Voiceep

Voiceep is a project I started back in 2018. In short, it was an app that offered an audio voiceover widget and management system for bloggers and website owners

The Pitch

Here's a quote from an article I wrote for the project back in 2018:

Voiceep is a brand new service that aims to fill that gap in order to help bloggers to make the switch to audio, without having to put a lot of effort in.

The service allows you to add a short snippet of code on your article pages to make an audio player appear. Text-to-speech narrations can be automatically created for you, but it also allows you to create and/or upload your own narrations, which will then be playable by your visitors using the same audio player that is now on your site.

More about Voiceep, and why audio matters

You can find more information on the audio space and my thoughts on it back in those days on this Medium article I wrote back when I first released Voiceep: https://medium.com/@mileperron/audio-is-the-way-of-the-future-bloggers-this-is-for-you-d237479031c 

Where is it now?

The project is no longer active; the site and application are not available anymore. Like most of my personal projects, I had a great time building the thing and making it work well, and then... I dropped it like a hot potato once time came to actually market it and try to sell people on it.

Text-to-speech technology still wasn't good enough for long blog articles at the time, and manually recording voiceovers is too time consuming for the vast majority of people. I can still remember how hard it was to get people to record voiceovers for their blog articles at Eckinox when we used it on the company blog back in those days.

However, I still think there's room in the market for this type of product nowadays, especially now that it could be bundled with AI-generated voice from the author of a blog themselves. I still think most blogs could benefit from an audio player like this. I also think having a way to turn blog articles into a high-quality audio format that could be listened to in your podcast apps or something like that would be absolutely marvellous. 

So... maybe I'll get back into it one day. Maybe some other folks will build a great product to fill this gap. Or maybe I'm just totally wrong about this whole concept. Only time will tell!

In the meantime, you can still see Voiceep on the Wayback Machine. 

You can also find Voiceep's source code on Github.