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Ad Auris Play — Create your own podcast with articles you want to read
Curate a personal podcast with all of your favourite articles. With a single click, turn any article into audio and add it to your Ad Auris playlist. Sync your playlist with Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Google Podcasts and listen on the go!
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Chris Messina
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@rrhoover and I continue to miss Umano 6.0 (iOS) — so will be curious to see if this fills that void!
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@rrhoover @chrismessina Ad Auris was inspired by taking Umano and scaling the generation of audio using synthetic speech!
@gunnr Thanks Greg - we really appreciate that! Shout out to commit for providing our builders :D
@florin_biro oh my god, whattt! I've been thinking about an app like this for my morning walks so I don't look like a goose trying to walk and read and still optimize time- Thanks for showing me this Biro!
@florin_biro @jennifer_velazquez it will! I use it with all of the substacks I subscribe to and the ones with tricky formatting I just copy and paste the text in and create the audio :D
The fact that this works even when there's a pay wall is mind boggling to me. Absolutely awesome. @logan_underwood1
Logan and his team have done something really awesome. I love being able to throw a link into their service and listen to an article as I go about my day. Some news sites I already visit have it built in, like the Tyee, which is awesome. I’m also a fan of how a service like this increases accessibility for blind or low vision people.
@russell_copley It's been really rewarding hearing the feedback from people with low-vision. Part of our aim is to normalize audio alternatives of written content, and help bring a new level of accessibility to the web.
Appreciate the support!
Really neat idea, and i think a lot of people want a way to consume their written content in an audio way! I personally prefer written, but might have queue this up for a long flight i have upcoming where i will need a variety of content!
@britt_joiner Absolutely - There are so many use-cases for where the convenience of being able to listen lets people catch up on their reading when they otherwise wouldn't be able to!
Guys, congrats on the kick-off! Looking very promising. What about publications under login/paywall, e.g. on Medium? Do you handle it already, or maybe it is in the nearest plans?
@mujaji Great question! For paywalled content it can get a bit tricky - but we have a copy and paste functionality that lets you input raw text and have the resulting audio sent to podcast. That way, even if something is paywalled, but you subscribe to it, you'll still be able to create audio.
My suggestion is to try the paywalled content (often it's successful), and if not, then copy and paste!
I love this! I find myself making lists of articles to read but never having the time to get to them. Being able to turn them into audio and add them to a playlist would make it so much easier to consume them!
@taleesita Absolutely! I have a bit of a ritual every weekend where i go through all my newsletters and publications i like to follow and turn the whole back-log into audio for listening throughout the week :D
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Ad Auris Co-Founder and CEO here!
Two years ago my co-founders and I launched Ad Auris with the mission to turn the web into audio. We found ourselves increasingly spending more time listening (👋 podcasts) than reading, and became frustrated that a majority of the web remained locked in written format.
We started by building a platform for publications, helping them generate audio versions of their written work. A few months ago, with over 70,000 people listening every month, we decided to take all of our learnings and create a new platform, for individuals .
From our experience with publications, we built this platform to let you do 3 things really well:
1. 🖱️Create audio with one click, it’s ridiculously easy and fast.
Copy & paste an article URL or text straight from a pdf or word document. Download the chrome extension, or add a pre-narrated story from top publications. So many ways to create audio in seconds!
2.👂Listen to the audio on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Google Podcasts, no need to download another app.
We recognize people don’t want another app to download, or another website to visit - so we made it easy to sync your playlist with your favourite podcast player. Audio is added instantly to your podcast, so you can listen on the go with ease.
3. 🗞️ Find great audio from publications like TechCrunch, New York Times and more.
We’ve pre-generated the audio for a number of top publications like TechCrunch, The Atlantic, NYTimes, and many more. As soon as you see something that catches your eye, add it to your playlist with a click.
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I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Ad Auris Play. There is so much valuable information out there, and two years on, our mission remains the same: enabling the world to access information whenever and however they'd like.
We’re iterating every week, striving to obtain these goals, and we can’t do it without your feedback. Please comment how you would improve the tool!
Find an article → turn it into audio → listen on podcast.
That’s it. It’s that simple. Try it for free!
Happy Listening,
Logan, Tina, and Varun
@rimer_carlyle_espinosa Thank you!! We're really excited, looking forward on seeing what you think!
@logan_underwood1 You're welcome. An avid fan here. I'll be on the lookout for more amazing things to happen with your product.
It took me 10 minutes to create my own set of narrations from various articles on the web and for a private podcast to show up on Spotify an hour later. The narration was glitch free and rendered smooth. I wish it just took the current page URL instead of having to copy and paste as well as remembered my sign in credentials to Ad Auris. Great job team. You have a winner on your hands,
At first I thought this was built to allow someone to publish their own podcast (made of articles) that others can listen to.
I realize this may come with copyright challenges, but curious if this is part of the roadmap or if that's even something people want. 🤔
@rrhoover that's a great point! We wanted to make it possible for everyone to have a private podcast filled with exactly the content they'd like to listen to , but we've been also working with publications to make their own podcasts!
You can check out the podcast from Tyee (a publication here in BC Canada) that we created for them:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0t...
Enabling better sharing of playlists and audio is definitely part of the roadmap! I'll keep you updated :D
@rrhoover just realized we're both from Eugene! Wondering if you ever went to Bagel Sphere when you were at U of O?
@logan_underwood1 aha! There aren't very many of us in tech. Never went to Bagel Sphere (unsure if it was around during my tenure at UofO).
@rrhoover with you and Miguel McKelvey, Eugene is punching above its weight :D
Any substacks or publications you regularly read? I'll make sure to add them to the list of ones we pre-narrate so it's extra easy to listen to them!