Opal13241Q: I'm interested in ODIO.
AI because I need a text-to-speech AI tool that can read to me documents that my professor assigns for students to read each week. It helps me to pay attention to the words better if I can listen to them as I'm reading them. So, I wanted to ask if this AI tool could be helpful to me.
1. "Plan B" says that you allow 75,000 characters per clip. However, I read in the comments that we can only insert clips up to 2000 characters at a time. This would be very time-consuming for me, since I'd have to separate my document into many parts. A typical class document for me might contain around 10,600 words, or 65,000 characters. Do you have any plans to support larger blocks of text at a time, so that we won't have to manually separate our text into multiple parts?
2. Also, does this tool support reading text from documents, instead of us having to paste the text directly? For example, can it read text from PDFs, Doc, Docx files, etc. If not, is this a planned feature?
Thank you
Kane36573
May 14, 2024A: Hello Opal13241,
2000 characters limit is only for each text blocks, not for audio generation. You can add multiple text blocks.
We don't have feature to read or upload document. You need to paste your text.
Currently we don't have plan to develop document reading feature.
Yes, the text block character limit is exactly what I was referring to. If I have a 65,000 character document, it would be extremely tedious for me to paste that text 2000 characters at a time.
Also, thank you for letting me know that a document reading feature is not on the roadmap for this tool. I guess this tool is meant mostly for creating voiceovers for videos, but not so much for creating study materials. I hoped to find a text-to-speech tool that uses AI to read digital documents for me, since AI voices tend to sound a lot more natural and easier to understand than typical text-to-speech readers that don't use AI. In my classes, the readings are usually PDFs of textbooks, but I haven't been able to find any tool that understands how to read columns in a textbook. So, I was hoping that there would be an AI text-to-speech tool that is capable of understanding books which contain columns, is able to distinguish between different sections of a textbook page, and that can recognize punctuation such as commas, question marks, quotation marks, colons, lists, titles, subtitles, etc.
Thank you for answering my questions. This tool might not work for my specific purpose, but I'm sure it probably does great with text to voice generation for voiceovers.
This is an incredible inconvenience that renders the character limit inconsequential. You can’t possibly expect people to carve up text when you can easily do it automatically with a few lines of code. Why would you cripple the service so badly?