There are too many books that I would want to listen to and don't have audiobooks. i'd definitely give it a try with that in mind
Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
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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!
Lmao blatant astroturfing how did the OP even get more than 10 votes?? Must have vote botted too to get to front page today
They're part of YC S22, so it's fiiiine. What use is a platform, if you can't promote the companies you invest in.
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#103congrats on launching! i've been a vocal fan for a little bit: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1661848597728575489
however when i tried signing up for your pod to make my own, i was disappointed that it would only take manually entered content. i want to hook it up to my twitter or rss or discord feed, and have you Do The Thing. please!
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#1041hr and 5hr is not long enough
You can try https://pod-genie.com which is slightly cheaper but I must admin the voices aren't as good. Great work Wondercraft team! Full disclosure - I built pod-genie.
feedback - you put up the paywall too early. let me epxlore the platform a bit before deciding whether or not to pay. i paid for the $5 plan just to explore bc i'm intensely interested in this space but most people would be put off bc your landing page does not do a good job of saying what exactly it is you do and how it works
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#105congrats on launching! i've been a vocal fan for a little bit: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1661848597728575489 however when i tried signing up for your pod to make my own, i was disappointed that it would only take manually entered content. i want to hook it up to my twitter or rss or discord feed, and have you Do The Thing. please!
Dming you on twitter, to find “The Thing”
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#106Your latest hn podcast post has a low level noise that makes it unlistenable to me. You should be able to use non ai tools to remove the background hiss/hum
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can try https://pod-genie.com which is slightly cheaper but I must admin the voices aren't as good. Great work Wondercraft team! Full disclosure - I built pod-genie.
feedback - you put up the paywall too early. let me epxlore the platform a bit before deciding whether or not to pay. i paid for the $5 plan just to explore bc i'm intensely interested in this space but most people would be put off bc your landing page does not do a good job of saying what exactly it is you do and how it works
and i just canceled bc the output isn't good, think you might be using gpt3.5 or something, give us a way to sample/tweak
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Did PG have to approve this? Or can you do it without his consent?
PG has not approved for this to be done with his own voice, which is why we're using a custom voice (Anna).
OPs question wasn't about using a custom trained voice. Did you receive approval to make a podcast from his written works at all?
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In relation to HN Recap, I agree that it struggles with terms, but I’d argue that the results show that the stories are captured well. I get your point on people liking authentic stories from people and that’s the value of podcasts. There’s many different formats of podcasts and interviews/conversations are just 20% of overall podcasts. I agree with you that for the time being those formats are best done person to pe…
In episode “August 10th, 2023 | Vim Boss”: 1. Vim Boss - the auto-generated description fails to mention the post author is a top Neovim contributor. It is hard to tell who Bram is just from the description. It also said “the deceased iconic software Vim” (Vim is not dead…) The music feels inappropriate. 2. The Future of the Vim Project - “In an exciting movement towards the next stage of Vim project’s evolution”? Wh…
Thank you for taking the time to go through this. I agree that there is room for improvement and your comment makes it clear what we can improve. But I disagree with the sentiment that it does not add value. There are 1k people that tune in daily to listen to this that would agree with me: https://op3.dev/show/f77aea62-97e5-5cce-92c6-9464e51c30c6
Definitely will add transcript. The HN Recap has been a side thing for us while we have been building the Podcast Creation platform, but we will do better.
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#110I personally wouldn’t use this. I don’t know if your point about information being “locked” in written form is even being addressed here. There are so many audio books out there but I personally only really enjoy audio books delivered by the author themselves or someone who can actually capture the nuances in the text. So I think you’ll just end up moving this information from being locked in prose to being locked in…
There is no question that authors delivering the work themselves is preferable. But that option is rarely available (only 20% of NYT Best Sellers have audio books read by the authors).
| "you’ll just end up moving this information from being locked in prose to being locked in sound"
I don't think that everyone shares this opinion. Your fellow YC Batchmates are very happy that Paul Graham's essays are now in audio format as an example. More than 1000 founders have subscribed to the feed.