#TOOLKIT 014 - Text to Video Convertors - AI-powered!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/toolkit-text-video-convertors-ai-powered-boni-aditya-exrvc/

Jul 29, 2021

November 10, 2023

From Recorded audio to Text to Speech and finally to Text to Video- JOBS TO BE DONE!

Back in 2015, I discovered audiobooks and I was at the mercy of recording studios and had to only listen to labels that were recorded by Simon and Schuster, but in 2018 I discovered TTS - Text to speech readers, for the first time. But the voices were robotic, I converted a lot of books into audio, even though they sounded robotic, I had the freedom to listen to any book I wanted and so I was able to hit the 300-book mark.

But there is only so much you can listen to!

You can't listen to a math book and learn math. You are restricted to specific domains that you can hear, like psychology, economics, behavioral sciences etc...

Then Came Speechify, I am using it now, speechify allows me to watch the book being read, it highlights the current sentence being read as it is read.

Speechify allows me to read all genres of books.

But JTBD, Jobs to be done, proves that my Job To Be Done - to acquire more knowledge is being met by one product after the other.

Story Telling - Make it easy to listen - the very first audiobook I listened to was Ramayan and Then Mahabharat - a master storyteller recited them to me when I was young.

Audiobooks - The very same job i.e. learning was done better than reading, was through audiobooks, but audiobooks had to be recorded in a recording studio and only very few books were ever converted into audiobooks.

Text-to-Speech Readers - The very same job i.e. reading books is done better by Text-to-speech readers, but the voices were robotic and there were no visual aids, you had to listen to the speech in robotic voices.

Speechify - Speechify is powered by AI/ML neural net voices, not only are the voices human-like, I can now see the book while the voices read the book. The problem of reading a book is now better solved and now I can listen to any book while it is being highlighted.

But the job is still not done! The job is to find the easiest way to absorb the content in a book and the best way to do that is through video.

Here is the order in which it i easy to consume content. The difficulty level is added against each content type.

[Ease of Consumption]

Video (1) > PPT (10) > GIF (100) > Picture (1000) > Audio (10000) > Text (1000000)

On the other hand, it is extremely costly to make a video. The difficulty of creating the content is inversely proportional.

[Difficulty of Creation]

Video (1000000) > PPT (10000) > GIF (1000) > Picture (100) > Audio (10) > Text (1)

Text to Video - In an ever-increasing attempt to make it easier to consume content, the last step is to convert the text directly into video. Often this is done manually in a studio, through video recording, which is an extremely costly affair.

To understand JOBS TO BE DONE BETTER -

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pm-lesson-24-jump-from-idea-driven-needs-innovation-boni-aditya

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pm-lesson-25-jtbd-meticulously-mapping-jobs-done-boni-aditya

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pm-lesson-26-use-jtbd-needs-framework-derive-all-desired-aditya

Now we have AI/ML solutions with stable diffusion models that can generate video from text directly NVIDIA and Adobe have already created tools that can convert text into video. If I can provide the text from a book and get video in real-time, that would almost completely solve the problem of reading a book and absorbing the content in it.

TEXT TO VIDEO TOOLS

There are many tools in the market that allow you to create text from video. Each tool takes its own path. One tool uses stock images to find the right image for the right text semantically and creates a PowerPoint video. While other tools use an AI-rendered reader to lip-sync and read out the paragraph for you. Yet other tools try to actually visualize the concept by actually trying to create a monkey riding on a horse. Whatever the approach taken by these text-to-video generators, one cannot be blind to the fact that essentially the way we consume video is about to change. The way video is generated is also about to change. Right now the cost is a bit premium but eventually, as the number of users increases this price will come down.

Here is a list of some of the better Text to text-to-video convertors I have used so far.

InVideo AI

https://invideo.io/ai/

Invideo AI provides the following features.

Youtube Video Editor

Slideshow Maker

AI Talking Avatar

AI Script Generator

AI Text To Video

AI Video Editor

AI Video Generator

AI Faceless Video Generator

AI Voice Generator

Steve AI

https://app.steve.ai/

Steve AI can provide you with a very interesting toolkit, to convert text to video/animation. The videos are interesting too.

Ink Sprout

https://inksprout.co

Inksprout tackles an interesting niche, it summarizes your blog post first and then converts that summary into a video, with text overlapping on the video. This video format is created particularly for social media short-form consumption.