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                  1. What's this now Medium? Audio versions of stories streaming from above the headline players with no option to download? Who, besides the blind, is this for exactly?
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                  It baffles me. Every few years we go around the whole 'people want their articles read to them' carousel. It doesn't work. Even if they were implemented well (which they never are), what situation would cause readers to listen to bland readings of text they've already arrived on?
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                If someone wanted this to work there are definitive technical benchmarks that are never met to even give the concept a chance (which I doubt would succeed anyway, but...), like basic UX thinking.
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              One: I have a big monitor and if I open an article and get this, I'm never going to click it or scroll back to it once I scroll down. There's zero info here:
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            Then, there's the problem or reader control. Can I bookmark where I left off? How do I remember it? What if I want to listen to it a 1.5x? What about .5x? What if I want to step 15secs back because I am on my damn computer and doing something else?
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          How do I share an audio clip? How do I share the audio? What if I want a pullquote to put in my Facebook post of this story? How do I remember where I am listening to it if my browser doesn't have per-tab audio symbols.
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        If I pause audio how can I get back to it at a later time without scrubbing? Why can't I use the pause/play buttons on my keyboard or device? If I'm mobile will this play when my screen is off? What if I want to pre-download it for the train?
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      There's no character or differentiation to the audio of a lot of these efforts, which is terrible because if you listen to successful podcasts they are full of character, voice and a sense of the reader's general humanity.
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    To be clear: Audio of articles is a concept that is not entirely without potential. But there's no way that potential can be met in the current implementations.
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