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Chris Armstrong
Personal blog · chasingperfection.co.uk · on HN as cgarmstrongdesignwriting
Chris Armstrong writes Chasing Perfection, a personal blog at chasingperfection.co.uk about design and writing. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on text-to-speech and Kindle's built-in TTS history, citing them as sources when discussing ElevenReader and Apple's AI-narrated audiobooks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Chris Armstrong is a designer and writer from Bournemouth, on the South Coast of England.
Most-linked posts?
- /post/2013/01/14/text-to-speech-kindle2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-09
What Hacker News says?
I don't know if you remember but some of the earlier Kindles had both speakers and TTS built in but were sadly pressured to remove the feature. https://chasingperfection.co.uk/post/2013/01/14/text-to-spee...
Comment linking /post/2013/01/14/text-to-speech-kindle
on “ElevenReader”Submitted The Microsoft Surface Isn’t Rosy as a story · 33 points
HN discussionKindle had this for how long before they got cold feet at disrupting/killing a whole industry? That was, what, 10 years ago? Oh, more[1][2]! I'd love to know the chronology exactly. I had mistakenly been under the impression that Kindle had actually removed the feature entirely for a long while after it's late-2000's launch, but based on what I found it was only disabled for some content, I don't see much evidence t…
Comment linking /post/2013/01/14/text-to-speech-kindle
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