Tales Factory, An AI Powered Story Book Generator
Tales Factory is a web tool that turns simple text prompts into fully-illustrated stories with a high level of coherency.
In recent months, there has been a lot of buzz around large language models like OpenAI's GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E2, which have demonstrated impressive capabilities in natural language processing and image generation tasks.
These models have been made available to developers through APIs, allowing them to build a wide variety of applications, from chatbots to image generators that can create incredibly detailed images from textual input.
Another fun way to make use of these AI tools is a storybook generation like Tales Factory.
What Is Tales Factory?
Tales Factory is a web tool that turns simple text prompts into stories with a high level of coherency. All stories are complete with custom illustrations and a professional voiceover.
Here’s what the homepage looks like:
I’ve played around with it for a few hours, and I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with what it can do.
Using AI to generate fictional stories is not new. ChatGPT from OpenAI can do that with ease. Google’s LaMDA AI can also generate interesting stories from simple text prompts. Talesfactory seems to be using the same technology as ChatGPT, and the results are surprisingly well-written.
The images look stunning too!
Here’s an example I created:
Prompt: A story of Hades
I noticed that the AI automatically generates a title for me; that is so cool!
The whole generation process took less than a minute, and the result is a six-page story about the dreadful tale of Hades.
You can read it in full here.
Built-in Narrator
Another fascinating feature of this tool is its built-in voiceover. You can have the narrator read the story to you, which is especially useful if you’re not a confident reader or if you just want to sit back and relax while someone else does the reading for you.
The little “play” button will let an AI narrator read all the paragraphs and automatically scroll the pages.
That’s a pretty neat feature, right? Unfortunately, the narrator kind of sounds robotic. Maybe the developers can choose a better AI service to do the job in the future.
Public Stories
All generated stories on free credits are automatically displayed in the public library. You can check out some stunning storybooks here.
Paying users can also choose to make their private stories public.
How Much Is It?
You will receive 5 free credits upon signing up. If you want more generation credits and to make your generated stories private, you can choose between the following subscriptions:
$10 for 150 stories (up to 6 pages each)
$20 for 180 stories (up to 8 pages each with better image quality)
$30 for 200 stories (up to 10 pages each with the best image quality)
What do you think about this pricing?
I think the pricing model sounds like a good deal when you think about how much value it gives to its target users.
Final Thoughts
Overall, I think Talesfactory is a great use case for an extremely powerful AI like GPT-3.5.
This tool is for anyone who can make use of an instant story generator, like parents looking for a fun bedtime story for their kids. Or maybe even an adult who just wants to relax with a quick read—Talesfactory has you covered.
Teachers can also leverage this tool to make and read fresh stories for their students. Think about it, you can simply ask the kids what kind of story they want to hear for the day. Input the request into the AI tool, and in a few seconds, you’ll have a story that is tailored to your needs.
How cool is that?
This article was originally posted on Medium