Show HN: Text-to-podcast: Repurpose any content into podcasts

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Post by paulaz » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 10:29 PM UTC

Show HN: Text-to-podcast: Repurpose any content into podcasts
narratedbypoise.com

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Post by felix12777 » Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 11:05 PM UTC

Great concept. The other day I stumbled upon https://podcastle.ai/ - I am wondering what makes your product different and how's the performance of conversion so far?

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Post by ggggtez » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 12:02 AM UTC

But does it automatically include ads for mattresses?

That seems to be the reason podcasts exist to begin with.

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Post by asimjalis » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 12:03 AM UTC

Nice. The voice sounded completely real. Are you using AI on the back-end or real humans? If real humans how long is the turnaround time?

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Post by narrationbox » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 12:50 AM UTC

When evaluating end-to-end human narration services, the most important factor is audio mastering. For services that target the podcast industry, good quality audio output that can be used as-is is a must.

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Post by asciident » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 1:04 AM UTC

asimjalis wrote: post #4

Nice. The voice sounded completely real. Are you using AI on the back-end or real humans? If real humans how long is the turnaround time?

The voice itself says it's a real voice, and based on the pricing, it looks like it's just narration-as-a-service rather than any automated technique.

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Post by djeiasbsbo » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 1:14 AM UTC

ggggtez wrote: post #3

But does it automatically include ads for mattresses? That seems to be the reason podcasts exist to begin with.

Because of your comment I googled and came across the company Saatva. I was surprised to see that it is actually a fairly big company which had a revenue of $375 million in 2019. Podcast marketing must be really effective.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saatva)

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Post by alexjm » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 1:24 AM UTC

felix12777 wrote: post #2

Great concept. The other day I stumbled upon https://podcastle.ai/ - I am wondering what makes your product different and how's the performance of conversion so far?

Not to be confused with https://podcastle.org/, which is a podcast of fantasy short stories.

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Post by KMnO4 » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

asimjalis wrote: post #4

Nice. The voice sounded completely real. Are you using AI on the back-end or real humans? If real humans how long is the turnaround time?

I didn't dive much deeper, but the header text says "Narrated by real voices". I guess that's why it costs $11/500 words, which is an order of magnitude higher than TTS solutions.

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Post by Causality1 » Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 3:08 AM UTC

felix12777 wrote: post #2

Great concept. The other day I stumbled upon https://podcastle.ai/ - I am wondering what makes your product different and how's the performance of conversion so far?

I got very excited at that link and then progressively more and more disappointed. Why do they have a slick animated ad reel with no example of the speech output? Why is there no example anywhere, even on YouTube? What's the point of this as a chrome extension when you can already say "ok Google, read aloud"?

Maybe I'm just salty that I'll never find a good solution for my favorite ebooks that never got an audiobook version.