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.
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#12It 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?
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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 working on the solution for 1 and 3. It would be really helpful if you can provide some suggestions for 1 and 3.
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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.
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#18Nice 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…
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#19Nice 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…