Unreal Speech - Better and 8x cheaper text-to-speech than AWS | Product Hunt

Better and 8x cheaper text-to-speech than AWSHello everyone,

This is Eric, the founder of Unreal Speech. Previously, I worked on Audioread (fka Audiblogs) which won #1 Product of the Day, Week, and Month and Golden Kitty 2021. While working on it, I found a huge problem.

Hundreds of millions of people with reading difficulties rely on text-to-speech to read. Unfortunately, many are left with free but extremely low-quality text-to-speech. (e.g. On Mac, try highlighting any text, right-click, hit “Speech,” and “Start Speaking.”) 🥲

Higher-quality engines are practically monopolized by big tech companies who all magically agreed on the exact same exorbitant price point and use their massive resources to prevent competition. 😠

We are solving the 2 biggest challenges preventing the mass adoption of AI-based text-to-speech: 1) Too Expensive: ✅ solved 2) Too Robotic: ☑️ 80% solved (for non-fiction) We plan to 10x the dataset in the next 6 months. Not only will robotic voices be no longer a problem, you might even think it's a professional narrator.

In the shorter term, we want to focus on helping TTS-enabled businesses succeed: read aloud apps (e.g. Pocket, Speechify, etc), UGC platforms (e.g. Medium, SubStack, etc), publications (e.g. Bloomberg, NY Times, etc), and e-learning platforms (e.g. Duolingo, Pearson, etc). We’re also interested in providing discounts to non-profits (e.g. Wikipedia, etc). 🤝

In the longer term, we want to make reading as easy as putting in your earbuds, for everyone, not just for those who have trouble reading. We believe that listening will be the new reading. And we’ll make reading as effortless as being a child whose parents read aloud to them. 💯

What Audible did to 0.2% of printed books, we are doing to the entire human and AI-generated corpus. Support us and help us fight back against the monopoly, provide an ultra-affordable, high-quality solution, and improve the lives of billions of people! 🙌

We would love to hear your feedback/questions/comments!

Thanks, Eric