Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔
So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯
It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️
👉 We could call them: textcasts!
And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here:
https://rys.io/en/feed.rss
TBF I would really like something that transcribes podcasts or videos and maybe removes/deemphasizes[1] the speech mannerisms that are helpful for speech but not for text (e.g. some kinds of repetitions). I haven't seen yet anything that would do even the first part well totally automatically, but I think both parts are much closer than other things people dream of AI doing.
[1] in text, one can use various font style tricks to do so
