(highlight:: I use RSS-Bridge
(mostly CSS Selector
and XPathBridge
) to create RSS feeds for blogs and websites that don’t provide a feed (If you’re writing on the web and don’t provide an RSS feed to your readers, please consider adding one). I used to use Inoreader’s feed generator, but the Pro plan has a maximum of 20 feed generations and I quickly reached the limit. Honestly, very strange limit on Inoreader’s service.)
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The ratio of the “useful information” per “time spent” is extremely low with podcasts for me, so I’ve decided to spend my listening time on audiobooks and articles (using Text-to-Speech, more on this later)
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(highlight:: I of course started with Pocket’s own TTS feature, but it’s honestly just trash. I couldn’t bear listening to Android’s cacophonous default TTS engine voices for more than 30 seconds. I then came across this tts-server-android
thing that I think somehow replaces your Android phone’s TTS engine with more realistic voices (I honestly don’t how it works, and yeah, I was brave enough to install the APK file on my phone).)
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(highlight:: Readwise Reader was using Microsoft TTS service, but they have switched to Unreal Speech
recently)
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Readwise Reader has a nice (one-way) Pocket integration, and it gets the newly saved items from Pocket every time you open the app, no extra action is required.
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(highlight:: I was introduced to Omnivore
with this YouTube video
. I started trying out Omnivore’s TTS, and wow! The voices were impressively high-quality and the experience was the closest to a human narrator (at 1.5x speed). Omnivore is an open-source app
, and upon browsing in their codebase and issues I found out they’re using PlayHT
as their TTS engine.)
- No location available
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(highlight:: I use RSS-Bridge
(mostly CSS Selector
and XPathBridge
) to create RSS feeds for blogs and websites that don’t provide a feed (If you’re writing on the web and don’t provide an RSS feed to your readers, please consider adding one). I used to use Inoreader’s feed generator, but the Pro plan has a maximum of 20 feed generations and I quickly reached the limit. Honestly, very strange limit on Inoreader’s service.)
- No location available
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The ratio of the “useful information” per “time spent” is extremely low with podcasts for me, so I’ve decided to spend my listening time on audiobooks and articles (using Text-to-Speech, more on this later)
- No location available
-

(highlight:: I of course started with Pocket’s own TTS feature, but it’s honestly just trash. I couldn’t bear listening to Android’s cacophonous default TTS engine voices for more than 30 seconds. I then came across this tts-server-android
thing that I think somehow replaces your Android phone’s TTS engine with more realistic voices (I honestly don’t how it works, and yeah, I was brave enough to install the APK file on my phone).)
- No location available
-

(highlight:: Readwise Reader was using Microsoft TTS service, but they have switched to Unreal Speech
recently)
- No location available
-

Readwise Reader has a nice (one-way) Pocket integration, and it gets the newly saved items from Pocket every time you open the app, no extra action is required.
- No location available
-

(highlight:: I was introduced to Omnivore
with this YouTube video
. I started trying out Omnivore’s TTS, and wow! The voices were impressively high-quality and the experience was the closest to a human narrator (at 1.5x speed). Omnivore is an open-source app
, and upon browsing in their codebase and issues I found out they’re using PlayHT
as their TTS engine.)
- No location available
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