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Among the readers introduced in the e-book reading App, palm reading, QQ reading and WeChat reading all support reading functions, and users can listen to books at inconvenient times. Because they all use speech engines to read text (TTS), the progress will not be interrupted when switching between watching and listening.
Speaking of voice technology, we must mention Iflytek, a company that specializes in voice technology. Their Iflytek input method is famous for its strong voice recognition ability, while Iflytek's thesaurus has gained a large number of users through real-time voice dictation, conference recording and transcription, photo recognition (OCR) and other functions.
"Iflytek" also launched an App dedicated to listening to books, called-
TTS is a speech synthesis technology. As long as it is written, it can be read to you. You don't have to rely on others like listening to real people reading. The disadvantage is that your tone is very artificial and blunt. The reading functions of palm reading, QQ reading and WeChat reading are all like this. With their own technical accumulation, users generally report that Iflytek's book-listening artifact sounds more comfortable.
Some people can't adapt to TTS They want to find an e-book reader with live audio. Wechat reading also has live audio, but these contents are book reviews, not original reading. If you want to find an e-book reader for real people to read the original text, lazy people can meet the requirements.
Lazy people listen to the audio content of many books, but there are fewer e-books in the book city. Although it focuses on "the combination of listening and reading", it is actually more common to be short of one.
The audio content of lazy people listening to books is mainly books, but it also includes talk shows, radio, folk arts and operas. Take a big and comprehensive direction. If you just want to listen to the original reading and like the "small but beautiful" service, then you can try reading at ten o'clock or listening to IELTS.
Reading at ten o'clock falls into three categories:
The audio content in IELTS static listening can be divided into two categories, one is reading books and the other is reading short articles.
Some people have no patience to read or listen to the original. 20 17 "Chapter 42 Classics" Qu Kai published a record entitled "Redefining Knowledge-Thinking Dialogue between Seven Investors and Ji Thirteen", in which some investors said that in the era of fragmented reading, people have higher requirements for knowledge density. To cope with this change, there are three applications: Get, Book and Fan Deng Reading-all of which focus on book interpretation and audio courses.
There are also e-book readers in the library, but they still read the original text in TTS.
There are many audio programs on the Internet other than books (of course, those popular programs will be published later). If you want to listen to all kinds of audio content, you can install a comprehensive podcast App. Comprehensive podcast apps include Himalayan FM, Dragonfly FM, Litchi FM, and Koala FM. , including the lazy listening book introduced earlier.
Speaking of podcasting, it is said that it has become a relatively mature industry in the United States, with many well-known podcasting brands that have been operating for more than ten years. The podcasting industry in China has also developed rapidly, with many professional teams and many independent podcasts.
Due to various restrictions, some commercial podcasts only log on to personal podcast platforms, while some independent podcasts only update on their own websites. Therefore, even if the large and comprehensive apps such as Himalayan FM, Dragonfly FM, Litchi FM and Listening Companion are used, heavy listeners of podcasts sometimes encounter exclusive content troubles.
In fact, Podcast also use RSS Feed services, and we can subscribe to them by using Feedly, Inoreader and NewsBlur (see Aggregate Reading).
However, apps such as Reeder, Unread and Fiery Feeds lack functions specially designed for podcasting, so subscribing to apps with general podcasts is a better choice. The podcasts such as iOS, come, Castro, Pocket Casts, Agora 2, Moon FM, etc. included in the App Store are all universal podcast subscription applications.
We click on the RSS link on the page of the independent podcast website, and the system will start the podcast subscription App for us to add subscriptions.
Through the conversion service provided by the website https://getpodcast.xyz, Himalayan FM, Dragonfly FM, Litchi FM, Listening Companion, WeChat official account and podcast programs in Netease Cloud Music can all be converted into RSS Feed, and then you can subscribe to the App with podcasts on it to listen to (of course, you can't expect paid programs to do this).
When introducing "alternative e-books" and apps that listen to books and podcasts, I have been struggling with a question: where is the boundary between the words "book" and "reading"? Later, I remembered that Utopia once introduced a wine called Time, and Liang Wendao wrote an article called Publishing a Wine, so I think it should be forgiven to classify listening to podcasts as reading.
Redefining knowledge —— A thinking dialogue between seven investors and Ji XIII said that there are two main points of content dissemination, one is density and the other is communication path. Liang Wendao opposed the idea of wringing water to purify, and wrote several articles attacking (one pill and one orange, one pill and one orange, two pills and one orange, how dry should the dry goods be? "and so on. ). But as far as the path is concerned, just look at the name "publishing a wine" and you will know how much he supports it. In fact, Liang Wendao planned "Seeing the Ideal" under the banner of Utopia.
Some books are made into TV series or movies, and some audio-visual programs are very popular, and producers will choose to publish books. With the development of Internet, there are more choices of communication paths, and with the development of science and technology, the threshold of multimedia creation is also decreasing, so it can be combined in various forms to meet people's diverse needs.
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