Author Topic: Instapaper app - How to have Siri read you aloud every MMM article for listening  (Read 3928 times)

ljsurfer2002

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So I love MMM but have little time to read the articles. An amazing solution is the free app 'Instapaper' (available on iOS and Google Play). It allows you via your mobile device (or chrome browser) to click the "I" button of their app / plug-in and have the article 'save for later' / offline reading. The best feature though is the 'speak' button which will have your iPhone read the entire MMM article you saved in siri-female-robot-voice. "Premium" in-app purchase of the full app https://www.instapaper.com/premium ($2.99/month or $29.99/year and can be paid with iTunes $ / credits) is the real kick-ass badassery though. You can 'create a playlist to speak' and can in your Chrome browser open up many many months of MMM posts from the 'complete list of all posts' in many tabs, 'save' each one to Instapaper (chrome extension button or CTRL-SHIFT-S ) and then they will all show up in your iOS instapaper app > Edit > Create Playlist > Select All > Play.

Then Siri will start to read to you each and every MMM article you told her to read to you. I have been doing long drives for a special project this week and I have been crushing through the 2012 and 2013 MMM articles with all the drive time I have. Very highly recommended! I had started at the very start / first article and now finally with this text to speech tool I'll finally realize my dream of devouring each and every MMM article since the beginning of time!

P.S. Here is TechCrunch's review of the new app with all of its text-to-speech features: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/17/instapaper-goes-freemium-with-big-ios-redesign/

FriendlyFIRE

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Thanks.  This is pretty great!

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Eric

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So I love MMM but have little time to read the articles.

You don't have time to read one article a month? 

ZING!

use2betrix

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I didn't even know this forum existed until I probably read every article twice lol.

Jeremy E.

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So I love MMM but have little time to read the articles.

You don't have time to read one article a month? 

ZING!
In October he put out 0 articles lol

I didn't even know this forum existed until I probably read every article twice lol.
same here, it's crazy how many people ask questions that MMM already has an article about, I think half my forum posts are me just pasting either a MMM or JL Collins article link lol
« Last Edit: November 12, 2015, 02:45:32 PM by Jeremy E. »

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So I love MMM but have little time to read the articles.

You don't have time to read one article a month? 

ZING!

I'll admit. I laughed. Audibly.