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QuickRead: Listen to Anything

Turn any text, PDF, or web page into audio with QuickRead. Your browser-based text-to-speech companion for effortless listening and enhanced productivity.

id="app-details-left"> Inspiration To make consuming any digital content effortless and accessible, especially for those on the go or with reading difficulties. What it does QuickRead transforms text, PDFs, and web articles into natural-sounding audio using browser-based text-to-speech. It features a content library and an intuitive reader. How we built it Developed as a single-page React and TypeScript application, leveraging Web Speech API, Fetch API for URL content, and pdf.js for PDF parsing. All data is client-side, persisted with localStorage. Challenges we ran into Overcoming browser…

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