Narakeet

Narakeet is a text to speech video maker, an online service that helps people make narrated videos easily. It was created for a global audience and supports 100 languages and 800 voices. In brief, it uses artificial intelligence to create life-like narration from speaker notes in a presentation, or from markdown scripts. Users can edit video as simply as they would edit text, saving hours by not having to record and re-record audio, synchronise picture with sound and transcribe subtitles.

The Narakeet project came out of Gojko Adzic’s participation in 2018 Startup School.
A while ago, I wanted to make a video tutorial for an opensource tool. Coming up with the content was easy and fun. The rest of the experience was horribly frustrating. Aligning picture with sound felt like a huge waste of time. Recording narration was even worse. It took me seven attempts to do a single paragraph without mistakes. It still sounded bad, so I gave up and paid a professional voice artist.