Different but related idea, this creates a personal podcast feed: https://reca.st
Also https://audioread.com/. I love that you can forward emails to audioread and they'll be transcribed into podcasts. Thank you AI-voiced Matt Levine!
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
#32This is a welcome tool indeed. Question: how would you describe how you're different to Descript?
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 think that this is not a direction that Descript would be heading to, as they have built a successful business as a "podcast editing" platform and catering to "podcast creation" would be a significant change.
In addition to this, given that we are a "podcast creation" platform rather a "podcast editing" platform, we have focused on integrating functionality that allows users to go end to end in creating a podcasts. Examples: publishing a podcast (RSS), generating a video automatically, providing a shareable podcast page, autotranslating the podcast to other languages and a lot more.
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#33Different but related idea, this creates a personal podcast feed: https://reca.st
Also https://audioread.com/ . I love that you can forward emails to audioread and they'll be transcribed into podcasts. Thank you AI-voiced Matt Levine!
Thanks for sharing those. We're currently testing out the release of personalised podcasts, as the combination of LLMs and the realistic text-to-speech can lead to a solution of a quality level that has not been available until now.
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#34This is both brilliant and scary- I anticipate that the amount of web-scraped stuff about to land on Spotify's podcasts tab is going to be insane.
We're lowering the barrier to create a podcast so that might happen to an extent, but on the flip side, valued written content that has been confined in text format can now find its way to audio format. Paul Graham essays is a good example: https://app.wondercraft.ai/p/myqXnyUD
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#35This is a great product: I've listened to the HN podcast and it's great.
> podcast consumption is experiencing exponential growth
I find this so interesting! I know my personal podcast consumption has fallen off a cliff since the pandemic started. I pretty much only listen to podcasts when I commute, and I stopped commuting then. I assumed that everyone did that but I guess I was wrong.
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#36This is pretty awesome. Are any languages other than English supported?
Yes - this is full list. English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, French, Polish, Hindi, Korean,, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, Russian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Filipino, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech, Finish, Romanian, Danish, Bulgarian, Malay, Hungarian, Norwegian, Slovak, Croatian, Tamil
I don't see all those languages in the dropdown. Do I need a paid account?
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#37This is a great product: I've listened to the HN podcast and it's great. > podcast consumption is experiencing exponential growth I find this so interesting! I know my personal podcast consumption has fallen off a cliff since the pandemic started. I pretty much only listen to podcasts when I commute, and I stopped commuting then. I assumed that everyone did that but I guess I was wrong.
Yeah it's a valid point, podcast consumption is definitely synonymous to commute.
I'd say these are some reasons for continued increase: - Commute has not fallen as much as we might think - More quality content is becoming available, bringing in more audience - Natural expansion from people enjoying the experience and sharing +++
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#38This looks like a really cool idea. A question though: who holds the rights to the created audio? The user, or Wondercraft?
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#39This looks like a really cool idea. A question though: who holds the rights to the created audio? The user, or Wondercraft?
The user holds all rights. Feel free to read
Terms of Service: https://wondercraft-ai.notion.site/Terms-of-Service-fbfc043c...
Privacy Policy: https://wondercraft-ai.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-f35636350f...
Re: Launch HN: Wondercraft (YC S22) – Use text-to-speech to create podcasts easily
#40This looks like a really cool idea. A question though: who holds the rights to the created audio? The user, or Wondercraft?
The user holds all rights. Feel free to read Terms of Service: https://wondercraft-ai.notion.site/Terms-of-Service-fbfc043c... Privacy Policy: https://wondercraft-ai.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-f35636350f...
Awesome, just the answer I was hoping for!