• sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    Thanks for the feedback. I’m the author of the medium blog post too.

    If you have any tips on where to find a better free voice, I’m all ears. I haven’t tried chatterbox yet, that one might do it.

    It could also be that the “direct blog post to video” format doesn’t cut it. But I’m still experimenting with ways to generate effective multimedia out of my content.

    Btw, this is my open-source pipeline, which I use to make the video and blog post out of the same source file: https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/hacker-press

    Edit: Regarding “satire”, that doesn’t apply to this blog post in particular. But I did add some jokes here and there to keep the dry topic going.

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      It could also be that the “direct blog post to video” format doesn’t cut it.

      This specific format is strongly associated with low-effort content-farm channels that repackage other people’s posts from sites like Reddit and Medium.

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      I don’t think having a textual article auto-scrolled and voiced adds anything at all, and people who do want that can do it themselves, and have it set to their choice of accent, speed, etc.

      Video links tend to do worse than text links on Lemmy, so you’d probably have been better off all round just posting your original blog post.

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        Side benefit is that everyone who prefers reading text, can read text, and everyone who wants to hear a robot read it, can have their own robot do that.

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      Its not the voice thats the issue, to me any video that uses TTS is low quality and effort.

      I want to hear and see the speakers feelings about a subject they love to talk about.