Introducing Acryl - mobile app for creating audiobooks from paper books you already have! 📚🎧 Here's a audiobook example made 100% in Acryl: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rkxRu4HG0PY
Hello folks, Michał here. I'm a solo founder who builds mobile apps in the AI space. You can follow my journey on Twitter at @msmialko.
🔮 Generate audio
Acryl was created for my kid. He loves listening to audiobooks, but some of his favorite books don't have an audio version. With Acryl, we can use AI to generate beautifully narrated books from text photos of his books.
🗣️ Character Voices
What's even better is that Acryl recognizes different characters in the book. You can then assign a different voice to each character, which makes the whole listening experience 10x better.
Plan for the future? My wife and I want to ultimately turn this app into the "audiobook center" for kids. We're in talks with publishers so that we can offer audiobooks in the app for a subscription fee (similar to Audible).
However, we want to focus only on curated content. There's too much "content junk food" in kids' books. They teach our kids bad habits and behaviors. Our focus will be on making sure that 100% of the books in Acryl are editor-vetted and great for any kid.
This is an amazing..Congratulations ! I like seeing technology that can make a difference in children lives.
Hi @michal_smialko, Acryl looks like a great little app. I do have a few suggestions:
1. Please change the video on your hero section. It has no audio and it's hard to discern what is happening. I would love to see a popular book (in English, if that's what your primary target audience is) being scanned, with music and voice over. This would really help your conversion rate.
2. Android app would be great.
Good luck!
Navi from BillionAI.co
Congratulations ! I like seeing technology that can make a difference in children lives.
Sounds Amazing! I love how it's not just about making audiobooks accessible, but also about enhancing the experience with AI-generated narration and character voices.
Hi, Michal! I haven't tried the app yet, but I'm familiar with ElevenLabs, which you use in the project. Frankly, it sounds brilliant — to customize audiobooks for kids just like this. Congrats with the launch on PH!
About Acryl on Product Hunt
“Create audiobooks from paper books with AI”
Acryl launched on Product Hunt on April 27th, 2024 and earned 150 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Introducing Acryl - mobile app for creating audiobooks from paper books you already have! 📚🎧 Here's a audiobook example made 100% in Acryl: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rkxRu4HG0PY
Acryl was featured in iOS (110.2k followers), Artificial Intelligence (466.3k followers) and Entertainment (1.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 125.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Acryl?
Acryl was hunted by Michał Śmiałko. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Michał Śmiałko