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24 alternatives to Hindenburg

Intuitive and sophisticated audio book production tool.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Hindenburg launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Audiologs - 001: Welcome▲55

   A personal audio journal experiment

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

2. 2AF
   Audiobooks for Movies and Shows▲6

   2019 · audieapp.com · its alternatives →

3. 3BA
   Bound – Audiobooks for Dropbox▲6

   2016 · boundapp.audio · its alternatives →

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   I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speechfree tier, from $15/mo▲140

   Hey HN. I’m Ivan, hacker from Ukraine. For about a year, I was working on Listenly — an app to listen to text content with OpenAI's natural-sounding text-to-speech model. At some moment, I realized that it would be cool to take all the public domain e-books and create audio versions for them. So I did it... kind-of. It would cost an immense amount of money to generate all the audio right away (OpenAI TTS costs approximately $0.84/hour of audio; 11labs, for comparison, is 10 times more expensive). So, I took a more gradual approach. I took all the metadata from the Project Gutenberg…

   2024 · listenly.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   The Typewriter Revolution▲65

   A typist's companion for the 21st century

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   WeWrite▲90

   Crowdsourced Storytelling

   2014 · its alternatives →

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   Hamlet on the Holodeck▲67

   The future of narrative in cyberspace

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Oddysey▲81

   A simple way to weave interactive stories

   2014 · cartodb.github.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Mus + Audiobooks 3.0▲66

   Listen to your audiobooks with music simultaneously

   2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Plot Shift▲64

    Collaborative storytelling

    2014 · plotshift.com · its alternatives →

11. 11AR
    A Reddit+Wiki-like site for finding and sharing audiobooks▲9

    2018 · audiobookreviews.com · its alternatives →

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    SpokenLayer▲25

    Turns written content into audio in minutes

    2014 · spokenlayer.com · its alternatives →

13. 13FA
    Facile.Audio – A library for live audio streaming from the browser▲7

    2016 · facile.audio · its alternatives →

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    AUM▲7

    A flexible audio mixer & recorder

    2017 · kymatica.com · its alternatives →

15. 15TT
    Text-to-speech app for ebooks, with human-like voices▲5

    2020 · gethowler.com · its alternatives →

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    Bello Collective▲4

    For people with a passion for audio storytelling

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Hullabalu▲18

    storytelling for the next generation

    2014 · alltexseed.com · its alternatives →

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    LibriVox▲3

    Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.

    2016 · librivox.org · its alternatives →

19. 19TE
    Text Editor for creating Voice Over Audio▲8

    2019 · play.ht · its alternatives →

20. 20FA
    Flow, a WebRTC/Web Audio HTML5 experiment.▲6

    2012 · trypwire.flow.jit.su · its alternatives →

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    Eary – the easiest way to listen to audiobooks on Spotify▲5

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    PostPlay▲6

    Professional narrations made easy.

    2017 · its alternatives →

23. 23BA
    BandFu, an experimental audio playground▲5

    2013 · bandfu.com · its alternatives →

24. 24ST
    Speech to text and synchronized transcript with audio▲7

    2020 · voicen.com · its alternatives →

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