Nice idea - would love to have some kind of daily mix with all the papers from my field / some way to prioritise them automatically based on the most important ones I should have read
Ah cool! Great to see accessibility stuff like this. Listening to papers makes it much easier for me to focus on the content.
I made my own little service that converts any webpage to hopefully the parsed content then uses Google TTS and then published it to a bucket and s3 feed and I listen to them on my phone before bed.
Not undermining this effort, but one could always use notebookLM for that.
Just paste arxiv pdf link in notebookLM and it generates a very good podcast that is also customizable through prompt.
This looks like the Blinkist app's next evolution. Most of the summary tools you guys mentioned like notebookLLM, Scirate etc. cover general non-domain expertise and rely on simple RAG/knowledge bases.
Academia definitely needs a tool that can parse complex equations, cross-links etc.
I was using notebookLLM today with FAA aviation charts loaded and the tool still hallucinates and does not parse visual data (maps, charts) well. I can imagine that in the world of ArXiv papers similar level of complex charts and visualizations would not be processed properly
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Academia definitely needs a tool that can parse complex equations, cross-links etc.
I was using notebookLLM today with FAA aviation charts loaded and the tool still hallucinates and does not parse visual data (maps, charts) well. I can imagine that in the world of ArXiv papers similar level of complex charts and visualizations would not be processed properly