BATCATQ: AI voices Azure, OpenAI, ElevenLabs...
Hi vidBoard,
The solution is very impressive! I know vidBoard's been around for awhile. In fact, I have the original vidBoard deal from August 2023
I just have one question that I'd like to ask before upgrading. There's been a few tools on AppSumo that rely on cloud AI voices which shutdown. UTTRR/Blakify is the one that comes to mind off hand. Their statement was along the lines it was too costly for LTD to support the cloud usage.
Is the incredibly generous amount number of videos based on 800 characters an issue in the future for vidBoard to support all the LTD'ers? I understand its a cloud limitation. Is this feasible long term? I'd rather see the ability for us to add our own cloud token than see it go away like UTTRR/Blakify did...
If everyone started generating 1500 videos monthly, this seems it could not sustain. thank you
Ashwin_vidBoard
May 28, 2025A: Hi
We will also be adding BYOK in the future and you can use your own tokens to AI voices. As regards increase in the characters. As and when our tech improves, we will continue to offer affordable options. We are a profitable entity unlike other entities out there
Thank you for your kind words regarding vidBoard. We know we are good. Slightly rough of the edges, not perfect but good. Hey who isn't perfect - be it man, woman or child or for that matter even a SaaS tool ;))
LTD users get A front row seat but alas we cannot give every thing for free. It will be doomsday if we start doing that. Other startups did it and failed. We haven't failed. Reason ??
vidBoard has been thought out thoroughly since December 2020. We are serial bootstrapped entrepreneurs having been in the online space for more than 13 years. We have optimized vidBoard and hence we can offer certain limits like Azure voices being 800 characters per slide and now very soon even elevenlabs at 800 chars per slide.
But certain updates cannot be given for Free. Updates which are not AI compute driven can be offered for free and which have been done for all users unannounced. But AI updates such as Voice Cloning can't be offered for free. It just doesn't make business sense.