Hello, The TTS voice is fantastic. Any plan to make it available to developers on iOS, Android, Windows etc? The bundled TTS voices aren’t great on these platforms.
Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
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Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
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Actually, according to US law, it doesn't appear to be copyright infringement. Do you have anything to back up those claims? According to Butler v. Target Corp., it was held that although lyrics to a song are copyrightable, the underlying voice is not. As such, there is no copyright protection available to the infinite number of words or phrases a person might utter in their distinctive voice. Additionally, the synth…
Sorry what is exactly your claim here? That it is legal to use and monetise off of someone else's voice? Using Morgan Freeman's or Joe Rogan's voice for example to host your podcasts?
Yes. As long as you make no claims as to who's voice it is, that is.
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#83People like podcasts, because they are interesting stories told by humans. Good podcasts have a lot of creativity behind them. Your HN Recap podcast uses a bland voice that sometimes struggles with tech terms, and the auto-generated summaries often feature deep details and miss the intention of the story. Auto-generated content on YouTube is usually misleading spam, how will you prevent your auto-generated podcasts f…
Some people like those, some of the time. I too enjoy a good Conan or Hardcore History podcast but many other podcasts I listen to are basically audiobooks where, if the voice is good enough, I'll listen to them. History of Rome is a prime example, it's essentially a very long audiobook where the reading voice makes nearly no difference to me.
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, according to US law, it doesn't appear to be copyright infringement. Do you have anything to back up those claims? According to Butler v. Target Corp., it was held that although lyrics to a song are copyrightable, the underlying voice is not. As such, there is no copyright protection available to the infinite number of words or phrases a person might utter in their distinctive voice. Additionally, the synth…
Sorry what is exactly your claim here? That it is legal to use and monetise off of someone else's voice? Using Morgan Freeman's or Joe Rogan's voice for example to host your podcasts?
Voices are not protected by copyright.
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#85People like podcasts, because they are interesting stories told by humans. Good podcasts have a lot of creativity behind them. Your HN Recap podcast uses a bland voice that sometimes struggles with tech terms, and the auto-generated summaries often feature deep details and miss the intention of the story. Auto-generated content on YouTube is usually misleading spam, how will you prevent your auto-generated podcasts f…
Some people like those, some of the time. I too enjoy a good Conan or Hardcore History podcast but many other podcasts I listen to are basically audiobooks where, if the voice is good enough, I'll listen to them. History of Rome is a prime example, it's essentially a very long audiobook where the reading voice makes nearly no difference to me.
The book would still be written by a human. This product seems like AI generated spam...
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people like those, some of the time. I too enjoy a good Conan or Hardcore History podcast but many other podcasts I listen to are basically audiobooks where, if the voice is good enough, I'll listen to them. History of Rome is a prime example, it's essentially a very long audiobook where the reading voice makes nearly no difference to me.
The book would still be written by a human. This product seems like AI generated spam...
Hm, based on their site it looks like it's more of an editor where you type content that's then converted to speech, there's nothing in there that necessitates that the content be AI generated. Seems to me more of a competitor to https://www.descript.com/ than anything.
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#87It's amazing how good your service is. Not only the text to speech, but like even the emphasis it knows how to give on each word. Fantastic times, fantastic times indeed.
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry what is exactly your claim here? That it is legal to use and monetise off of someone else's voice? Using Morgan Freeman's or Joe Rogan's voice for example to host your podcasts?
Yes. As long as you make no claims as to who's voice it is, that is.
Their website seems to be plastered in claims that it "uses the original speaker's voice"
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#89It's amazing how good your service is. Not only the text to speech, but like even the emphasis it knows how to give on each word. Fantastic times, fantastic times indeed.
Thank you!
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#90Congrats on the launch! Looks like ElevenLabs is your direct competitor. How do you plan to differentiate? So far their pricing is a little better and they also provide the ability to create a custom voice model.