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Translating a podcast into so many languages with two clicks increases our reach so much. Great stuff Wondercraft, keep it up
Ha, look into this "person's" account. Created a few months ago and has ONLY responded to Wondercraft. What a sleazy practice, but I guess we should expect a total lack of integrity from such a product. What fun times we live in!
People 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…
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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...
People 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…
Don't tell me what I like. I don't care whether something is "told by humans" or not. In fact, HN Recap is the only podcast I listen to.
Congrats 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.
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Descript is an excellent "podcast editing" tool, but is not a "podcast creation" / text-to-speech first platform. It offers "Overdub", but they suggest limited use of it (replacing 1-2 words), not full podcast creation. The quality of the text-to-speech model they use is not at the same level as the ElevenLabs model we are using, so I think someone would struggle to create an engaging podcast using Overdub. I'd also…
Thanks, makes sense! Have you thought about targeting Substack-based podcasts also? Given how substack podcasters likely wouldn't need the publishing part.
For substackers that already have a podcast, that’s a separate question. Ultimately it depends on if they think that they can use the time the put in for the recording and editing process to some other creative process and use Wondercraft for generating the audio. Haven’t seen that many existing Substack podcasts for this use case to become that prevalent.
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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.
Wrote some stuff here about comparison to Descript:
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=37089928&goto=item%3Fi...
Congrats 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.
11 is not our competitor, they are our partner and model provider. We’ve built all of the podcast related infrastructure (publishing, show notes, video etc) on top of their text to speech capabilities.
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The book would still be written by a human. This product seems like AI generated spam...
We highlight that the creativity comes from the human. The text to speech is the AI Component. There is a script assistant that can help you adjust the tone of the text, but the creativity always comes from human.