Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page?

On 2/17/2025 1:53 PM, Larry Wolff wrote:

I am still testing this T2S app which has a built-in web browser and which
will save the audio file for reuse later on, but it says it will have ads.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hesoft.T2S

While the "lureware" named "Article Reader AI" spoke the most human so far,
I have been able play the web site using T2S output to voice using one of
the 3 speech engines which seem to be installed on my Android 13 phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hesoft.T2S

T2S says it has ads but I haven't seen them yet. T2S has an internal web
browser which when pointed to the two pages, read each of them reasonably.

Part 1 (July 1956)
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1956/july/japans-losing-struggle-guadalcanal
Part 2 (August 1956)
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1956/august/japans-losing-struggle-guadalcanal

One specific problem with that web page is it only allows 5 views per IP I
think, so there's an advantage to being able to save to MP3 of easy re-use.

On small test samples of pasted text, T2S saved the MP3 file but on the
large 17K word combination of the two URLs above, it removed that option.

Since that web site is limited to 5 views and since I was getting close to
that limit, I copied and pasted the text from both into a single file.

That single tanaka.txt file was only 100KB but it was 16,882 words long.

I pasted tanaka.txt into the Zueira's Voice app, which doesn't read URLs.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brunopiovan.avozdazueira

Zueira's Voice also says it contains ads but I haven't seen any yet.
Of the ~17,000 words pasted into it, it read the whole thing but it stopped
at saving only the first hour (the last word was word 13,196 of 16,882).

I don't know if the one-hour audio limit is a mistake on my part or not.
The tanaka.mp3 file that Zueira's Voice saved was only 32MB in size.
 
Both T2S and Zueira's Voice are working for me, but T2S is reading the web
page but not saving the large audio file while Zueira's Voice can't read a
web page but it can save most of the large audio file.

There is a lot more testing I need to do so I will try any other apps
suggested (which I see in another post to test them before reporting back).

Best is free reading out loud of a web site where it can also save that
reading to an audio file for the kinds of web pages which limit view count.