Text To Speech - Blog Posts

Consent has always been for purchase and that's not a bad thing.

I did not scrub toilets out of the goodness of my heart. My consent to do so was for sale, we agreed on a price and then I did it.

I did not deliver newspapers out of the goodness of my heart. My consent to do so was for sale, we agreed on a price and then he fucked me around so I quit.

This applies to all work. You have skills, consent to use those skills for someone else depends on them paying you.

So I was playing around with the idea of a TTS reader, ya know maybe hearing my work read aloud will help inspire me to continue this fic, get immersed in it. Obviously I'm worried about AI and copyright and outside sources seeing my work, but I dived down the rabbit hole of these TTS readers and how they charge people.

Rant incoming of course

Like you would think, "TTS is a handy thing to help with disabilities, a little convenience in life, it should be free or at least cheap, like subtitles. Maybe they're not always perfect but they do help! If you want something better than the basic bot, then you pay, but like how much can it ACTUALLY be - there are words everywhere!"

They charge by the CHARACTER not by the word, first of all, which is absurd, but fine whatever. For context, a 4k chapter of mine is upwards of 20k characters, and about 100 pages of writing in my docs is around 300k characters, but at least I can have that comparison at my fingertips.

Most "free" character limits are 3k. Not 3k words, 3k CHARACTERS. One place had 3k characters of Premium and 3k of non-premium, so it's technically 6k characters a day for their free version, but that's the best I could find skimming the fine print of a bunch of these things.

The paid plans though, hoo boy let's do some math! They preach "unlimited" for the non-premium voices, your basic bots that may be grating on the ear but they get the job done? But the premiums still have limits, of course.

200k characters a day and 1 million characters a month was one of the plans. So around 40k words a day up to 50 of my 4k chapters a month, and closer to 20 of my normal 10k+ word chapters (not including when I re-read a single chapter multiple times for editing or my own amusement). That's 200k words, not including repeats. For $11 a month or the yearly $48. I've seen $150 for 1M a month on one, feel free to tell me if you've seen worse

Up a tier is 500k a day and 2.5M a month. 25 4k word chapters a day, up to 125 a month; 8 or so 10k+ word chapters a day, closer to 40 a month. For $21 a month or $120-$180 yearly (depending on which reader you find).

If you have ever seen my chapters before, you'll see how inconvenient this is, having a daily limit of being able to listen to up to 8 chapters, not even including when I just want to reread them for my own amusement - although I suppose you could record and download them for infinite use, but what if I rewrite, add, or fix errors or entire paragraphs? Then I have to make a whole new one.

There was one version toying with the idea of a pay-as-you-go feature, ya know, basically virtual TTS currency, 200k characters for $10, 1M characters for $40, use them as you please, your time limit to use them is 1 year but every renewal no matter how tiny also renews the end date for when they expire, so a little better for my ADD ass who who'll write like 3M characters in 3 months and then go radio silent for another 6 months.

Anyway so long story short I feel better about myself, seeing I'm way too powerful for TTS to keep up with, but also sad because even if I'm willing to shill out for a voice that doesn't sound robotic AF on my work, I'm still too powerful. I, American English as I am, prefer the non-premium British voices, they somehow sound a little less bot-like but idk.

It's all AI anyway, I should just pay a voice actor to read my stuff every time I write, it'd probably be more environmentally friendly and cost-effective.

So if you made it this far for some reason tell me how many characters you wrote today so you have a bigger number than your word count, I'm up to 25k on this chapter I'm not even done with

I wrote my own South Park FanFic! Please read it and tell me what y’all think!<3 If you like it please consider sharing it with friends. ^v^

The Jew-hating Fat ass has a Jewish Cousin - The New JEW Kid (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1499892855-the-jew-hating-fat-ass-has-a-jewish-cousin-the-new?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=GreenSUSOvO There has been a lot of chatter about new kid coming to town. They say it's a girl and she's Jewish, that means that Kyle, a ginger, wouldn't be the only Jewish kid in the whole town anymore. But nobody knew was that Eric Cartman, the fat antisemite, was actually her 14th cousin once removed and were actually really close friends. DISCLAIMER: I do not own South Park or any of the rights to it or its characters. those credits go to Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Slight alt version of "My Life in the Rocky Mountains" the other South Park fanfiction that I've been writing. Please read that one when you have a chance. This one just gives a slightly different perspective. This is basically a "What if I was in South Park" au. Also uses "South Park: Stick of Truth" map. Trigger warning may include: foul language, death, smoking, and use of alcohol. If you feel uncomfortable with any of these topics please don't read if you feel is best for you. Please be kind and any rude and or insensitive comments will have the person reported. So if you have something not as nice, it better be constructive. (I'm fed up and pissed off with people going on to a piece of content that they knew they wouldn't like, just to rip on it and make people feel bad)