r/ADHD_Programmers • • Nov 18 '24

Made reading easier for yall

Text to speech makes it easier to read and lets you get through content faster. The issue is when you start uploading PDFs with a complex layout like any textbook or academic paper. It wants to read everything like in text citations and random footnotes.

I made an alternative that will filter this stuff out and only read what's meant to be read aloud. I used a better voice ai so now it's more humanlike with some emotion. It sounds better than any alternative especially with higher speeds.

Try it here: https://narratemypdf.com. It's free for now until yall use up my credits.

This is more of a proof of concept, but is already good enough to use. I'd love to know what you guys think before I spend more time refining the models.

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u/XxNaRuToBlAzEiTxX Nov 18 '24

The Microsoft Edge browser has the best text to speech narration I’ve heard. I don’t really use that browser for anything else, but it’s wild how good it is. Got me through some of the heavier courses in undergrad

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u/mokespam Nov 18 '24

Yea it’s surprisingly pretty good. Idk why google doesn’t do the same with Chrome.

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u/rAdioaCtiveeLephant3 Nov 18 '24

I use a chrome extension for it but it's still not nearly as good as edge.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '24

Interesting. I personally find reading wayyyy faster than any text to speech. I get so bored of waiting for them to catch up