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nice abstraction for listening to abstracts!

would really like a "curated playlist" option. The ability to filter based on "Topics" is a step in that direction and a further vetting down of options will make the app more usable.

nitpick: the TTS ends up pronouncing the markup as well. maybe the abstract can be cleaned before being passed through the TTS-generator.

eg. for the line: "This paper concerns designing distributed algorithms that are {\em singularly optimal}"

the "em" ends up on the audio and is confusing. refer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02197

(also, ability to permalink to the paper on the papertime.app will help.)


Haha, had never thought of it as an abstraction over abstracts! Thanks for the detailed feedback.

The TTS cleanup ought to become one of my top priorities. I’ve heard a lot of $k$ (dollar k dollar) is etc. I’m guessing it’s LaTeX markup bleeding over into the abstract text rendering somehow.

I am not able to figure out how to curate a list, since I’m just processing Arxiv papers as they come in! One option is to provide papers accepted at conferences.

Another is to let people upvote, but I fear voting dynamics can get messy. Also, without sufficient users, voting isn’t of much use.

I’ll see how I can implement permalinks. I’m not too familiar with doing that in single page apps so I need to work on it. Related question: would you like to be able to star/bookmark papers so that you can come back to them?


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