So one issue I can think of with this, would be that you often mold a work to be a podcast, by adding in extra auditory elements that wouldn't work in a pure text format. Listen to the BBC world service, often in their longer pieces they add in auditory clues like a busy street with the sounds of people bustling and so on to clue in the audience about what is happening. I can't imagine a straight rock bottom priced translation to a podcast working super well.
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#12Great 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?
One is voiced by humans the other by ai
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#13Nice. 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.
> I guess that's why it costs $11/500 words, which is an order of magnitude higher than TTS solutions.
Multiple orders of magnitude.
TTS and VC are going to do to voice over and narration what Getty and Flikr did for photography.
We're not quite there, but we're not far off. Give it two more years.
(I work pretty closely on this domain. I built https://vo.codes, which sounds like shit, but it's adjacent to cutting edge techniques that sound practically real.)
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#14But 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 )
And now you know why Spotify is so gung-ho into podcasts, lately.
That and the payola for advertising your content on their platform[0] and the not having to pay artist royalties.
[0] https://support.spotifyforpodcasters.com/hc/en-us/articles/3...
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#15This is a really cool service for content creators who want to easily switch channels.
Descript offers the ability to go the other way with their transcription service https://www.descript.com/
For readers who want to listen to articles that they like, there's the (free?) Pocket text to speech service, plus other sites like mine (https://blogreader.com.au/) which put TTS articles into a podcast for you.
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#16But 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 )
unless this is sarcasm, that is a glaring cause and effect error. consider that maybe already large companies are the ones with money to blow on podcasts.
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#17I want this but for legal cases.
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#18Nice. 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?
We wanted to optimise for human engagement so we went to real people :) TTS is fine for some things but very few people actually want to listen to a robot reading to them.
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#19Nice. 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.
Yes, we work with real narrators who really care about delivering the best possible reading. TTS is fine but it's never going be able to engage an audience in the same way a real voice can.
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#20So one issue I can think of with this, would be that you often mold a work to be a podcast, by adding in extra auditory elements that wouldn't work in a pure text format. Listen to the BBC world service, often in their longer pieces they add in auditory clues like a busy street with the sounds of people bustling and so on to clue in the audience about what is happening. I can't imagine a straight rock bottom priced t…
Hey, glad you raised this. It's true that not all content works narrated. We offer an editing service to make content ready for narration & break it up into manageable episodes.
You can hear some of our recent work here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-simpplr-podcast/id...