If this is not a wake up call for me, I don't know what it should be.
I had this same exact idea for 9 months now but never moved to execute. Reading through site it even has the same wording as in my head.<p>As a developer I wanted to build something like this and it looks easy(without AI part). But following the startup gurus and podcasts I figured that idea should be validated first and to find actual customers is more important than building technology. Here started troubles. I have no skills in marketing and when diving deeper it looked cumbersome for me. I spend free credits on AdSense but it only brought 8 emails for empty newsletter.<p>I'm interested did you do the research on user base? What would be a market for this?<p>Where are you planning to grow the site? Do you have monetization plan?<p>p.s. found a link in comments for read2me.online, and just from demo they sound really good for ears
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Very interesting. I've been using Edge's built-in voice reading a lot more recently for the exact case you mention on your homepage: listening while working.
I have two questions for you after reading your TOS and Privacy Policy. I was expecting to see "you" scraping data from each site or otherwise monetizing the service, but nothing stood out.
Either your TOS/PP is incorrect, or you don't have an obvious income stream for the service you are rendering.<p>So the questions: Who are you? and How are you doing this for free?<p>Thank you,
There are some UI issues from what I noticed:<p>At small breakpoints, the UI (especially the "try it now" button) can overlap some text. Sizing also seems off.<p>Another issue I noticed is the play button itself, the entire circle area is clickable, however only the play/pause icon can actually be clicked.<p>There are also numerous accessibility issues. If you're going to advertise this as something to improve accessibility, it might be good to actually concentrate on that for your landing page.<p>I do hope the UI can be improved, as the product looks solid.
I'm not here to pitch the idea to make people like it, if you do not like it, be constructive on a given problem. To get a feeling more on how it feels on a blog here is an example: <a href="https://websitevoice.com/blog/text-to-speech-dyslexia-and-reading-disabilities/" rel="nofollow">https://websitevoice.com/blog/text-to-speech-dyslexia-and-re...</a><p>if the solution does not appeal to you, it surely appeals to others.
This looks -- and sounds! -- awesome. I'm not sure if this can compete with Schema's 'Speakable' [1] property (for smart speakers), but for mobile/web browsing this looks amazing.<p>Looking forward to seeing new developments and also the pricing plan eventually.<p>1: <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/speakable" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/speakab...</a>
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I added it to an old unused part of my website.<p><a href="https://www.folj.com/lateral-solutions/" rel="nofollow">https://www.folj.com/lateral-solutions/</a><p>Apparently my javascript doesn't play nicely with programmatically injected elements. The Show All Solutions button still works.
Just some hopefully constructive criticism, I found the voice used on the "Smart Natural Voice" section to be the most robotic sounding of them all. Specifically, the "Say goodbye to robotic voice, this is nothing like you ever heard before." line sounded very robotic and a bit awkward.<p>I'm not sure if maybe the content of the copy is a little clunky or if it's the voice itself, but that section sounded worse than the other ones, IMO. If possible, I would think about toying with that. The girl's voice in the "Voice Pitch and Speed Control" section sounded far more natural and impressive.
Do you have plans to publish a versioned release with support for Subresource Integrity?<p>Also, is there somewhere that the following is documented?<p>- Required origins for each type of content so that this can be compatible with a Content-Security-Policy<p>- Required use of browser features so that this can be made compatible with a Feature-Policy<p>- Commitments from yourself that the lists of required origins/features will not be added to without prior notice, in order to give time for blog operators to update their headers accordingly<p>Thanks
I’ve wondered for a while with NPR doesn’t have both audio and text of all of their programs.<p>Sometimes I can listen, but not read (driving). Sometimes, I can read but not listen (work, or just when I’m without headphones). I realize they want high quality voice, but if at the moment all they have is text that’s ok with me. Not having both of these often means I just skip that article and never come back to it
Amazon Polly [1] and Google Text to Speech [2] are unfortunately far superior.<p>[1] <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/polly/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/polly/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/</a>
Don't have time to test it now. How does it sound? Is it better than the robotic text to speech voice we all know? Wonder if you can run this offline so you can save the files when you build your static site and no scripts are required on the frontend.
Typo: "We use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to constantly improve our voice algorithms to make your website text-to-speech is as realistic as possible."
Constructive criticism , I could not find any samples of the audio on your site.<p>Recommendation, add the plugin to your own homepage for potential users to test it out before having to signup.