Listen to short stories to learn German

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A few weeks ago I launched [1] this webapp to learn German with short stories [2] and since then I have received a lot of feedback and help from the HN community to make it better. Today, I wanted to share one of those improvements: audio. Many have asked for the ability to listen to the stories on top of just reading them. I am using text-to-speech APIs to transform the text into audio. For now there's only one voice, but perhaps that could be customizable later on. Would love to get your feedback on this and any other interesting ideas you have on the topic! Thanks and let me know if you have any questions. Here's an example story with audio: https://webbu.app/l/german/story/annas-first-bakery-in-germa... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713852 [2] https://webbu.app/german

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