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! - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

- I can charge based on number of words, or duration of converted audio, but I wanted to make it easier for my users, so I just charge base on number of article. And I also want to make it a peace of mind for users so I use one-off payment basis. Here are link to my product: https://sendtopod.com Would love to hear your thought on whether this is too expensive. And why do you think so? To put this on perspective:... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

I also see AudioRead.com do this but text to speech is IMHO not pleasant enough to listen to for a long time. Source: almost 2 years ago

Honestly, I'm super happy that you found one voice arguable better than AWS. I might argue, though, you might get used to our voices quickly once you start using it frequently. I've had this feedback before from someone who was very used to AWS's monotonous voice, and he actually changed his opinion after listening to a couple of articles. Previously, I built https://audioread.com which got me to talk to a bunch... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

There's dozens of tools out there for this these days. I'd recommend sonix.ai they give you 30 minutes free. Source: 12 months ago

Do you have a budget? If so, there's this tool I've worked with called Sonix that generates transcripts of what you feed into it. It's not super accurate, but it's good enough. One of the features is that you can "highlight" chunks of text, and have it spit out an XML that will have a sequence containing only the highlighted text. Source: over 1 year ago

Sonix was the one I used because it had 30 free minutes and the video was only 10-11 minutes long. It seems to have done a really decent job, but not sure if that's because the source audio is pretty clear. Source: over 1 year ago

Sonix.ai does many languages and is quite good. Source: over 1 year ago

I am struggling with this as well, but one good tool for me has been sonix.ai, which can transcribe pretty well (posted a little while ago about it). Source: about 2 years ago