Comment Your site or document you want to hear.(self.Blind)
submitted by crimsonsoccer55210
Working on an automated text to speech service. Your feedback would be wonderful. :)
fastfinge3 points6y ago
$1 works just fine for me. I can't think of a time I'd want to request someone read something online for me, unless it was text in an image I guess. And then I'd just rather it be transcribed.
crimsonsoccer55210 [OP]2 points6y ago
Thanks for replying fastfinge. Looking at NVDA makes me feel misguided in posting this here. The service is intended as more human-like reading for on-the-go web pages. Sorry for the lack of thought.
fastfinge2 points6y ago
No problem. A few services have tried this concept (and some of them even employed blind people as the human readers), but none of them took off. Reading outloud is rather difficult; it generally takes 3 minutes of time to record every 1 minute of audio, because of things like editing and correcting mistakes and so on. People who can quickly, reliably, read text aloud tend to get well paid jobs as audiobook narrators for companies like Audible.com. So most "web page reading" services generally go out of business, because people aren't willing to pay the actual cost to have a quality reading. And a text to speech reading is almost always better than a poor quality human reading. The most notable example of a service that went under is Umano. It had several hundred thousand users, paying monthly.
I'm sorry for coming off so negative, and I wish you all the best of luck! But I hope you've done your research into previous businesses like the one you're trying to launch, and have come up with new ways of avoiding the pitfalls.
crimsonsoccer55210 [OP]1 points6y ago
oh sorry there seems to be a miscommunication. It's automated. Attached is a link of the generated audio of your comment. :)
https://clyp.it/i132ndjs
fastfinge1 points6y ago
Ah, OK. My bad. I'm assuming you're using IBM Watson or similar? Voice isn't bad. Not something I'd pay for personally, but a lot of people who don't know how to use a screen reader, and/or don't want to learn, might.
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