Hey Product Hunt community, I'm Arto, the Founder of Podcastle AI. Thank you @chrismessina for hunting us - today is an exciting day for us! I'm happy to present to you Podcastle AI - text to podcast converter based on Machine Learning. It's a free browser extension, and all you have to do is – install it, signup, and then go to your favorite news website. Open any article/news and tap on Podcastle's extension icon, and it will turn the article into a podcast in a flash. Our text-to-podcast converter based on machine learning is our unique offering. The podcasts we generate are very human-like and consider all the emotions and the writer's tone of voice. It's especially great for those working remotely. While we focus on our work or household chores, like washing dishes and making coffee, Podcastle turns news into podcasts to help them know what's happening in the world without reading a newspaper. We will be looking forward to your feedback and questions in the comments about Podcastle AI. You can try it for free: https://chrome.google.com/websto...

This is one of the most useful tools for starting my day. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. One feature request is to be able to add multiple items into a queue. Is that going to be added anytime soon? Awesome implementation! Congrats to you all!

Giving me Umano vibes. cc @ianmendiola

Do you have a demo we can try without installing the browser extension?

This is great! I just installed the Chrome Extension and tried with a random article from NYTimes. The voice is really natural and very easy to follow. Great product! One question. Is there a limit on how much text it can read?

Congratulations on the launch. Extremely excited about this product. Questions: 1) Any plans on using your technology for people to create their own podcasts. Basically Podcaster “place” articles like a playlist a people can follow/download? 2) any plans on creating a short podcast management tool where podcasters can add their personal podcast introduction as an introduction to the “playlist”. 3) Long term: any plan to used your incredible technology to make a personal machine learning. So basically your read out the articles with the podcaster voice.

The idea is really great and works actually ! Still need improvements (honestly I couldn't listen an entire podcast with the voice of my GPS + some problems to recognize h1, h2, h3 ...) : Anyway I will follow with attention your future developpment. Bonus : It's hilarious in french (and german) - it's like having a authentic robotic-UK lord at home 💂🏻‍♀️❤️

I was so curious about this that I downloaded Chrome just to try it! What I like about this, is that your extension will grant accessibility to people with reading issues! Love that! Hopefully on Firefox, too someday?

@arto_yeritsyan the text to speach works really cool. i don't read in the evenings to avaoid screen time, but podcastle is the very perfect solution for me in this usecase - i just put on my earphones, connect them with bluetuth to my pc and just listen

Does it work for other languages ?

Any ability to download these recordings once converted Arto?

Wow, l'm impressed. I was using "text to speech" web tools before,but it takes too much effort to copy and paste the text into those platforms, and the the quality of the audio is usually extremely poor. Podcastle extension is right the opposite, and so seamless to use! I would even be willing to pay for this! Two questions 1. Seems like the tool doesn't work with Google docs, are you planning to build the integration in the future? 2. Do you consider adding more sound speed options? like 1.75x, 2x. That would be very handy

I use Duck Duck Go, seems it can only read "do not sell my data..." 😹 after I installed the extension. Anyways, great idea though!

Loved it.

I'm an audiobook fan! and this product is exactly for me! Very cool idea🖤

What an amazing idea! As much as I enjoy reading the news, sometimes life gets busy and I think this will be the solution. Will try for sure :)

The Concept is great! The UX and the UI are great but That for sure not a human voice. I am reading my articles in medium or using Pocket to save my articles and they both have a text to speech feature that sounds robotic. I would love to use your product if you manage to change the Robotic sound to a real human voice =)

Amazing, thank you for creating! I am excited to see this space, I can see bloggers having all blogs with a podcast button. When is the app coming out?

I love the idea. I’ve been using the text-speech on my iPhone for years. After you enable text to speech in accessibility, then when I want something read hit select all and hit speak. It is using the selected voice, not bad, but not human, so it’l be nice to try with a better voice. I’m not a slow reader, but it turns out I can listen much faster especially if I turn the speed up. I’m hoping your speed option is coming soon. I’ll definitely give it a try and give feedback when I get back to my computer!

Will you ever add a feature to download the podcasts you create?