I thought this would mean I could use my subscription, as OpenAI/Codex supports this kind of authentication flow, and it's very easy to integrate with that as a service, and users login with the OpenAI authentication flow, or via device codes.
Instead this asks for an API key, which is very different from "Use your OpenAI subscription" and to be honest, I'm not sure how anyone who has a OpenAI subscription could mistake this for such. Has this even been tested once?
Maybe I missed something obvious, I had a five second look and closed it when it seemed to be outright intentionally misleading.
wastewastewaste•16m ago
title literally says "Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks" so im also confused lol
edit:
i guess this explains it, its sorta half half
Your subscription will be used for:
document processing (via MCP)already paid by your subscription
Your API key will be used for:
generating speechOpenAI charges per usage
janpmz•13m ago
There are two parts to the processing. The processing of the document itself is done on your OpenAI/Codex subscription. Additionally, you have to submit an API key for the text-to-speech processing. There you can use a Gemini key or an OpenAI key.
xenocratus•22m ago
I did something very similar to this, for myself, but which takes a web page for an article, cleans up the text to preserve the article only, and converts it using TTS, then adds it to a cloud bucket with an RSS stream, and I use that RSS link as a podcast in Apple Podcast.
_ink_•15m ago
Sounds great! Any interest in open sourcing your approach?
robot_jesus•2m ago
Oh man. I did something similar but didn’t do the last mile with the cloud bucket and RSS stream and that seems key. I never have the energy to manually copy the mp3s over to the phone.
x______________•20m ago
Is "paste your OpenAI API key" the new form of "paste your credit card number with exp/code" for example, to check if its been compromised?
laylower•19m ago
What prevents someone submitting an epub or a pdf and ask claude or another llm to narrate a novel in morgan freeman's voice?
springtimesun•7m ago
Claude has gotten pretty sensitive to copyright. In addition to the no song lyrics that was posted in another article, I also find it will not generally transcribe podcasts (you have to play with model versions and even effort inside that).
KellyCriterion•4m ago
Couple of weeks ago it refused to cite one of the public available EU-text from their gov site to me
jaccola•14m ago
Looks cool but how on earth does your demo video not show a sample of the result?! It ends right before the exciting part. Madness!
matthorse•5m ago
How well does it handle larger files? And other book formats, like epub or mobi?
embedding-shape•24m ago
I thought this would mean I could use my subscription, as OpenAI/Codex supports this kind of authentication flow, and it's very easy to integrate with that as a service, and users login with the OpenAI authentication flow, or via device codes.
Instead this asks for an API key, which is very different from "Use your OpenAI subscription" and to be honest, I'm not sure how anyone who has a OpenAI subscription could mistake this for such. Has this even been tested once?
Maybe I missed something obvious, I had a five second look and closed it when it seemed to be outright intentionally misleading.
wastewastewaste•16m ago
edit: i guess this explains it, its sorta half half
Your subscription will be used for:
Your API key will be used for:janpmz•13m ago