well then.
From what I understand. The development team plans to transition to ElevenReader, while Omnivore will remain open-source and, hopefully, community-driven.
Servers will be shutting down in November so if you are not self hosting you will need to backup your saved articles.
Here is the full email I got:
Hello everyone,
We’re excited to share that Omnivore is joining forces with ElevenLabs, the leading AI audio research and technology company. Our team is joining ElevenLabs to help drive the future of accessible reading and listening with their new ElevenReader app.
As part of the ElevenLabs team, we’ll have an even larger platform to create accessible and engaging experiences for serious readers. We came to know ElevenLabs by integrating their ultra realistic AI voices into Omnivore—soon enough, listening to articles and books with ElevenLabs voices became one of our most popular features in Omnivore. We’re thrilled about this opportunity, and we wanted to share some info that’s important for you to know.
First, all Omnivore users are invited to create a free account with ElevenReader. Our team has already shipped valuable updates to the ElevenReader app, and it’s incredibly powerful as a go-to reader and audio listening app that’s free:
Download for iOS | Download for Android
Next, all Omnivore users will be able to export their information from the service through November 15 2024, after which all information will be deleted.
Lastly, ElevenLabs is committed to the developer community and the Omnivore codebase will remain 100% open-source for all users. This decision ensures that the broader development community can continue to build upon and improve Omnivore’s technology.
We hope you’ll join us on Discord and try the ElevenReader app for iOS and Android. We’re hard at work ensuring an accessible, bright future for readers everywhere.
Onwards,
Jackson & Hongbo
Is this good news or bad news?
an open source service gets bought/joins an AI company to develop a closed source version of the same service, while leaving the code ot the old clients open.
I dont know if it’s a bad thing 🤷 Its still open source 🤷
My brain…
Google join omni, ok but its still open source so good 🤷
Chinese join omni, ok but its still open source so good 🤷
Hitler join omni, ok but its still open source so good 🤷
Yeh I may need help with my brain wash state if Im wrong.
Its still open source
the code for the client they’re about to abandon is, that’s about it. the new service doesn’t share its source code.
Haven’t heard of ElevenLabs, I wonder how it compares to Speechify
