Ranchero-Software
✨ Feature Request: Reader
One of the main problems using NetNewsWire is my backlog list of my undread articles is piling up and up. Are there any plans to add reader functionality with better voice engines like Amazon Polly or Google Cloud Speech Solutions?
It hadn’t occurred to me at all. We have no such plans. But we could consider it for the future.
💯 please do consider this feature. RSS + Voice reading articles out loud is my ideal way to consume internet content. Similar to listening to podcasts (with a live transcript in front of me and without ads -- win/win). I've tried mobile voice reader apps to read content from RSS feed reader apps and it's doable, but the workflow is clunky, and not ideal for situations like "at work" or "in the car". 1 app that just gets the content I want from the sites I want, and then can optionally read it out loud to me, in order, with decent controls... :chefs-kiss:
I also share the same thoughts here. Recently in Producthunt, I came across a product called Audiblogs. End-to-end experience is not fully evolved but it does the voice part very well. I think NetNewsWire is in a better position to advantage the voice feature. So hopefully please do consider this feature for the future.
Two plus years later, I'll add another request for text to speech, specifically in the iOS app. Some examples of other apps doing this are Substack and Omnivore (which is open source -- if the license is compatible perhaps that code could be used.)
I wonder if the simplest way would be to share articles with Omnivore (or similar reader). This is easy enough on iOS, if you have Omnivore installed; and presumably it's similar on macOS. For web, I guess it's dependent on APIs.
