I want it to keep watching my feed and read every new post it sees as a desktop companion. How do we do that?
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Voca is scoped to be android only, at least at first.
It could potentially take an rss feed or npub and wait for new events to be added to the queue.
Amethyst is Android only as well. So, I could just send every post to you as soon as we get one.
Voca uses sherpaTTS under the hood, maybe you can just use that directly? I remember a play button in older amethyst versions that did TTS.
This is very interesting.
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No problem!
nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug please any ideas already for integration?
No idea. But I am open to interesting ways to integrate. We use TTS to say people's names on their profile. But that's it right now.
I'd like to have this workflow:
- I find an interesting article (that I don't want to read on mobile phone)
- copy - > share to some nostr note
- voca listens, converts it to audio, dumps it to a podcast RSS feed
- I go and listen to it in Fountain at my own pace sometimes later
*something like this would make sense in the Highlighter as well.
YES
That's the third major feature on our roadmap: on any text/pdf/website, click share, convert to mp3, in the background voca runs the TTS engine, generates a mp3 and places it in a folder where your podcast app catches it and adds it to the queue.
We are still many dev hours away from that, so please zap if you want to see this happen sooner!
nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9 does this with his blog and it's a neat idea.
loaditfor.me is awesome!
And since the TTS engine is on a powerful server, the audio quality is better than what Sherpa can do on the phone.
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This must have been one of those tabs I opened to "read more carefully later" and it slipped away!
Just tested it out with njump link of a note, it works like butter. Just requires a lot of manual "spreading" - clicking. But what a way to nail a simple MVP, nostr:nprofile1qqsd4dkxqewy8xum47ctpu0ltgxxsfemeewpjkdyzk9ddfcg286s0dsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvduhq6r9wfc82mnt9e6x7erp0yhs4deh46!
It would be a killer feature if I can do it w/ a single click directly from the client or a browser. Definitely willing to pay with zaps or any other seamless method.
* I didn't find the podcast feed in Fountain search, but AntennaPod got it quickly.
** I just saw Ryan Hoover resurfacing same product need on the bird app, and some inreresting discussion about relqted features https://xcancel.com/rrhoover/status/1904841208960373041
One click would be nice, although not sure how to implement it.
In fountain it should be searchable, but you can always add private rss feed.
I'll be open sourcing the code for both rss2podcast and loaditfor.me soon. I was experimenting and rewriting it with my intern a lot (ok, it was mostly vibe coded), but now it has become more stable.
Btw I'm "consulting" a bit on nostr:nprofile1qqs0tj5e4fj8ljvy0tdkrdhdyqxek9vsjwjmjunvfe8zhxdlnlfj8rcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mz7fudpxl .
Big fan of the project 😁
Yeah this link is from the Fountain search. https://fountain.fm/show/3MjdPUN26O8yQAtaXBmL
Anything added to podcastindex will show up in any app that uses it for search.