Listen to Wikipedia

I was hoping this would be a way to listen to Wikipedia articles like audiobooks. Unfortunately, the iPhone screen reader is not optimized for reading Wikipedia:<p>- It reads footnote links (&quot;one&quot;, &quot;fourteen&quot;, etc)<p>- It reads years like numbers (&quot;One thousand, seven hundred and fifty six&quot; instead of &quot;seventeen fifty six&quot;).<p>- It reads introductory metadata, warnings, etc.<p>- It reads tables.<p>- It read image captions.<p>Ideally it wouldn&#x27;t do any of these things. Basically, it reads the screen from top to bottom, which isn&#x27;t what a human would do if you asked somebody to read a Wikipedia article to you. If anyone knows a good way to synthesize Wikipedia to speech, that would be so nice!<p>EDIT: I wonder if Apple would reject such an app from the App Store because it would compete with ebooks.

Great way to moderate vandalism. Half of the edits I clicked were defacement of articles

Neat, although with Wikipedia dealing largely with sentence-based text, I was hoping for something that does text-to-speech. It would be cool if for each edit a voice would read the article title and the updated sentence(s).

Similar projects have been inspired by this. Someone made a version of this, but for GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.audio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.audio</a><p>And another, but for Twitter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iora.live" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iora.live</a> (disclaimer: I&#x27;m the author)

Pro tip: You can link directly to multiple active sources. The following link marks all sources as active automatically. It is surprisingly harmonious: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;listen.hatnote.com&#x2F;#uk,en,fr,sv,he,as,pa,ml,or,pl,sr,fi,eo,wikidata,pt,no,bg,de,ja,ar,nl,id,hi,te,mr,sa,mk,et,el,hu,be,gu,kn,ta,bn,zh,fa,it,es,ru" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;listen.hatnote.com&#x2F;#uk,en,fr,sv,he,as,pa,ml,or,pl,sr,...</a><p>You would have to click all 40 checkboxes manually otherwise...

Great project. I made a fork of this recently that starts in full-screen mode: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skhg.github.io&#x2F;listen-to-wikipedia&#x2F;?fullscreen" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skhg.github.io&#x2F;listen-to-wikipedia&#x2F;?fullscreen</a> for ambient sound on our TV<p>Repo at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skhg&#x2F;listen-to-wikipedia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;skhg&#x2F;listen-to-wikipedia</a>

What scale is it using? It sounds very harmonious

In Wikipedia, most large deletions are due to vandalism.<p>Fortunately there are bots that detect and revert those.

I seem to get about 50 or so entries that play, then nothing for many minutes. If I refresh, I get another burst of entries. Possibly HN is hugging the site to death?

Doesn&#x27;t work on Safari (14.0.2). No sound. Had to fire up Firefox to hear the notes.<p>Also, site is not secure (no https).

discussion from 2015: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9972781" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9972781</a>

Nothing better than a website that starts playing sound as soon as you open it!

This is beautiful.

Oh this is amazing. Very cool.

I remember there was a website or app which let you listen to wikipedia articles whose subject was near you, based on geolocation info. Anyone remember what it was?

Definitely has a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Wiki vibe to it, thanks :-)