The Listen to Page feature on Mobile Safari has been a lovely new addition to iOS. I’ve been using it since iOS 17 released and it has been great. The feature basically lets you listen to articles/posts opened in the Safari browser on iOS.
Safari has always had the Speech feature, which would let you select text on a web page and select Speech from the context menu. It sounded awful and there were no controls. If you accidentally selected a large text and select the Speech option, you’re screwed. I don’t remember if you could stop the Speech by closing the tab. Anyway, it was an awful implementation.
The new Listen to Page feature addresses all the issues with the previous inferior implementation.
Awesomeness
1. It shows user controls 🎉
2. It supports Dynamic Island 🏝️
3. You can end it, whenever ✅
4. And finally, the best part – It uses Siri’s voice! 🤖 It doesn’t feel robotic anymore.
if you’re like me and have a ton of articles that you need to catch up on, this would be the ideal way to go. You can basically listen to them all while commuting or exercising.
Ideally, I would like to make all of this seamless by using my “Read later” list to create a personal podcast for myself that I could listen to whenever. That way, any time I add a url to that folder on my bookmarks bar, it’d get picked up and added to my podcast for me to consume later. I haven’t done any kind of research on whether I can achieve this using SiriKit yet. Something like this could be a Safari extension or a basic iOS app.
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