Show HN: Convert blog articles to high-quality audio

You know ten years ago I would have 100% agreed with you. In fact I would have been outraged as to why anyone would want to know.

And yet today, I consider the provenance of a product to be more or less my No. 1 consideration in whether I will use it or not.

We live in a world where brands and products are established, then monetized and eventually their userbase becomes just a trading chip that passes from hand to hand. We're giving access or money or trusting systems and we really have no control over the transfer of that trust, data or money.

So unfortunately now, yes it really matters a lot. You're asking me to add code to a website of mine: I want your address, your email, your phone number...I need to know who you really are.

What I see (image: https://postimg.cc/3yg6p19w) is a "try it now" arrow, but no button, anywhere above the fold.

Pricing looks expensive, but quality is top notch. Do you know which TTS engine it is?

If this is not a wake up call for me, I don't know what it should be. I had this same exact idea for 9 months now but never moved to execute. Reading through site it even has the same wording as in my head.

As a developer I wanted to build something like this and it looks easy(without AI part). But following the startup gurus and podcasts I figured that idea should be validated first and to find actual customers is more important than building technology. Here started troubles. I have no skills in marketing and when diving deeper it looked cumbersome for me. I spend free credits on AdSense but it only brought 8 emails for empty newsletter.

I'm interested did you do the research on user base? What would be a market for this?

Where are you planning to grow the site? Do you have monetization plan?

p.s. found a link in comments for read2me.online, and just from demo they sound really good for ears

I’ve wondered for a while with NPR doesn’t have both audio and text of all of their programs.

Sometimes I can listen, but not read (driving). Sometimes, I can read but not listen (work, or just when I’m without headphones). I realize they want high quality voice, but if at the moment all they have is text that’s ok with me. Not having both of these often means I just skip that article and never come back to it