Thank you for making this, I think it’s really great!
The idea of the attention-grabbing video footage is that you’re not just competing between items on the screen, you’re also competing with the videos that come before and after your video. Therefore, yours has to be visually engaging just for that zoomer (et al.) dopamine rush.
Subway Surfers is inherently pretty active and as you mention, the audio will help you here, though you might be able to find a better voice synthesizer that can be a bit more engaging (not sure if TikTok supplies this). So my counterpoint to Trevor1′s is that we probably want to keep something like Subway Surfers in the background but that can of course be many things such as animated AI generated images or NASA videos of the space race. Who really knows—experimentation is king.
might be able to find a better voice synthesizer that can be a bit more engaging (not sure if TikTok supplies this)
Don’t think I can do this that easily. I’m currently calling Amazon Polly, AWS’ TTS service, from a python script I wrote to render these videos. Tiktok does supply an (imo) annoying-sounding female TTS voice, but that’s off the table since I would have to enter all the text manually on my phone.
experimentation is king.
I could use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to run low-cost focus groups.
Thank you for making this, I think it’s really great!
The idea of the attention-grabbing video footage is that you’re not just competing between items on the screen, you’re also competing with the videos that come before and after your video. Therefore, yours has to be visually engaging just for that zoomer (et al.) dopamine rush.
Subway Surfers is inherently pretty active and as you mention, the audio will help you here, though you might be able to find a better voice synthesizer that can be a bit more engaging (not sure if TikTok supplies this). So my counterpoint to Trevor1′s is that we probably want to keep something like Subway Surfers in the background but that can of course be many things such as animated AI generated images or NASA videos of the space race. Who really knows—experimentation is king.
Thanks!
Don’t think I can do this that easily. I’m currently calling Amazon Polly, AWS’ TTS service, from a python script I wrote to render these videos. Tiktok does supply an (imo) annoying-sounding female TTS voice, but that’s off the table since I would have to enter all the text manually on my phone.
I could use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to run low-cost focus groups.
You should probably use Google Neural2 voices which are far better.