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Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

#11

I was expecting to see a video above the fold, made with wowto.ai, about what wowto.ai is.

Yeah I understand we will update it soon, but we do have a lot of samples created with WowTo.ai in the website, also our help center (https://app.wowto.ai/help) is a multi-lingual video knowledgebase.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

#12

We are eager to announce to the HN community the public release of "WowTo" - software for creating How-To videos. Pain point: Creating How-To videos which can be tutorials, guides, step-by-step walkthroughs or video slideshows are difficult to create with current video editors in the market. Because they target a wide base so either they lack certain much needed features for creating How-tos or becomes complex to edi…

I really like the idea, but watching some demos at the bottom of the page, I did not like the generated voices. They are unpleasant to hear, and I constantly compare them to crappy YouTube tutorial that have similar TTS voices.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

#13
There was a very nice software called studio1 (defunct now i think) which allowed you to write phantomjs scripts (using a chrome extension) to create how to videos like this.

So instead of an image slideshow it was a very smooth video where it looked as if it was an actual screen recording and much easier to follow. Might be worth investigating as a feature upgrade, since that site shutdown.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

#14
Thank you! It looks great! Just to understand the plans, p. example in "Plus" are you limiting the number of projects per month to 10 with each having a maximum of 10 minutes? So, with 10$ in a month I can create a maximum of 10 videos where each cannot have more than 10 minutes? In the following month can I create another new 10 videos? Do I fully own the copyrights of the generated videos? To publish them anywhere?

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

#15

We are eager to announce to the HN community the public release of "WowTo" - software for creating How-To videos. Pain point: Creating How-To videos which can be tutorials, guides, step-by-step walkthroughs or video slideshows are difficult to create with current video editors in the market. Because they target a wide base so either they lack certain much needed features for creating How-tos or becomes complex to edi…

I really like the idea, but watching some demos at the bottom of the page, I did not like the generated voices. They are unpleasant to hear, and I constantly compare them to crappy YouTube tutorial that have similar TTS voices.

I completely agree with this. My immediate advice because this tool is definitely more likely to be used by more people who aren't programmers, focus on quality. These types of users will have a higher bar for quality in this specific aspect. But also right now the quality of the TTS voices is too low in general imo.

Less technical users get more frustrated when their tooling can't produce things that meet their expectations. And moreso in my experience because they don't have the skillset in order to modify their tooling so it can meet their expectations.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

#17

We are eager to announce to the HN community the public release of "WowTo" - software for creating How-To videos. Pain point: Creating How-To videos which can be tutorials, guides, step-by-step walkthroughs or video slideshows are difficult to create with current video editors in the market. Because they target a wide base so either they lack certain much needed features for creating How-tos or becomes complex to edi…

I really like the idea, but watching some demos at the bottom of the page, I did not like the generated voices. They are unpleasant to hear, and I constantly compare them to crappy YouTube tutorial that have similar TTS voices.

Came here to day the same thing. Those voices are an absolute blight and an immediate turn off.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

#18
post #9

Do you have sample outputs? Hard to tell what I can expect from the product.

Many samples are listed in the bottom section of the homepage in tabs. You can also refer to samples based on use case (Support, Education...) in the website.

There are a lot of samples but they are hard to find. Took me a bit as well. I would say just move them at least to right below the fold.

The "Use WowTo in" part with the tabs should be right below the "Easily create HowTo videos with WowTo" header IMO

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

#19

We are eager to announce to the HN community the public release of "WowTo" - software for creating How-To videos. Pain point: Creating How-To videos which can be tutorials, guides, step-by-step walkthroughs or video slideshows are difficult to create with current video editors in the market. Because they target a wide base so either they lack certain much needed features for creating How-tos or becomes complex to edi…

I really like the idea, but watching some demos at the bottom of the page, I did not like the generated voices. They are unpleasant to hear, and I constantly compare them to crappy YouTube tutorial that have similar TTS voices.

I got it, I am sure it cannot be compared with human professional artist. However AI is improving and definitely it keeps getting better. And with WowTo you have many advantages: 1. If you do not like the tone of a speaker, there are several voices to choose from and also dialects 2. And you can instantly connect with a global audience with its multi-lingual capability. 3. Reduce your voice-over costs significantly for using with videos that does not focus on voice modulation but rather conveying the information.

Re: Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI

#20

Thank you! It looks great! Just to understand the plans, p. example in "Plus" are you limiting the number of projects per month to 10 with each having a maximum of 10 minutes? So, with 10$ in a month I can create a maximum of 10 videos where each cannot have more than 10 minutes? In the following month can I create another new 10 videos? Do I fully own the copyrights of the generated videos? To publish them anywhere?

First of all you own all rights to the video you create.

Regarding pricing, the pricing is based on the total number of HowTo projects in your account. The pricing is flexible , You can always upgrade or downgrade the project count. Hope that clarifies.

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