Hi Everyone. I have been chatting with one of the lead developers and he has given me the terms and conditions for doing what I am busy with. My company offers a wide range of cloud/hosting services, all powered by Open Source. So what we have been planning for a long time is to have user tutorial videos for each product we offer. For clients who want a webhosting service that they can manage and resell, we provide ISPConfig, why, because cPanel has a habit of doing price hikes every few months. It's actually why I dropped cPanel when I did, because they had announced their fourth price increase in less than two years. I eventually tried out ISPConfig, fell in love, and it just stuck. But an end user, who just wants to setup email accounts for their staff, or change a password, etc... it can be overwhelming with any control panel. Also, a reseller, who only knows how to set up Wordpress, they need to know how to create a site, create a database, set up a DNS Zone, SPF DKIM DMARC etc. So, for our client base we are making short to the point tutorial videos for each task. I researched my options. I do not have the budget to higher voice talent and a recording studio. I do have a very high end microphone which I use in testing my AI stuff, but I have a terrible voice. But since I am doing a lot AI development I thought, why not make an AI tool that makes the video for me. That would also mean, no video editing on my part. YAY!!!! (My laptop is a 3rd Gen i5 with no GPU and 8GB RAM, so video editing she is not good at). So I am nearly done with the tool that makes the video... so far, it makes the speech, pans each speaker, one a bit to the left and one a bit to the right, stitches the audio together, then builds the background music from a series of loops. This then gets mixed in with the narration. Next I am going to do the rendering of the individual video clips, images and generated slides to create a completed video. Then I will add AI powered translation. The current AI voice model I am using supports the following languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh. So why am I wasting your time posting this here? Well, my wife, who is my business partner, and I, chatted last night, and we have decided, the individual components that make up each video, we want to release as raw files under a creative commons license that allows sharing and remixing. So you all can then use them to build your own videos. Each folder (for each video) will contain, screen captured video clips, images and slides used, the individual audio clips, the background music loops, as well as a text file containing the script we used. This will then allow you to build your own. We will also include a Bash script that you can use to automatically compile everything, with your modifications, into a finished video, with your own branding. And yes, there will be detailed instructions and examples on how to use everything. We feel that we have benefited a lot from ISPConfig UG and the community behind it, so we owe it to the community to give back. What I would love to find out, is how many of you would actually find such video content for your clients, useful? And if so, what languages would you go for? If you post your versions of the videos to any platform such as YouTube or Tiktok or Facebook, etc... you are not allowed to call the Channel/Page anyname that contains ISPConfig in the name. But you can name the videos/playlists with ISPConfig in the name. (@till correct my if I am wrong with this) We will be uploading completed videos onto a white label channel on YouTube in the most popular languages based on your replies. You will all be 100% free to embed these videos and respective playlists into your own company websites. I will create another announcement, and update this one when we start posting. Follow this link to hear an example audio in English. Follow this link to hear an example audio in German This was built 100% using my tools. No 3rd party apps or services were used, except for Pixabay which I used to obtain the sound effects and the music. Then Audacity I used to chop the music up into start, loops, end. Again, the raw file release will come with instructions so you can do the same.
nice.. i think for our clients, english covers all of them.. we do have some welsh councils as customers.. and they're always keen to promote the use of the welsh language.. so having welsh could be advantageous to us.. we do have some where dutch, french or thai might be useful, although they're all fluent in english so far, so not really an issue at the moment, but could be nice to have.
