Most of the tools produce good-to-great videos, but only for 5 seconds.

It takes a lot of those to make an hour-long video.

In the end, I surrendered to the reality that even the best are limited to 30 minutes.

With those, you get to make two videos a month.

Well, you could pay them a bucket load of cash to make twice as many, so no.

The other issue is to make a reasonably good voice-over using a text-to-speech tool.

Very few do Australian accents well, some don’t even offer it as an option, and others have very limited voice choices.

There is a very useful tool available on Amazon called Polly.

I have an app called Pollyzon, which makes it easier to modify the script, using SSML, without having to know all the code to make it work.
I can pick any of the voices and make them Australian, so there are plenty to choose from.

I’ve just completed a 54-minute dialogue with seven people.

It’s not perfect, but it is pretty good, and I can tweak it a bit more.

For the video, I’ll create it using Camtasia or CapCut and upload it tomorrow.

Once I have this all sorted out, the workflow for a 60-minute video should only take me about two hours, which is remarkably fast, considering it goes from idea to posted.

I know people who spend longer than that on an email or blog post.

What do you use for video creation?

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. Nearly forgot.

I discovered today that ChatGPT has a really good text-to-voice feature built in.

In the small menu at the end of the response to your prompt, there is a speaker symbol.

Click that and it will read what it wrote.

Any tool that can record your screen can do so and save the recording as an audio file.

The only downside is that you’re limited in which voices you can use.