AI Tools & Automation

Guides, tutorials, and tips on ai tools & automation from the InkSlop team. 11 articles.

  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. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. AI Voiceover Compared: Kokoro, Qwen3, MiMo and ElevenLabs

    The same passage read by Kokoro, Qwen3 and MiMo voice design, with what each engine costs, where it falls short, and when ElevenLabs is still worth paying for.

    Andy Woods

  10. The DSL Approach to Video Scripting: Why We Built It

    Most video tools use drag-and-drop timelines. We built a grammar instead. Here is the thinking behind InkSlop's DSL and what it gets you over a visual editor.

    Andy Woods

  11. What Is InkSlop?

    A plain-English guide to what InkSlop does, who it's for, and how it turns text into published video in minutes.

    Andy Woods