{"id":39289,"date":"2023-05-05T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39289"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:50:13","slug":"instapaper-8-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/instapaper-8-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Instapaper 8.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.instapaper.com\/post\/716397810350784513\">Instapaper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.instapaper.com\/post\/716397810350784513\">\n<p>This release features a new CarPlay app for playing articles, a number of text-to-speech improvements including access to more voices, the ability to edit article metadata, and other improvements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Listening to articles is a cool idea, but I found that even the high-quality Alex voice just isn&rsquo;t that pleasant. The post says to download additional voices using <strong>Settings &#x2023; Accessibility &#x2023; Speech &#x2023; Voices<\/strong>, but, oddly, that screen no longer seems to exist. Instead, the list of voices is duplicated within <strong>Settings &#x2023; Accessibility &#x2023; VoiceOver &#x2023; Speech &#x2023; Voice<\/strong>, <strong>Settings &#x2023; Accessibility &#x2023; Switch Control &#x2023; Speech &#x2023; Voices<\/strong>, etc. Instapaper does not provide access to the newer, numbered Siri voices.<\/p>\n<p>Speech aside, I have been enjoying using Instapaper more lately. The loss of Twitter clients forced me to change my workflow, and I found that I don&rsquo;t need Twitter or Mastodon on my iOS home screen. Now I reach for Instapaper or Flickr when I have a couple free minutes.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/20\/twitter-makes-it-official\/\">Twitter Makes It Official<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/18\/history-of-instapaper\/\">History of Instapaper<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instapaper: This release features a new CarPlay app for playing articles, a number of text-to-speech improvements including access to more voices, the ability to edit article metadata, and other improvements. Listening to articles is a cool idea, but I found that even the high-quality Alex voice just isn&rsquo;t that pleasant. The post says to download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-05-05T19:50:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"28a9b0de-82bf-461c-8a5a-344ce0c890f3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-05-05T19:50:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKKmw3oK_RhyKWjRM4MiQ8w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,794,393,31,2185,26,2376],"class_list":["post-39289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-audio","tag-carplay","tag-instapaper","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-speech-synthesis"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39290,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289\/revisions\/39290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}