switch it up if something better comes along.

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The gemini example was a wonderful summary of the comments, but audio is not very practical for something that long.

What about putting the text version that's used to make the audio somewhere on the page? (or better, on a subpage where there's no audio playback)

I'll look into it for the next iteration! I could just take the transcript that's already on the page and put it somewhere separate from the audio.

But thinking about it a little more, what would the use case for a text version actually look like? I feel like if you're already on HN, navigating somewhere else to get a TLDR would be too much friction. Or are we talking RSS/blog type delivery?

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