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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

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  1. seemaze · · focus · HN ↗
    My primary use case for TTS is converting written content (blogs, articles, etc.) in to clips I can listen to on the go.

    Is there a good browser extension that does this with a flexible TTS backend? I know Qwen, Kokoro, and VibeVoice all have decent quality..

    1. unglaublich · · focus · HN ↗
      I vibed a wikipodcast app that has a wikipedia dump, gemma llm for search and summarization and a tts model for audio gen so I could just ask about topics while on the go, and the app would just go off and tell me stuff out of the Wikipedia database.

      It was especially nice during a bike trip along the Rhine, I listened to a lot of the history of the industrial area and its cities.

      1. le-mark · · focus · HN ↗
        That’s really great; an ad hoc tour guide!
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