Vox – Listen to articles using a static website and OpenAI TTS API
Hey HN, I made Vox, a static website to listen to articles using OpenAI's text-to-speech API. For an article of about 2000 words, it will set you back about 15-25 cents. It uses IndexedDB to provide a searchable history of all articles you have converted in the past along with the audio and transcript. There's also an option to fetch the article text via archive.ph. You can also install the website as a PWA (on iOS, click the share button > "Add to Home Screen") to your home-screen. The code is open-source: https://github.com/prasoon2211/vox Word of warning though - I'm…
Vox – Listen to articles using a static website and OpenAI TTS API launched on August 12, 2024 with 7 votes, #2,085 of 5,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
What it does
Convert articles to speech using OpenAI
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, I made Vox, a static website to listen to articles using OpenAI's text-to-speech API. For an article of about 2000 words, it will set you back about 15-25 cents. It uses IndexedDB to provide a searchable history of all articles you have converted in the past along with the audio and transcript. There's also…
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