Text to Speach
I know this has been requested before but I think its worth reiterating. For authors its a very valuable too to hear their prose read back to them. We catch not only line edit errors but things that are not quite quantifiable in a document editor. I’v tried browser plugins and most are crap. either my api key dosent work or it cannot handshake with the service provider. So far my best option is Eleven Labs Reader app for my phone. It has the best most natural sounding narration I’ve found so far. But it is a bit of a hassle to go through the steps to copy, paste into a word doc and then load it into the reader app. The Ideal thing would be just to highlight text in sudowrite and have a little icon in the pop-up show a headphone icon. One can set up the voice in the settings. I’m sure you could work a deal with Elevenlabs to integrate their technology into sudowrite. Yes I know it would cost something but I think it would be worth it.
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Johnson Patty
Jul 12
I agree completely. Normally I write using word 365 and I always use the voice to edit the last draft, finding many things I hear but might not see. I also use the microphone to text because I have lost word 365 docs many times, but thankfully make paper copies. It is easier to read a 3o page doc into a draft and then sp check. HINT BACK UP EVERYTHING in Triplicate and that includes prompts you want saved. Also remember there can be a delay. You go into your program and do not see what you did hours earlier. Then you start redoing. this confuses word 365 and Sudo and it ends up confusing the author. YOu get 5 almost duplicate chapters. Make certain everything in sudo that you have written has accurate date and time stamp so it is easier to find your latest rewrite.
Aiden Slever
Jul 3
I am fairly new to Sudowrite but I agree that it shouldn’t be too difficult to API Eleven Labs into Sudowrite - even if it is optional for us to use and it consumes credits. I think it will assist in author read back for prose verification. I think the bigger picture would be the ability to create an audiobook from the novel text - this would be highly valuable - but it should be a high quality text-to-speech converter and the best is Eleven Labs. Don’t cut this corner unless you want to offer a choice to the author of a cheaper credit cost of basic text-to-speech along with a more costly, but highly polished, Eleven Labs output for a full audio book and/or MP3 files for app projects or marketing snippets.