In short
- An AI personalised book on Vivlary is a book whose story frame for every topic was written and checked by our team.
- The text of each book is written from that frame for your own people with the help of artificial intelligence, and checked automatically before the preview.
- The pictures are made with artificial intelligence from your photos: artistic likenesses, not photographs.
- The names are placed on the pages by our own software, so they are spelt exactly as you typed them.
An AI personalised book, as we make it on Vivlary, is a personalised book about your own people, made from their photos and their names. Our team writes and checks the frame of the story for every topic. Artificial intelligence helps write the text for your heroes and draws the pictures from your photos.
In an AI personalised book we do not hide the machine's part, and we do not oversell it. Below we explain which part people do, which part the machine does, and what you check yourself before you pay.
What does the AI do in an AI personalised book?
Two things. First, it helps write the text of each book from the frame of the topic, for the people you added: their names, the age group, how each one is related to the hero and what you want the story to leave behind. Second, it draws the pictures from photos you uploaded, in the style and colours you chose.
What it does not do is decide on its own what happens. An AI personalised book on Vivlary follows the frame our team wrote, with the tone and the rules for each age group. That is why we call the story personalised: the personal story of your people, built on a topic a person has worked on.
What do people do in an AI personalised book?
Our team writes and checks the frame of every topic: what happens, the tone, and the rules for each age group. The kindergarten teacher in our team reads and edits the frames of the children's and baby topics. She does not read every single book: she reads the frame each book is written from. That is the human part of every AI personalised book.
The myths and the classics, such as Homer's Odyssey or Carroll's Alice, are retold by our team gently, with nothing violent, with the child in the hero's place or beside the hero. The sample texts on the stories page were written by our team as the frames: they show the tone, not the final text of a book.
How is the text of a personalised book written?
You do not choose between a ready-made and a new story. You choose a topic, and the text of your book is written from the frame of that topic around your answers, so that it becomes the personal story of your own people. Before the preview, the text is checked automatically.
The words are placed on the pages by our own software, not by the machine that draws. So the names are spelt exactly as you typed them. In a Greek book, names are also declined correctly in the text, and the spelling you gave is never changed. In an AI personalised book this matters: one misspelt name spoils a whole page.
How are AI illustrations made from photos?
Pictures from photos, like all AI illustrations, are artistic likenesses, not photographs, so we do not promise they will match a face exactly. Every picture of a book is drawn in the same technique, and things that come back, a car, a house or a pet, keep one look on every page.
Your photos are used only to make your book, never to train artificial intelligence. They are checked on your own device before upload and deleted automatically. More in our photo promise.
- A pet is drawn from its own photos, as an animal and not as a person.
- In the topic "My drawing comes alive", the creature from the child's own drawing becomes a character of the story, drawn as the child drew it.
What do you check before you pay?
Before you pay, you see a free preview: the cover, the first three pages and two pages from the middle, with a watermark. For a printed book, you see the whole digital book and approve it before it is printed.
If there is still a mistake on our side, a typo, a grammar mistake, a wrong name or a faulty picture, we correct the book and issue it again free of charge. The details are in our guarantee. To see how an AI personalised book works in practice, start a book and look at the preview, with no commitment at all.
Frequently asked questions
Does artificial intelligence write the text?
The text of each book is written with the help of artificial intelligence, from the frame our team wrote and checked for the topic. It is checked automatically before the preview.
Are my photos used to train artificial intelligence?
No. They are used only to make your own book, never sold and never used in adverts.
Will the hero look like my child?
The pictures are artistic likenesses drawn from your photos, not photographs, so we cannot promise they will match exactly. You see the free preview before you decide.
Does a person read my own book?
The kindergarten teacher in our team reads the frames of the children's and baby topics, not every book. The text of your book is checked automatically, and you see the preview before you pay.