mysvaya

[mysvaya]

Some updates to LyricWinter today.

TLDR: strong free tier. Look at picture below.

1. Updated pricing with a WAY better free tier. 300 min / month on the standard model and 25 min / month on premium models. Paid plans give unlimited rate-limited generation (kinda an oxymoron ik) along with higher premium voice model usage.

2. Different pricing tiers now have different character limits. This refers to the amount of text characters that can be parsed. (Not speakers / identities). 30k, 90k, 150k. Want to turn more text into audio in one go? Try mywinter or ultrawinter.

3. You can see all transactions that have occurred in your dashboard.

This was a much bigger change than it sounds like - so there are probably bugs.

Please hold tight if you run into any, and let me know. I'll be testing further over the coming days.

[mysvaya]

I'll be sure to implement it. Sorry there's so many things in the backlog. I can't get to it immediately.

I am aware fanfictions belong to people. That being said many people put unpublished stories in here. Like many many people. It's as much an exploration tool as it is a modulator.

Supporting development simply means they are going to keep an eye on this because they want this to work. And they want to use this. That's what I want. I'm ok with people not liking the tool. But I wanna know if they would use it if I solved their concerns. Or if they don't really care for what I'm building at all.

Balancing practicality with vision is the difficult part. I understand the concerns.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

1. I promise I didn't delete comments. I had issues w/ Tumblr yesterday when posting. My posts disappeared. And I had to post them again. Perhaps it's related.

2. Sorry I'm not understanding what you meant.

3. I'll do my best to balance things. I won't chain people who love voice. Also I don't consider fanfic writers thieves of character concepts. I don't consider fanartists thieves of character visuals. And I don't consider "fanvoicers" thieves of character voices. Because in all three cases, it is done without impersonation and without deception. The primary reason people have a problem with AI is because when AI does it, it can scale and negatively affect real people. I will protect against those harms. I get it, I haven't done it yet so I don't expect your trust. I will though.

Also to mention, the desire for character voiced audio was never being met at scale in the first place. So this really does create new economic value. Jevon's paradox.

4. $1 for 18 minutes is very affordable compared to the alternative. I will make it cheaper though cause I don't want anyone to not be able to use it every day atleast a bit. That being said, code doesn't run for free. Compute costs money. Making it cheaper isn't so simple as lowering the number. Certain providers for voice generation cost more money and certain cost less. The higher quality ones cost more. And I don't really want free users to get lower quality audio. I'd like to charge on the mechanism rather than the voice fidelity. Ex. Text length. Amount of text.

5. This style of content is very unique. It's unlikely to be used for deceit or impersonation. If someone wanted to do that, they should use elevenlabs. Also... lyricwinter audio quality isn't good enough to impersonate anyways.

6. It's creative self expression to me. That's all I can say. I love hearing my ideas and words turned into voice. And other people love self inserts where they can self insert their voice alongside the characters

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

I was responding to your point on Spyware. This is not Spyware for the record.

On the second point, sure. But lyricwinter provides multi-character emotive character-voiced audio. In a few clicks. AO3 doesn't do that. Generic TTS doesn't do that.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

I do not endorse deceptive use or impersonation.

Fanfiction is written for 1. Create self expression, and 2. meaning and psychological growth

I am not going to tell someone the voice in their head has to stay there. That the voice they love is limited to a domain they cannot interact with.

Or that they can't afford to interact with it.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

Would you be ok with it if all backend AI was self hosted by me using open weight models?

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

1. Idk I'm not deleting comments. It's a Tumblr bug then. Maybe people deleted their own comments.

2. This is in beta. I'm a solo developer and will add in features as soon as I can. If more people were using LyricWinter, I would have gotten investment and this would all be complete in a matter of months with a full team.

3. I have not publicly posted any works without consent in my advertising. Nor does the website enable public posting. I only advertised downloading audio for personal use.

4. I'm part of this community too. I built a tool out of passion. I built the earliest version of this without any intention of even making it available. Then i realized, hey - if I want this, then other people want this too. And I want to take it to the next level and that requires money. As I said it is very affordable already.

5. I do not condone deceptive use of voice cloning or impersonation. People write fanfiction and listen to it for meaning and psychological growth. In addition to that I respect a user's right to creative self expression.

I'm not going to let this displace VAs. I will make them mass passive income on scale if they want it. Whether they want it or not it will be an option. That said, they are not my primary focus, creative self expression is. The root of fanfiction itself.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

AI does not burn the planet. One meat burger is equivalent to 7 million chatgpt queries in terms of water. And for electricity- that can be made renewable. Environment is not the reason to be anti ai.

The only long term reason to be against AI is the social implications. Please read how I'm handling those implications at:

Please note I'm a solo developer right now and am working on features as fast as I can.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

it's a controversial topic. Many people support in silence because they don’t want to be harassed.

One of my users even told me they don't want to be associated with this cause they'll get attacked, even though they have no issues with it. Another user is on Tumblr and just uses lyricwinter in private. People on tiktok have left positive comments though, along with people irl.

I see your point though. I hope the people who see the value and potential in this find it and support development.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

1. I plan to add a self hosted parsing backend for those who do not want their data going through external services. Been putting it off for months while working on other features. When enough users ask for it I will prioritize it. No users have asked yet, and writers do use lyricwinter.

Audio generation on sparktts is already self hosted.

2. I support user freedom to do what they want in their own privacy. Parsing backend aside, it is up to the individual how they interact with information. I will not censor creative self expression.

3. If there is a service I can query to see if a story belongs to someone and if they prefer to disable or enable redistribution on ai derivatives of their work, I will keep it in mind.

If such a service does not exist, I'm open to building one once I can afford a team. Right now it's not in my capacity and it would be unwise to wait for perfection before release.

Mind you, everything is private right now, by default. I have not given users the option to share creations via url yet. Only sharing method is a downloaded audio file.

A lot of people hate but have no intention of supporting development. If you do intend to support development though, I will keep your words in mind.

I will make it better as long as enough people who care are willing to stick around and use it.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

I always recommend to try to anonymize your presence online & use a vpn if you want to maintain full privacy down the line. I'm not gonna sell out my users though, rest assured on that.

If I get enough support from active users though, I can totally add a self hosted model for parsing. The voice cloning part if using sparktts is already self hosted.

My favorite mp3 player was deleted from the app store. Thankfully I still have the app.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

Fandom is not a monolith. I'm not an outsider, and you will find many varied opinions on many things. Gift economy is a notable part of it, but far from the only part of it. Regardless this does not take away from giving. Fandom does not reject AI as a whole, it is a segment that does. And, I have full will of being the best developer I can be. I'm gonna do my best to meet the needs of the community who chooses to use LyricWinter.

Using LyricWinter is incredibly affordable. It's 18 minutes of audio per dollar give or take.

Speech synthesis is not free to run. It costs money. A miniscule amount compared to the alternative. As do I. As do the team members I want to hire in order to create high fidelity audio experiences unlike anything available right now.

I love building this but I'm not going to go hungry for the sake of it. I do however provide plenty of free features cause I too used to be someone w/o a bank account.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

The only comment I deleted was my own cause I made a typo. Lyricwinter is a tool that enables a new medium of audio.

It's on the users to use it responsibly, and I will do my part too.

The site is only done when I stop working on it, and as long as I continue to see many people happily using it day after day, I intend to continue development and improve it. I'm one person and until I can hire a team, development will be as fast as I have capacity. It's been 10 months of development and I don't even have a mobile app yet.

And if it's a feature lyricwinter users want, when I have time and hopefully a team, I'll make it easy to get notified if someone is publicly sharing an audio version of your work.

At present, all usage is private until someone shares a .wav file with someone else.

I never said podficcers don't get permission.

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

Never let someone else take Jimin & Jungkook away from you. AO3’s down again. If there’s a fic you’ve been meaning to get to, LyricWinter lets you convert it to multi-character audio and download it in advance.

No Wi-Fi? Still works. AO3 down? Still works. Your favorites, their voices, offline.

[mysvaya]

At its core, Lyric Winter speaks to that intimate moment when the world outside is frozen, hushed, and still. It’s cold. Maybe snow is falling. But you’re inside, tucked beneath a blanket, no need for daylight, no pressure to keep your eyes open. Just you and a story- one so rich in feeling it radiates warmth despite the chill.

The “Lyric” part carries the softness and emotional texture of a voice. Not just words read aloud, but sung in a way- emotionally resonant, characterful, like someone whispering poetry into the quiet. And “Winter” isn’t just the season- it’s the excuse to turn inward. To retreat into darkness, comfort, and imagination. To feel without judgment. To rest. To disappear into a world where the only light is what you feel.

Together, Lyric Winter becomes a metaphor:

" A place to escape into stories so vivid they warm you from within. A soft refuge for when reality gets too loud. Where silence is welcomed, not feared- and voices carry emotion like snow carries stillness. "

It’s for those who don’t just want to read- they want to feel it, with their eyes closed, in the hush of their own private winter.

[mysvaya]

For the fans who adore voice and can't get enough.

Multi-character voice-cloned fanfic narration in minutes. Paste it in and press a few buttons!

If the character's voice has never been uploaded by anyone before, you will need to add it in the My Voices section.

Let me know what you think!

[mysvaya]

LyricWinter is an AI platform that turns written stories- especially fanfiction- into multi-character audio using voice cloning technology. Unlike robotic text-to-speech tools, it gives each character a distinct, emotionally accurate voice. That means Jungkook actually sounds like Jungkook. You can add whatever characters you want, even yourself!