Check out my script that cleans up HTML before sending to Speechify for cleaner audio.

Anyone else get garbled audio from web articles? The HTML junk Speechify ingests causes weird pauses and mispronunciations.

I built a preprocessing script. Strips ads, nav, non-content elements. Outputs clean text. Saw a 90% reduction in parsing errors.

**Features:**
* Removes script, style, header, footer tags.
* Extracts main article content using readability logic.
* Collapses excessive whitespace and newlines.
* Optional: outputs plain text or minimal HTML.

```python
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

def clean_html(html_content):
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')
for element in soup(["script", "style", "nav", "footer", "aside", "header"]):
element.decompose()
# Simple main content extraction (can replace with trafilatura or readability-lxml)
main_content = soup.find('article') or soup.find('main') or soup.body
text = main_content.get_text(separator='n', strip=True)
# Normalize whitespace
lines = (line.strip() for line in text.splitlines())
chunks = (phrase.strip() for line in lines for phrase in line.split(" "))
text = 'n'.join(chunk for chunk in chunks if chunk)
return text

if __name__ == "__main__":
# Read from URL or file
input_source = sys.argv[1]
if input_source.startswith('http'):
resp = requests.get(input_source)
html = resp.text
else:
with open(input_source, 'r') as f:
html = f.read()
clean_text = clean_html(html)
print(clean_text)
```

**Usage:**
```bash
python cleaner.py https://example.com/article | pbcopy
```
Then paste into Speechify.

Requires `beautifulsoup4` and `requests`. Lightweight. Integrate into your browser via bookmarklet or automate with a CLI wrapper.