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News, tutorials, and product updates from the InkSlop team: AI video creation tips, feature releases, and creator guides for TikTok and YouTube.

  1. Every English Kokoro Voice, With Audio Samples

    All 28 American and British Kokoro TTS voices reading the same passage, with their official quality grades, measured pace and pitch, and which ones to use.

    Andy Woods

  2. Why Is It Called InkSlop?

    An AI video tool with "slop" in its name sounds like a joke at our own expense. It is. Here is where the name came from, why some of us argued against it, and why we kept it.

    Andy Woods

  3. InVideo AI Alternative: How InkSlop Compares

    An honest comparison of InkSlop and InVideo AI for narrated and short-form video: how each works, pricing, voices, generative video, publishing, and who each one suits.

    Andy Woods

  4. Pictory Alternative: When InkSlop Fits Better, and When It Doesn't

    An honest comparison of InkSlop and Pictory for faceless and short-form video: pricing, voices, stock footage, publishing, and which kind of creator each one suits.

    Andy Woods

  5. YouTube Video Optimization Checklist

    Everything you can adjust around a video to help it get clicked, watched and recommended, from titles and thumbnails to chapters, end screens and reviving old uploads.

    Andy Woods

  6. Short-Form Video Playbook: Shorts, TikTok and Reels

    How the three short-form platforms differ, how their feeds decide who sees your video, how to structure and format a Short, and how short-form creators actually get paid.

    Andy Woods

  7. How to Monetize a Small YouTube Channel

    Ad revenue is only one way to earn from YouTube, and not the first one available. Here is every income stream open to a small channel, what YouTube requires for each, and how RPM really works.

    Andy Woods

  8. Automated Video Generation with the InkSlop API

    How to generate, render and publish videos from code with the InkSlop API, from your first request to batches built from data, with working Python examples and the limits to plan around.

    Andy Woods

  9. A Reddit Story Where Every Character Has Their Own Voice

    How we made an 82-second Reddit story video with four AI voices designed from written descriptions, from the script and the jokes to the renderer changes it needed and what it cost.

    Andy Woods

  10. YouTube Video Formats and How to Script Each One

    Script structures for the video formats that work on YouTube, with word counts, openings that hold viewers, and how to use AI for drafts without losing your voice.

    Andy Woods

  11. InkSlop vs Pictory vs Runway: Picking the Right Tool for the Job

    These three tools are often mentioned in the same breath but they solve different problems. Here is an honest comparison of what each one actually does, who it is built for, and where it falls short.

    Andy Woods

  12. The Best CC0 and CC BY Stock Footage Sites for Video Creators

    Not all "free" stock footage is actually free to use in monetised content. Here are the sites with genuinely permissive licenses, what each one is best for, and the one thing to always check before using a clip.

    Andy Woods

  13. How to Repurpose a Blog Post Into a Video

    Blog posts and videos use the same information but in different structures. Here is how to convert one into the other without losing what made the original worth reading.

    Andy Woods

  14. Open Source TTS in Production: What We Learned Running Kokoro on CPU

    Kokoro is an 82M parameter TTS model that runs on CPU, costs under $1 per million characters, and produces word-level timing data. Here is what running it inside Celery workers actually looks like.

    Andy Woods

  15. How We Built InkSlop: The Tech Stack

    FastAPI, Celery, SvelteKit, Lark, Kokoro, SQLite, and a few deliberate choices about what not to build. Here is the full stack and the reasoning behind each layer.

    Andy Woods