A couple of days ago, I started to see these little boxes at the top of the hive posts in peakd.
I was intrigued and then I saw the post by peakd explaining that you could now listen to hive posts that are at least 200 words long and in English thanks to a text to speech feature.
The first trials were horrible because of my German settings
I tried to listen to a post but it was horrible because I use google chrome and my language settings were in German. So the text was read in a germanised English and it was pretty tough to understand anything at all.
Changing the settings
At the top right of my browser, I managed to go to settings and there in the language section, I could switch my preferred language to English. I then had to restart chrome. After that, I tried it again and the quality of the text to speech feature was pretty amazing.
Of course, there are still some details that are a bit strange, for example when there are emoticons in the text, it's quite funny. It renders by something like „open mouth,...“ and it cuts a bit the flow of the text. Otherwise, when the text structure is done well by the author, it's quite easy to follow the content and to understand it.
Building a new habit thanks to it
I started to listen to posts on a regular basis now and it's great while doing something else like playing Splinterlands battles. I listen to the posts, learn something and can give a comment at the end. Suddenly, I can consume much more content than ever before!
A big thanks to 
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