Hi all. Just wondering if anyone uses or is experimenting with text-to-speech. If so, what are you using? I'm Curious what are you using it for? How are you producing text-to-speech? Are you using a service, an app, or something else? And if you don't mind me asking, how are you, and how much are you paying for it?

Altman said this week that AI will be sold like electricity. Metered. On demand. A utility. For content creators and marketers, this isn't abstract. Think about what happened when video production tools became cheap. YouTube exploded. Not because video technology was new. Because the barrier to creating video dropped low enough that millions of people could suddenly publish. The same thing is happening with AI-powered content. When AI tokens become a utility, the cost of generating voiceovers drops. The cost of translating content into 12 languages drops. The cost of repurposing one piece of content into 30 formats drops. Right now, a lot of that is expensive or manual. Cloud APIs charge per character, per minute, per whatever. You're watching a meter while you create. When that meter runs close to zero, the volume of content explodes. And the competitive advantage shifts from "who can afford to produce" to "who has the best ideas and the best distribution." I'm building AI-native content tools right now as a solo founder. Five-plus products. One person. No team. A decade ago I tried building multiple products solo and failed miserably. The infrastructure didn't exist. Today, AI is that infrastructure. One person can now ship things that would have taken entire teams. People ask me constantly if AI is a bubble. I push back every time. I'm in it every day, building real products. This feels like electricity going mainstream, not like tulips about to crash. For the content people here: when the cost of AI- generated content drops to nearly zero, what changes in your strategy? More volume? New formats? Different distribution? Curious how you're thinking about this.

I woke up this morning to 10 fresh podcast episodes. Fully researched. Scripted. Narrated. Visuals timed to every beat. Published to YouTube, RSS, and my own website. I didn't make any of them. A machine on my desk did. While I slept. I launched these channels at the end of February. It hasn't been a month yet. Some channels are pulling 1,000+ views and gaining subscribers - with zero ads, zero promotion, zero outreach. But here's what I need you to understand: this is not a prompt. When people hear "automated content," they picture someone typing a topic into a chatbox and hitting publish. That's not what this is. That's not even close. What I built is a multi-stage production pipeline. Not a single generation step - a sequence of independent systems, each with its own job, its own rules, and its own quality bar. Every stage has to pass before the next one starts. If something isn't good enough, it gets caught, flagged, and redone automatically. Here's what that actually means in practice: Every episode starts with real research. Not "summarise this topic." Actual source-finding, fact-checking, angle evaluation. The kind of editorial groundwork a good producer would do before writing a single word. Most automated content skips this entirely. Mine can't - the pipeline won't let it move forward without it. Then there's the writing. And this is where I spent most of my 45 days. I didn't just generate scripts - I built an entire set of rules around how spoken language works differently from written language. How rhythm changes when someone is listening instead of reading. How a pause lands. How a transition should feel. Early versions sounded like a textbook. Now they sound like someone talking to you. After the writing comes the part most people don't think about: quality control. Every script gets evaluated across multiple dimensions before it moves on. There's a hard pass/fail threshold. I've watched the system reject its own output dozens of times and come back with something genuinely better. Nothing mediocre gets through. That's not a nice-to-have - it's the reason the content performs.

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Hey Academy, If you boil life down to its essentials — the two or three things that matter most from day to day — seize the day is certainly on that short list. It's at the heart of my favorite movie, Dead Poets Society. Each day we get up, we have a lot of choices. But we have one choice that matters most: to live that day to the best of our ability. And if we do that, we'll be much better off. It's obvious when you think about it. And you're probably reading this nodding your head — yeah, I know. We've heard these things our whole life. But that's exactly the point. You know it, but you don't really know it. You haven't internalized it. Because day after day, we don't actually seize the day. That's what makes it such an interesting concept — something we know, yet don't do. I don't say it every day, but on a regular basis I tell my kids to seize the day. I tell them to live life. I tell them to scream it out in public — which, of course, they don't, because that's embarrassing. But you should. You should go out and scream it out. Walk out into — maybe not the middle of a crowd, but out in an area where people will hear you, so it's real. And do it. My friend and I used to ride our bikes to this little section of road where we would pedal as fast as we could until a line in the pavement where we'd take our feet off the pedals, just to see how far we could get. Each time trying to get a little bit further than the last. And for whatever reason, we would yell at the same time: "Live life, my friend!" People would look at us strangely, as you might expect. That's easier with a friend, of course — doing these things. But the value of those little moments is that they pull you out of the day-to-day. They remind you to live life. To seize the day. And it's especially hard when you're in a mode where you're failing. Maybe you've kept trying to do something and you failed. Or maybe you actually achieved something great — and then you screwed it up. It feels like all is lost. Maybe you're 40 or 45 or even 50. Or maybe you're young. And you feel like you gave away that one opportunity you had. Maybe you did. Maybe you didn't. Who knows?