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The voice gets personal — your own narrating voice, a marketplace for it, and a credit balance that carries it all

The voice gets personal — your own narrating voice, a marketplace for it, and a credit balance that carries it all

Thimo Buchheister · June 28, 2026 · 0 comments
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The weeks before turned narration into a real listening experience — gapless playback, synchronized read-along, a search that understands. Now it's about the question of whose voice is actually telling the story. OutaStory can now read a story aloud in your own, cloned voice: record a short sample once, and your voice narrates every chapter. To carry that, there's now a full credit system with a real wallet — top-uppable on the web via Stripe and directly in the apps via the stores. Cloning grows into a small marketplace: anyone who wants to can lend out their voice, and others narrate their stories with it — the voice owner earns from it. A story can now carry several audio versions that listeners can switch between. Underneath it all, lifecycle hardening keeps the voices reliable, a professional cloning tier is waiting in the wings, the catalog grows by 23 German children's classics, and the profile gets rounder.

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Audio grows up — synchronized read-along, gapless playback, and a search that understands what you mean

Audio grows up — synchronized read-along, gapless playback, and a search that understands what you mean

Thimo Buchheister · June 19, 2026 · 0 comments
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With the foundation in place, the last few days were about two senses: listening and finding. OutaStory turned simple narration into a real listening experience — gapless playback across every platform, chapter skipping and scrubbing right from the lock screen, and a synchronized read-along where the text lights up exactly where the voice is. Finished audio versions now sit pre-generated and ready, playing instantly. Search was rebuilt from the ground up — from simple text matching through a German full-text analyzer to Azure AI Search, which forgives typos and ranks by relevance. And underneath all of it: an honest story about a bug that quadrupled every duration — found, fixed, and pinned down with tests for good.

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Voices that sound human — OutaStory receives an ElevenLabs grant

Voices that sound human — OutaStory receives an ElevenLabs grant

Thimo Buchheister · June 17, 2026 · 0 comments
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This week an email arrived that genuinely made me happy: OutaStory GmbH has been accepted into the ElevenLabs Grants program. ElevenLabs builds — in many people's view — the most natural AI voices in the world. For a platform whose stated goal is to offer every story not just to read but also to listen to, that's more than a voucher for a few credits: it's the prospect of narrations that don't sound like a machine, but like someone who's truly reading to you. This post tells you who ElevenLabs is, why good voices are so central to OutaStory, and what this grant concretely makes possible.

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Solidifying the foundation — editable legal texts, one consistent voice in every email, and a safety net that tests like a human

Solidifying the foundation — editable legal texts, one consistent voice in every email, and a safety net that tests like a human

Thimo Buchheister · June 12, 2026 · 0 comments
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After the platform got personal in the previous weeks, the last few days revolved around what lies beneath it: a foundation of trust. Legal texts that can be maintained — versioned, bilingual, editable in one place —, a privacy notice split into three clear statements for visitors, members, and authors, a single, recognizable voice in every automated email, and an automatic safety net that runs through the real, live platform like a real reader, a real author, and a real administrator — before anything reaches you.

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The platform gets personal — a homepage that learns as you go, a profile that means something, and an insights layer for authors

The platform gets personal — a homepage that learns as you go, a profile that means something, and an insights layer for authors

Thimo Buchheister · June 07, 2026 · 0 comments
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After the library leap of the previous weeks, the last good week and a half revolved around one question: how does OutaStory become personal? A homepage that learns from reading behavior — anonymously and with minimal data footprint —, an expanded profile with birthday, address, favorite categories and freely chosen interests (occupation, music, hobbies), per-attribute recommendation rails, your own avatar upload, a full analytics and story-insights layer for authors, a noticeably wider genre tree with fresh sample stories, three rewritten about-us pages with clean search-engine and AI discoverability — and a privacy inventory that discloses every data category.

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