Show HN: I built an audiobook player that syncs with your physical book(earleaf.app)
earleaf.app
Show HN: I built an audiobook player that syncs with your physical book
https://earleaf.app/blog/introducing-earleaf
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Dope idea, I don’t know why it didn’t come to me first. I usually receive physical books and the first think I do is buy the audio version instead.
Cheers! Yeah, I've been switching between both mediums for a couple of years now, and this feature has really made things so much easier! I've actually been surprised at how smoothly it works.
It's called Earleaf, and lets you play your local audibook files.
The feature I'm most excited about is Page Sync. You take a photo of a page in your physical book (or e-book) and the app finds that position in the audiobook and jumps to it. It works by transcribing the book on-device, and when you take a photo, it uses ML Kit to do the OCR scanning, and matches the text against the transcription. The initial transcription takes a while, but that's a one-time thing, and when it's in place, the actual search takes about two seconds on my device. And everything runs locally.
Aside from Page Sync, it's a full-featured player with nested collections, independent listen-through tracking, and a pretty good statistics feature. There are no accounts, no internet required, no ads.
Happy to answer questions about the app and its features!