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Enroute.fm narrates the places around you and in between desitnations. Enhances any trip into a guided audio tour. Global coverage: 250,000+ places across 183 countries. Each audio is an engaging, quality-controled two-person podcast.
I'm the developer of Enroute.fm. I built a toy audio app originally for my last roadtrip, but went a bit crazy and scaled the podcast pipelines to almost all of the world, hoping one day I will visit all of the places.
Why? I loved using AI tools like NotebookLLM and ChatGPT for travel narrations, but they are all limited in their own ways. Human narration apps have great quality but suffer from coverage.
How? Nothing fancy, but most of the work went into building a complex quality-controled pipeline rather than the app itself. Podcasts are powered by SOTA multi-lingo & multi-speaker TTS engines. Each script is the result of converging multiple rounds of review and factcheck (yes I burned too many tokens lol).
I enjoyed using it during my roadtrip and I hope you do too!
how does it handle offline use on long drives through spotty cell coverage, especially crossing rural areas or borders where roaming gets unreliable?
Curious how it picks the stopping points along a longer drive, like does it decide based on distance or points of interest, and can I skip ahead if I already know the history of a place?
Love how it auto-places stories based on your location instead of you hunting for a playlist. Two-person narration format is such a smart choice, way more engaging than a single AI voice reading off dates.
How does it pick which stories to play when you pass a bunch of spots in quick succession, and is there a way to skip ahead if one isnt interesting?
How does it decide which spots to highlight when there are so many in a dense area, and can you pick specific themes like food or architecture before starting the trip?
Love how the two-person podcast format keeps long drives from feeling like a solo Wikipedia read. The way each stop drops in naturally as you pass by makes it feel like having a knowledgeable friend in the passenger seat.
About Enroute.fm on Product Hunt
“AI travel podcasts for 180+ countries”
Enroute.fm was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #135 on the daily leaderboard. Enroute.fm narrates the places around you and in between desitnations. Enhances any trip into a guided audio tour. Global coverage: 250,000+ places across 183 countries. Each audio is an engaging, quality-controled two-person podcast.
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James Hu
Hi ProductHunt,
I'm the developer of Enroute.fm. I built a toy audio app originally for my last roadtrip, but went a bit crazy and scaled the podcast pipelines to almost all of the world, hoping one day I will visit all of the places.
Why? I loved using AI tools like NotebookLLM and ChatGPT for travel narrations, but they are all limited in their own ways. Human narration apps have great quality but suffer from coverage.
How? Nothing fancy, but most of the work went into building a complex quality-controled pipeline rather than the app itself. Podcasts are powered by SOTA multi-lingo & multi-speaker TTS engines. Each script is the result of converging multiple rounds of review and factcheck (yes I burned too many tokens lol).
I enjoyed using it during my roadtrip and I hope you do too!