I was on a road trip with my friend recently and we wanted to listen to a Wikipedia article in the car. We weren't able to do that, which inspired me to create a new free app, WikiFM.
WikiFM lets you turn any article on Wikipedia into an endless radio station. It automatically jumps topics to keep things interesting and it also provides you complete control over things like skip rate and playback speed and the voice itself.
All of the text-to-speech generation happens on device, so it is very environmentally friendly and fast.
I think that in the next year or two text-to-speech capabilities will improve a lot on-device and this tool may become more useful, but I think that even now with the robot-y voice it has a sort of charm to it.
WikiFM lets you turn any article on Wikipedia into an endless radio station. It automatically jumps topics to keep things interesting and it also provides you complete control over things like skip rate and playback speed and the voice itself.
All of the text-to-speech generation happens on device, so it is very environmentally friendly and fast.
I think that in the next year or two text-to-speech capabilities will improve a lot on-device and this tool may become more useful, but I think that even now with the robot-y voice it has a sort of charm to it.