In the past few weeks, we spent quite a lot of time solving the problem of how members can purchase licenses online. Now, we have launched the order and payment system and are integrating different payment channels so that our members can purchase licenses more conveniently and thus quickly access the desired services. Meanwhile, although we have spent a lot of time on orders and payments, we haven't stopped the pace of developing new products. We have launched a new agent called Book Voice, which helps users create their own audiobooks and enables the text content to be voiced according to the creator's ideas.

Online License Purchase

In the past, the only way for us to obtain licenses was through redeeming with membership points. However, since obtaining membership points was also a troublesome thing, many users needed to contact us to get more points after using up their membership points, which reduced efficiency and also had a certain impact on the continuity of user client services.

Now, we can directly purchase licenses through online payment. With online purchase, you don't need to obtain membership points in advance and then redeem them. After you complete the payment, the license will be automatically issued directly to your membership account.

Currently, we have integrated the payment channel of WeChat Pay. Users in mainland China and those who can use WeChat Pay can make online purchases. Users in other countries and regions don't need to worry. We will connect payment channels in many places around the world as soon as possible so that all users can obtain licenses through online purchase.

License Cipher

Although we have enabled the ability to purchase online, we still retain the original mode of redeeming licenses with membership points. Because our membership points can be obtained in the form of rewards, it is also a good choice to redeem licenses with membership points when necessary.

The new feature is that we have launched the License Cipher function. That is, you can obtain a special Cipher. This Cipher itself is a recharge card for membership points, but at the same time, it is an express channel card for redeeming a certain license.

When we are redeeming a license, we will find the option of "Use Cipher to Redeem" below the "Consumption" field. After checking it, a field for filling in the independent Cipher will pop up. Using this Cipher will not consume your current membership points but directly consume the Cipher itself. In this way, we can redeem licenses more conveniently.

New Agent

We have developed an agent to help users convert text content into sound. You can experience it through Book Voice Service.

For many content creators, there are many disadvantages in converting large pieces of text into speech. For example, many TTS products do not support long texts or their prices are too high. Moreover, these products usually generate the speech corresponding to the entire text at one time. When we find that a certain sentence needs to be modified, we have to regenerate the whole thing, and the cost is quite high. However, Book Voice has chosen another innovative way, which not only solves the problem of generating speech from long texts but also solves the editing problem. Specifically, Book Voice has the following features:

• It generates sentences one by one after splitting long texts, thus making it easy and inexpensive to edit a certain sentence.
• It can perform independent dubbing for characters in stories, allowing your stories to switch back and forth among multiple characters and enriching the characters' images.
• Multiple generation models are available for dubbing. You can create unique dubbing characters according to the characteristics of the characters or stories and use these characters to voice specific content. In this way, in the same story, you can use the voice line effects of different voice models to enrich the characters' images in the story.
• Some models support voice cloning, and some cloning supports zero-shot, so that you can use the voices you like to dub the content.
• You can also configure the delay of certain content, so that your voice can cooperate with the video you have made to achieve different degrees of pause effects.

All in all, Book Voice has broken the inherent text reading mode and provided users with a highly free voice generation ability.

Conclusion

Developround adheres to the concept of closely following the technological trend of the AI era, continuously providing users with new technological support. We will continue to optimize the platform to enable users to obtain better services. In the following period, we will also launch more services and agents. Please follow our blog, and we will release our updates as soon as possible.