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Omnivore is Shutting Down and Team Joining ElevenLabs
Omnivore, on Omnivore Blog:
We’re excited to share that Omnivore is joining forces with ElevenLabs, the leading AI audio research and technology company. Our team is joining ElevenLabs to help drive the future of accessible reading and listening with their new ElevenReader app.
Oh interesting. I’ve tried their appand it wasn’t bad. Text to speech was great. There’s just an uncanny valley with these AI readers than I can’t get over yet. Maybe in a blind test I wouldn’t even notice, but it throws me off when I do know.
Next, all Omnivore users will be able to export their information from the service through November 15 2024, after which all information will be deleted.
Oh crap. This is throws a huge wrench into my snippet workflow. I used Omnivore — over Readwise Reader — for this blog’s snippets because of its amazing Obisidian plugin. It allowed for very powerful customization in settings (folder location, naming, YAML, custom queries, etc), and file template. In combination with its web parse, it allowed me to easily include authors in my draft notes using this template:
I landed on this workflow after a very long road that included Apple Shortcuts, Drafts and many more. Which is why this two week notice stings. I’m revisiting my tests with Instapaper, Raindrop.io and Readwise Reader, but none of their updates allow for a drop-in replacement yet.