Show HN: Orate – On-device neural text-to-speech queue for Mac

Hey friends! Brad here - long time HN user, founder, engineer (Coinbase, Soothe, Jeevz, Release, Hired, GrowthX, etc)...

I have been struggling recently with too many tabs, emails, articles, etc sitting unread while I swap between Claude code sessions all day. So I decided to build Orate to help me work through the backlog by listening to it all like I would a podcast.

Orate allows you to select any text on your screen and keyboard shortcut it to a listening queue where it gets processed