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Re: Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles

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It doesn't mention it anywhere on the website, but this is using Google's Text to Speech ( https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ ). I recognize the voice. I've used Google's TTS to convert books into audiobooks. Surprisingly listenable.

I am building a product on the same. Can you help with your advise?

Re: Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles

#12
post #8

It doesn't mention it anywhere on the website, but this is using Google's Text to Speech ( https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ ). I recognize the voice. I've used Google's TTS to convert books into audiobooks. Surprisingly listenable.

I am building a product on the same. Can you help with your advise?

What do you need help on? It's just a few lines of calling the Google TTS API. I can find it when I get off from work.

Re: Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles

#15
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am building a product on the same. Can you help with your advise?

What do you need help on? It's just a few lines of calling the Google TTS API. I can find it when I get off from work.

I am taking the following steps to convert it in audiobook. 1. Split Doc into chapters 2. Feed the chapter into TTS 3. Join the audio chapters into the book.

I working on the solution for 1 and 3. It would be really helpful if you can provide some suggestions for 1 and 3.

Re: Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles

#16
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you need help on? It's just a few lines of calling the Google TTS API. I can find it when I get off from work.

I am taking the following steps to convert it in audiobook. 1. Split Doc into chapters 2. Feed the chapter into TTS 3. Join the audio chapters into the book. I working on the solution for 1 and 3. It would be really helpful if you can provide some suggestions for 1 and 3.

Why do you need to split the chapters? And isn't 3 just concatenation of audio files?

Re: Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles

#17
Other people have said it already, but you are charging too little for your service. You should increase the price by at least 10 times. People use price as a proxy for value, and things that are priced too low are perceived as low quality. Increasing the price may even increase sales!

Re: Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles

#18

Nice work! This is an impressive product - the voice sounds human and it’s easy to understand. Allow me to make a few suggestions: A low effort improvement to the landing page would be to move link to a sample from the bottom to the top. Make it the first thing a visitor sees. Let the product speak for itself. You shoukd charge more too. $.50 on a for-life value add feels like you’re only capturing a teensy tiny frac…

+1 Auto podcast distribution

Re: Show HN: Blogcast – Generate audio versions of your articles

#19

Nice work! This is an impressive product - the voice sounds human and it’s easy to understand. Allow me to make a few suggestions: A low effort improvement to the landing page would be to move link to a sample from the bottom to the top. Make it the first thing a visitor sees. Let the product speak for itself. You shoukd charge more too. $.50 on a for-life value add feels like you’re only capturing a teensy tiny frac…

Note: $45 of value bc it will still take ~10m/article (using friendly numbers for convenience) to convert the text to speech with this product then upload/embed the audio file.
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