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..

Browser extension? Try these: http://www.paper2audio.com/ https://freevoicereader.com/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sza-text-to-speech/... https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/flow-tts/hknidankih...

I found all these on this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TextToSpeech/

I've also see comments like "Microsoft Edge's read-aloud feature is amazing for TTS" but I haven't tried it myself.

Personally I use Kokoro with a python front-end on my Macbook, I linked to it in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818923 it outputs MP3, so I just copy those to my phone and listen as audiobooks.

I'm the Paper2Audio founder. I hope you enjoy using us for text to speech. Our browser extension adds your open tabs to your listening queue.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

If you use Chrome on Android, there is a "Listen to this page" option in the menu.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14768725?hl=en

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.

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.

That’s really great; an ad hoc tour guide!

For on the go, I’ve been using ElevenReader. Technically not free but their free tier has been plenty for me.

Edge has a built-in function to read websites.

I was charged $46 of import fees on a $137 of art supplies from the Czech Republic this May.

pedants unite!

Can confirm here as well. Running ilintar/qwen3.8-flash-next-gguf-strix-halo (IQ4) on pwilkin/strix-llama.

How does GLM 5.3 Flash rank against it's big brother and the latest Deepseek?

Worth saying that GLM-5.3 isn't GLM-5.3-Flash's "big brother" the way one might think. GLM-5.3-Flash is not GLM-5.3 scaled down. While GLM-5.3 is based on GLM-5.2, and "every gain comes from post-training" (https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3), GLM-5.3-Flash uses a newly trained multimodal base model (https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash).

Both these models are not bad but you can not trust them to make good decisions. I meant GLM 5.1/5.2/5.3 in the previous answer, not the flash version

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What if they add snakes?

Everything in 26 takes longer with all the bs easing that got drizzled over the interface.

Ive switched to “reduced motion” in accessibility settings and it’s gone

The problem with this is that iirc, this also signals to web pages that you do not like a lot of motion, which IS a nice UX enhancer for some pages, but might supress animations from (auto)playing where it's not what you want because the animations are the reasons you're visiting that page.

Depends on if you're referring to experience defrauding the American public, or protecting the American public. That can have different answers depending on what which side of the transaction you sit.

we could do all of them, but they all seem to be up to date on their tithe. AI has a somewhat mixed record of tribute.

Which is why High IQ President specifically responded to Amodei.

There's a hard test containing animal pictures, if you ace it you can say anything you want