WAVERLY: TURN ARTICLES INTO SHORT PODCASTS
I built this project over the summer of 2017. See it live here: https://waverly1.herokuapp.com/ WAVERLY gets a URL of a textual article from the web, parses the content correctly to remove unneeded text, such as ads, captions, and images, and uses Amazon's Polly to turn the clean text into an audio snippet.
About
WAVERLY is a web application, that uses text-to-speech technology, provided by Amazon Polly, to allow users to save textual articles and to convert them into audio snippets (similar to a short podcast episode), which sound human-like.
Main screen - Web
Podcast screen - Web
Share menu - Web
ingredients
Text-to-speech + Speech synthesis - AWS Amazon Polly
Cloud storage - AWS Amazon S3
Backend - Django
Html-to-text - html2text + beautifulsoup4 + Mercury web parser + Self written heuristics