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> enable people to listen to any article on the Internet > ... all read by humans This is great, but also sounds kinda pricey and hard to scale? What is the b

> enable people to listen to any article on the Internet > ... all read by humans This is great, but also sounds kinda pricey and hard to scale? What is the business model behind this?

hartator 7y ago
> This is great, but also sounds kinda pricey and hard to scale? What is the business model behind this? Wonder when AI will be smart enough to sounds completely natural. I've listened to a generated audio from an AI that was almost there. Trying to have the right intonations and everything.
- radumazilu 7y ago
  We do think it’s getting closer, but the very best text-to-speech, although good, is still not enjoyable to listen to for more than 10 minutes.
cristinabunea 7y ago
Thanks for the interest. Right now, the AI request lets people listen to content from most links available online. Once we see there's demand for a particular article or domain, we create the human-read version of it too. In terms scalability, we've discovered there are a lot of people with really good voices who are interested in creating a portfolio of voice-over work. We made it very easy for them to generate and upload the audio of the articles every day, through a narrator platform. The business model will be based on a freemium subscription, with the paid version introducing premium features.
- paulgb 7y ago
  How (if at all) are the authors and publications involved in the process?
  - marianicolae 7y ago
    A lot of times we actually have authors narrating their own content. We've created a platform where any writer can come and request his articles to be turned into audio. This can then be added as an embedded player at the top of their posts (https://www.listle.io/writers https://www.listle.io/writers). These articles get sent to our narrators who record them. They're then forwarded to the authors as a code snippet which they copy / paste on their stories.

> enable people to listen to any article on the Internet > ... all read by humans This is great, but also sounds kinda pricey and hard to scale? What is the business model behind this?

hartator 7y ago

> This is great, but also sounds kinda pricey and hard to scale? What is the business model behind this? Wonder when AI will be smart enough to sounds completely natural. I've listened to a generated audio from an AI that was almost there. Trying to have the right intonations and everything.

radumazilu 7y ago
We do think it’s getting closer, but the very best text-to-speech, although good, is still not enjoyable to listen to for more than 10 minutes.

cristinabunea 7y ago

Thanks for the interest. Right now, the AI request lets people listen to content from most links available online. Once we see there's demand for a particular article or domain, we create the human-read version of it too. In terms scalability, we've discovered there are a lot of people with really good voices who are interested in creating a portfolio of voice-over work. We made it very easy for them to generate and upload the audio of the articles every day, through a narrator platform. The business model will be based on a freemium subscription, with the paid version introducing premium features.

paulgb 7y ago
How (if at all) are the authors and publications involved in the process?
- marianicolae 7y ago
  A lot of times we actually have authors narrating their own content. We've created a platform where any writer can come and request his articles to be turned into audio. This can then be added as an embedded player at the top of their posts (https://www.listle.io/writers https://www.listle.io/writers). These articles get sent to our narrators who record them. They're then forwarded to the authors as a code snippet which they copy / paste on their stories.