i had this problem with almost all the tts platforms right now, where they allow you only a certain amount of characters/words, and it gets expensive if you try to use it daily to listen to long text, reddit posts, articles, x threads, chapters of books, its not practical to do that because you be spending a lot of money to do that daily, so i founded narratorbox.app, where it allows you to do just that, each user can start listening immediately to the text as soon as it gets pasted, no matter how long it is, it's paste limit is 60k characters per generation, and you have 350 audio generation minutes per day, check it out and tell me your thoughts.

i had this problem with almost all the tts platforms right now, where they allow you only a certain amount of characters/words, and it gets expensive if you try to use it daily to listen to long text, reddit posts, articles, x threads, chapters of books, its not practical to do that because you be spending a lot of money to do that **daily**, so i founded narratorbox.app, where it allows you to do just that, each user can start listening immediately to the text as soon as it gets pasted, no matter how long it is, it's paste limit is 60k characters per generation, and you have 350 audio generation minutes **per day**, check it out and tell me your thoughts.

i had this problem a lot, where i want to listen to articles but tts platforms charge based on characters or words and the cheapest monthly allowance covers few articles worth of audio, then i decided to build my own, now i am trying to make it an app, where you can paste any length of text, and starts the narration immediately, no character count, no word count, unlimited, with high quality voice, try it out narratorbox.app

and please if you have any feedback, it would be appreciated.

i kept running into the same problem: i had a huge backlog of stuff i wanted to read but no time to actually sit and read it. articles, long email threads, my own drafts i wanted to proofread by ear, research papers, fanfic, whatever.
  the text-to-speech tools i tried either capped how much you could paste, made you wait while they processed the whole thing first, or sounded like a 2009 GPS.

  so i built NarratorBox.

  you paste text in, hit go, and it starts reading almost immediately, it doesn't wait to "process" the whole thing first, it just starts and keeps streaming as it goes. that means it doesn't matter if you paste a paragraph or an entire book chapter; it starts playing right away and never chokes on length.

  a few things i cared about getting right:

  - starts instantly : no progress bar, no "generating…" spinner before you hear anything
  - handles anything long : paste a whole article, a chapter, a giant thread; it just works
  - real, natural-sounding voices : a bunch to pick from, in multiple languages
  - adjustable pace : speed it up or slow it down to your liking
  - optional library : save a narration if you want to come back and re-listen, or don't, your call

  i mostly use it to get through my reading pile while doing dishes or walking, and honestly it's been great for catching typos in my own writing, your ear catches stuff your eyes skip right over.

  it's live and working. i'd genuinely love feedback, what voices you'd want, what's clunky, what would make it actually useful for you. happy to answer anything.

try it at : narratorbox.app