On: Amazon Echo Dot

[bckmn]

You would probably be interested in what we've been building over at https://www.narro.co.

[visarga → bckmn]

It would be nice if it could extract forum discussions, like YC and Reddit. Sometimes I like to hear the text I am reading, it helps with concentration.

[amelius → visarga]

Yes, I'd like to see the possibility to select text, right click and select "read out loud".

[kalleboo → amelius]

I think all the browsers on OS X support that using the system text-to-speech (edit: Safari and Chrome, not Firefox)

[amelius → kalleboo]

I'm using Linux. It seems that Linux is falling behind in the area of speech input/output. I hope they will catch up.