There are a lot of AI narrator services you can use to create and record custom podcast. There is one called narrationbox which I specially use to create Audio Books from ebooks. You can use it to record custom podcasts as well.
This is great. Thank you for sharing it!<p>A couple of feedback points (which you may already be aware of):<p>1. I did occasionally find that not enough info was shown for papers to determine if they were really in my areas of interest, so perhaps it's worth a look to see how to show a bit more (my work around was to view the abstract but that kind of defeats to point!)<p>2. The ability to keep playing whilst you search further pages is cool. However I noticed if you search for a topic that returns lots of papers and you go on to a later page (eg you've navigated to page 4 for example) if you then search for different papers that return fewer hits you are shown a blank page, not necessary because there are no hits but because they don't populate four pages (in the example that I'm on page 4). I'd expect most people would want to return to the start of the results with each search
If you end up in the above situation, you can jump back to populated pages but it's not what you'd typically expect as a user.<p>3. The abstracts often have "\n" sequences present as actual characters in the text, which don't match up with the actual line breaks - presumably they're left over from the source but it looks like they ought to be stripped out.
This is really neat. One piece of feedback is it begins and ends TeX expressions by saying “dollar” which is distracting. Probably best to strip the TeX syntax while retaining the expressions. Simple ones like O(1) should be understandable aurally, even if complex expressions may not be.
Hi all,<p>I'm the original poster. I felt encouraged to do a Show HN for Paper Time after seeing positive feedback in a different, side projects related thread a few days back [1].<p>I'll be around for a while so go ahead and ask me any questions, either around the idea or the technical parts.<p>A big shout out to the folks on HN who responded with very pertinent resources about UI design a few months back [2], when I'd just started building this.<p>[1] - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28033440" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28033440</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932020" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932020</a>
@pramodbiligiri, would you be willing to share a little bit more about how the thext-to-speech is utlized in your project?<p>What provider do you use, the costs related to it, is it a real-time text processing, or maybe you have a bulk processing routine, opinions on different TTS providers? You know, things like that for everyone who'd like to try TTS in their projects.<p>(We're talking about >3000 abstracts TTS-ed on the author's page, and that's not a trivial amount if one is for instance using external providers for the job).
I am not a PhD but I like to read cognitive science and astro papers. I was wondering if there is an annotated version of papers available? Like a rapgenius for academic papers.<p>Anyone know if this exists?
This is a really interesting idea! Audio definitely makes it easier to listen to papers on the go.<p>One thing that's missing in the paper curation space is understanding the knowledge state of the user. Once we have that we should be able to build generative models that synthesize text that can get people to read papers much faster.
This is a great idea, thanks OP.<p>I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can anyone recommend a way to find the important and/or influential papers in a given field? Maybe something similar to The Morning Paper.<p>Edit: thanks everyone for the great suggestions!
Great idea! How do you choose papers? Is it all free??<p>Would be good if you could further narrow down from the topic to subtopics.<p>A small glitch, when I deselect 'Select All' it doesn't clear topics.