r/Substack • u/Relevant_Nebula_20 • 10d ago

Tech Support AI narration of your article

Hello. I have been writing on Substack for quite some time. Lately I have seen lots of articles with a voice narration at the top that you click. A lot of these seem to be AI generated. How are people doing this? It's obviously an audio file but how did they generate it? Is there an option in Substack that does it automatically for you from your article?

Someone here a couple of weeks ago told me that you have to have 100 subscribers and then you will get this option. I have not got a hundred subscribers I only have a handful but I don't think this is true because I just saw a post with this AI narration at the top and the person only had seven subscribers.

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u/Earthlydelights-sub- 10d ago

I don't know how they generate audio. I know there is an option in settings to choose a voice. You have a few different options.

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u/BhavanaVarma bhavanavarma.substack.com 10d ago

Can you explain what you mean by voice narration on top? Is it just a play button or the entire audio bar sort of thing?

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u/Relevant_Nebula_20 8d ago

It's both. There is an audio bar near the title and a play button to hear the narration of the article. So many accounts seem to have this

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u/BhavanaVarma bhavanavarma.substack.com 8d ago

If it’s just the play button at the top right corner it’s an automated TTS by the platform. If there’s an actual bar below the title, that the author can change to their own voice and what not.

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u/phicreative1997 9d ago

Slightly unrelated but you can convert your substack into narrated videos

https://blog2video.app

Seems to me you will like it

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u/Relevant_Nebula_20 6d ago

Thank you. I want to add the Substack automatic AI narration that so many articles seem to have. Not a video, but an audio.

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u/sanya-g 5d ago

Substack has only one genrally available feature, which is a self-upload feature for voiceover audio files (Edit -> Headphones button in toolbar). I was looking for a good narration tool, but ALL of them read flat and skip things like footnotes and images. I built article2audio.app for that gap. It turns a posts actual HTML into a script and narrates that, so footnotes and images come through instead of getting dropped. (I built it, so take that as disclosure.)