For readers, Hypnovels represents a new way to experience books aimed at making reading interesting for the ficklest audiences. “There are a lot of AI applications out there trying to turn words into movies.” says PJ Pereira, award-winning advertising veteran and founder of Silverside AI “But not this one. Hypnovels define a new language, created specifically to attract people to books.”

In four simple steps, any author can create an animation and engaging multimedia experience that would normally take months of time and enormous creative resources. Authors simply enter text from a chapter, briefly describe the book’s setting, choose a visual style and narrator voice, and in just a few hours they can produce an engaging animation maintaining their unique vision–a Hypnovel that is ready and easy to share with current and untapped readers who likely wouldn’t otherwise know of their title.

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The idea for Hypnovels was born when Pereira used AI to promote his sci-fi novel, The Girl From Wudang. He realized the same format could be used with other books, if what he did was turned into a tool simple and flexible enough to tell different kinds of stories. “As an author and creative, I know the power of a beautiful visual to bring people into a story,” says Pereira. “Through AI, we could bring the same production value exclusive to big advertisers, into the hands of authors everywhere.”

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As we pushed the platform to imagine some of literature's greatest classics, Periera showed one to his son. He's neurodivergent—dyslexic with ADD—and despite his starving curiosity and incredible imagination, reading has always been a challenge for him. Bram Stoker's Dracula was the title Pereira picked, and used an anime-inspired visual to get his son curious. He copy/pasted the original first chapter, picked a few visual cues and left the rest to technology. A few hours later, they sat together in front of the screen and watched in awe as the words turned into a stream of images in front of our eyes. "That's such a cool book, Dad," his son said, "I think I want to read it."

The Hypnovels platform is a unique blend of AI and creativity, using several forms of AI combined into one: GPT4 for interpretation, Stable Diffusion for animation, Eleven Studios for voice, and multiple individually created artistic styles. But Hypnovels’ real value is the way these technologies are tuned to enhance the reader experience. “As an author, I want my readers to form their own images in their minds. The Hypnovels animations we generate are a companion that intensifies the experience,” says Pereira.

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