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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

330 points · 152 comments · swolpers

seemaze · 1790182683 · 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. kyrra · 1790182767 · focus · HN ↗
  If you use Chrome on Android, there is a "Listen to this page" option in the menu.
  <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14768725?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14768725?hl=en
  1. e12e · 1790195351 · focus · HN ↗
    Doesn't actually read the page, though. Or not what you see in the browser. For example right now, when I navigate to "reply" it doesn't read the comment I'm replying to - it's reading the login banner you get visiting a reply link without being logged in.

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