Ask HN: How to read out loud articles with equations and code?

5 points

4 months ago

I have been toying with the idea of converting my blog posts to audio by reading them out loud. The primary purpose of this would be to practice my English-as-a-second-language, but also there's a chance someone might like to learn from the articles that way instead of reading.

(My inspiration here is The Economist, which publishes high-quality audio recordings of their articles. Their voice actors do a great job. I want to learn how to do that too!)

Unlike the newspaper, my articles often contain code, plots, tables and/or equations, which can't really be read out loud verbatim. I'm out of role models here. Who are some people who read technical stuff out loud and do a good job of it? How do they solve the equations-and-code problem?

I get that podcasting is a completely different format from written articles, so this question might have no answer at all. Or the answer might be "write a separate script to be read that elides many of the technical details" which is beyond what I can take time to do.

Here's a recent example containing plots, graphs, equations, and code: https://entropicthoughts.com/nvidia-stock-crash-prediction