I have trouble speaking, I don’t really like my voice and accent, so I decided to try using and see if it helps me to create a watchable video. Amazon Polly It ended up working surprisingly well. I have used to generate slides, and to automatically render them into images. Then I’ve edited them together using . The entire process of turning my article into a video took a couple of hours. reveal.js PhantomJS Kdenlive I think it turned out pretty cool and I figured I’d share it with you guys. It’s imperfect, but it’s really impressive how far text-to-speech engines have come. At this point it still probably makes more sense to spend $10-$20 on fiverr to create a professional voiceover, but I can totally see how in the near future it would be possible to automatically generate high quality videos. I think I’m onto something here, maybe I’ll make a SaaS tool out of this. Very cool stuff.
