Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

embedding-shape

> Use the AI you already pay for I thought this would mean I could use my subscription, as OpenAI/Codex supports this kind of authentication flow, and it's very easy to integrate with that as a service, and users login with the OpenAI authentication flow, or via device codes. Instead this asks for an API key, which is very different from "Use your OpenAI subscription" and to be honest, I'm not sure how anyone who has a OpenAI subscription could mistake this for such. Has this even been tested once? Maybe I missed something obvious, I had a five second look and closed it when it seemed to be outright intentionally misleading.

xenocratus

I did something very similar to this, for myself, but which takes a web page for an article, cleans up the text to preserve the article only, and converts it using TTS, then adds it to a cloud bucket with an RSS stream, and I use that RSS link as a podcast in Apple Podcast.

x______________

Is "paste your OpenAI API key" the new form of "paste your credit card number with exp/code" for example, to check if its been compromised?

laylower

What prevents someone submitting an epub or a pdf and ask claude or another llm to narrate a novel in morgan freeman's voice?

jaccola

Looks cool but how on earth does your demo video not show a sample of the result?! It ends right before the exciting part. Madness!

matthorse

How well does it handle larger files? And other book formats, like epub or mobi? I'd love to see an actual result what it can do

brunorsini

Cool! Curious to hear a sample. As any regular audiobook listener knows, having a great narrator is really key.

ph4rsikal

Great work, op. I have also had good experiences with Qwen3-TTS. Might be worthwhile to explore for everyone who wants to do longform locally.

abel0x

how does it handle weird formatting in pdfs like tables or image captions? i always get trash output when doing pdf text extraction.

amaldavid

It was always harder to get it to sound right, I had built Lissin around this thesis itself. You can throw in a PDF or a link and can get a podcast, deepdive or just narration with different voices in Lissin. For those interested in better voices, you can try and let me know. https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6758897526?pt=12810...

exolab

You can build that with Claude in 2-3 hours. Not sure how this is a business idea.

hirako2000

This trend to sell subscription with a price for "credits". For a wrapper around costly LLM providers. For a result one could get with voicebox for free.

cj00

How well does it handle pronunciation, especially of things like proper nouns? This has been one of the harder parts I've found. On a financial web site I saw one example where the generated audio pronounced initiates as a noun instead of a verb. It's a subtle difference but can significantly change the meaning if worded wrong. I was trying to use TTS to regenerate some old audiobooks and getting names pronounced correctly is pretty hard unless the model supports something like SSML.

subless

I love using https://convert.to.it/ for all of my converting needs; everything is client-side in the browser with over 400 file extension options to choose from. Source: https://github.com/p2r3/convert

55555

Please share an example of a two-speaker podcast that it has generated, add support for spoken Thai, and I will pay & use it weekly.

butz

What about license of such output? Won't Google and OpenAI be coming to my door for their share from the sales of "my" audiobooks?

trencedamp

I don't know why you would do this when there are free open source solutions out there that do not use credits.

Kwpolska

If you're on a Mac, `say -f book.txt -o book.aiff`, no API keys required.

mandeepj

how do you handle diagrams or other visual descriptions from text?

GrayHerring

Can people please get their terminology right, why am I getting clickbaited.