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Text to Podcast Extension by Podcastle — Convert news/articles to a podcast using machine learning
We all lose countless hours staring at our screens and scrolling through endless text streams. Using Podcastle, you can instantly turn your favorite news, articles, and blog posts into podcasts with very natural human speech using machine learning.
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@peteskomoroch Thanks for the comment, unfortunately we have only the extension for now
Just left some feedback via the app. I think this has TONS of promise and looking forward to the updates. Very very excited for you and your team @arto_yeritsyan
So it's not a "Podcast" at all. It's text to speech. It's a decent text to speech, but "to a podcast" is misleading because it literally doesn't make a podcast for you as far as I can tell.
I love the idea. I’ve been using the text-speech on my iPhone for years. After you enable text to speech in accessibility, then when I want something read hit select all and hit speak. It is using the selected voice, not bad, but not human, so it’l be nice to try with a better voice. I’m not a slow reader, but it turns out I can listen much faster especially if I turn the speed up. I’m hoping your speed option is coming soon. I’ll definitely give it a try and give feedback when I get back to my computer!
@craigmacfarlane Thanks for the feedback, we are constantly working on it to improve the voice.
Congratulations on the launch. Extremely excited about this product.
Questions:
1) Any plans on using your technology for people to create their own podcasts.
Basically Podcaster “place” articles like a playlist a people can follow/download?
2) any plans on creating a short podcast management tool where podcasters can add their personal podcast introduction as an introduction to the “playlist”.
3) Long term: any plan to used your incredible technology to make a personal machine learning. So basically your read out the articles with the podcaster voice.
@benhouri Thanks for the questions. We are working 24/7 to have all the points mentioned by you, we have that in our roadmap, and soon it will be Live for all our fantastic users.
@arto_yeritsyan there are definitely some situations when one is busy with smth and can't read, but still can absorb any information while listening. from my own experience - when I am making breakfast I can listen but it's not comfortable to read. in similar situations podcasle is very very useful for me.
I went through an amazing experience while using it. Very impressed!!
Wonderful extension and great idea!
Ok, so I’m a new mom, who still needs to learn while taking care of the baby. Using Podcastle helps to manage both without any hustle. ♥️
@lilit_pietra Thanks! and congrats :) This is the most awesome comment that we could get
Hey Product Hunt community, I'm Arto, the Founder of Podcastle AI. Thank you @chrismessina for hunting us - today is an exciting day for us! I'm happy to present to you Podcastle AI - text to podcast converter based on Machine Learning.
It's a free browser extension, and all you have to do is – install it, signup, and then go to your favorite news website. Open any article/news and tap on Podcastle's extension icon, and it will turn the article into a podcast in a flash.
Our text-to-podcast converter based on machine learning is our unique offering. The podcasts we generate are very human-like and consider all the emotions and the writer's tone of voice. It's especially great for those working remotely.
While we focus on our work or household chores, like washing dishes and making coffee, Podcastle turns news into podcasts to help them know what's happening in the world without reading a newspaper.
We will be looking forward to your feedback and questions in the comments about Podcastle AI.
You can try it for free: https://chrome.google.com/websto...
@chrismessina @arto_yeritsyan Can you guys make it work on Google docs and pdf files (opened in chrome) as well? It will add great value to many people, I think.
@chrismessina @arto_yeritsyan You should note somewhere that you can't use it on mobile... kind of the whole point of podcasts.
@mike_seekwell Thanks for the feedback. It was hunted as a chrome extension, anyway we are going to have mobile soon as well.
Thank you all for your positive and constructive feedback! I don't have enough words to say how important it is to make our users happy. As promised, we covered some of the requests in our version 0.2.2, which is already live. This version contains:
- Ability to download the converted podcast
- Ability to share the converted podcast
- Queue/Playlist functionality
- Ability to embed our player on your blogs/websites etc
- Spanish Language
Really cool product. I use this daily. Would be good to be able to download the audio.
@khachik_sahakyan Thanks for the feedback! Download will be available with our next release!
Very interesting product. I am keeping an eye on similar products, and I can say this one works very well. It is also fully compatible with out writing/reading platform, will recommend it to our users.
I so much prefer audio to reading and this such an awesome solution! I was thinking about it and even wanted to build one for myself :) Good luck!
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