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The easy way to create stunning audio, translate your content and have your story told.
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The easy way to create stunning audio, translate your content and have your story told.
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November 13, 2024:
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Wondercraft and Frequency have produced an integration to let brands and media publishers produce and deploy personalised audio ad campaigns. The tools let you build alternative copy, or even use AI to make hundreds of different variations.
October 21, 2024:
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Weird: we used Wondercraft AI to translate a recent Podnews Daily podcast into Swedish (because that’s where we are today). Perhaps because it contains an English pre-roll, maybe because the RSS says it’s in English, or perhaps because our devices are in English, the automatically-generated Apple Podcasts transcript is... entirely translated into English. Have we stumbled on a new feature from Apple Podcasts?
October 11, 2024:
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Wondercraft has added a “director mode”, allowing you to give more control over the service’s AI voices.
October 4, 2024:
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Wondercraft now allows you to direct its AI voices, letting you change the voice’s accent, tone, and even merge voices together.
September 5, 2024:
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Our podcast today uses a Wondercraft AI voice clone, since we're travelling. It sounds a bit Essex, innit.
August 15, 2024:
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Audacia Audio is to use Wondercraft AI for audio ads in multiple languages across APAC. The tool reduces average production time from three weeks to three days, says the company.
August 12, 2024:
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AI audio creation tool Wondercraft has announced a change in pricing for new subscribers; and given existing users more credits. Credits are now charged for each piece of audio generated, including previews, rather than solely for produced audio tracks.
August 9, 2024:
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The Podnews Weekly Review this week contains Oskar Serrander on Wondercraft's new ad service; Josh Divney on Podcast Discovery's Virtual Studio, and Mathew Passy on the new Podcast Beacons. We also discuss X Corp and GARM.
August 5, 2024:
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Wondercraft has launched Ad Studio, which writes, translates and produces studio-quality audio ads. We gave it a go today to create an ad for Podnews; you can hear it within the press release. It joins tools like ENCO’s SPECai, Futuri’s SpotOn and Adthos.
July 26, 2024:
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Wondercraft is to unveil a new interface on Aug 5. There’s an email in your inbox if you’re a Wondercraft user with more info.
July 19, 2024:
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Didier Sibellas has joined Wondercraft as Head of Design. Wondercraft calls itself “Canva for Audio”; Sibellas worked at Canva for eight years, and was Canva’s first full-time Product Designer and Head of Digital Design.
July 8, 2024:
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Could your podcast grow faster if it’s dubbed into different languages? We played with Wondercraft AI all this week. Wondercraft AI has a feature called “dubs” - you upload your audio of you reading something and it will dub it into another language - using your voice. Here is our daily podcast in French, in Japanese, in Danish, in Dutch, and in Arabic (including a clip of a guest, too). If you speak any of those languages, we’d be curious to hear your comments.
May 20, 2024:
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Audio production tool Wondercraft has announced a new feature, “parrot mode”, which enables users to tell AI voices exactly how to deliver lines. (We’ve a video of the tool in the press release). The selected AI voice will precisely mimic the user’s desired tone, pace and intonation.
April 18, 2024:
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Hit true crime show One Minute Remaining is to be made available to Spanish speakers. The Acast show is using Wondercraft to introduce the show to Spanish speakers globally. Uno Minuto Restante is now available in all major podcast apps.
March 11, 2024:
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Wondercraft has developed a transcription service with human quality assurance. AI transcripts typically have a 5% error rate, the company says. The company has also launched a feature allowing their voices to express emotion and accents.
March 5, 2024:
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Wondercraft - “Canva for audio” - won product of the day at Product Hunt.
February 2, 2024:
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Podcastle, an AI content creation platform, has closed a $13.5mn funding round. Earlier this week, AI tool Wondercraft raised $3mn - co-founder Oskar Serrander is interviewed today in the Podnews Weekly Review.
January 30, 2024:
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AI-powered audio service Wondercraft has raised $3m in funding. “The technology enables anyone to create studio-quality audio productions in any language, by simply typing.” Included in the investors is Steven Bartlett, the host of Diary of a CEO. The former COO of Acast, Oskar Serrander, is a co-founder. Hacker News Recap is an example AI-generated podcast from the company.
September 27, 2023:
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Announced on the same day as Spotify's AI translations, Wondercraft AI also launched an AI dubbing tool. Unlike Spotify's pilot, the Wondercraft tool is available to all podcasts in thirteen different languages. Here's our own daily podcast, dubbed into Spanish.
April 12, 2023:
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We mentioned the Hacker News Recap yesterday - a fully-AI produced podcast from the latest Hacker News stories. It looks like we're out of a job too , with a podcast made from our newsletter. We prefer our real podcast though!