On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Bernd Sitzmann <bernd(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
It looks like Mobile Apps and Mobile Web have
different priority
requirements from Parsoid here. Looking at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spoken_articles, I also see that
there are only 1243 spoken wikipedia articles (that are probably not all
the latest version of these articles). It also doesn't look like the
video
player works currently in mobile web or in mobile
apps (except maybe
Android ?).
With due respect for the hard work people have put in on that project, is
there any indication Spoken Articles has any traction and will grow beyond
that ~1K articles? Wouldn't using Android's TTS API to read the most
up-to-date version of the article be a much better user experience (35M
articles, always up-to-date, instead of 1K articles, almost always out of
date?)
Luis
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