We converted 7,000 articles from text to speech Medium You can listen to this article here : How many times have you wanted to read an article but didn’t have time for it? Or maybe reading was not the best convenience there was. Wouldn’t it be great if you could, with a click of a button be able to listen to any article? Now you can! with — a service that narrates articles for you! It turns articles into podcast like narrations that you can listen to while commuting, , running, or doing your errands. PLAY Medium eating We believe it’s the simplest, yet most convenient way of getting information, especially if you are like us who gets easily distracted or finds it difficult to keep up with long pieces of information, you can just go ‘earphones on & world off’ mode and let read it for you! PLAY We are building PLAY to provide you with on-demand accessibility to any information in audio form that sounds as natural and as human as possible. Our efforts towards achieving this have shown remarkable responses from users all around the world. We’ve had over narrated, listened and characters converted from text to speech! 7000 articles 17,000 minutes 45 million We just launched the website 4 days ago on PH, and at the time of writing this article, users have listened to over of articles. 70 hours Give us an upvote if you like the idea ;) On our website, you can search for authors, or articles from Medium, and other popular blogs and websites and create your very own custom playlist. You can save this playlist and let read it for you on your mobile device later. PLAY We have also built a Chrome extension that fits perfectly in your browser to enhance your Medium experience. You can use this extension to listen to Medium articles simply by playing them in a tab while you go about doing your work in others. One of the most used feature of the extension is that it turns your Medium bookmarks into a playlist. Just play one article from your bookmarks’ list and it will automatically play all your bookmarked articles! Feel free to leave a comment if you’re interested to know more about our upcoming features, or if you have any feedback or suggestions. We cannot thank enough who gave us this opportunity to share PLAY with you all on ! David Smooke Hackernoon Follow us on twitter to stay updated with any upcoming features.
