Now add audio to your Custom Post Types on WordPress
Now add audio to your Custom Post Types on WordPress Custom Post Types on WordPress. This will allows you to create categories of posts with customized structures. You would need these if you want to have pages on the site with a different structure than the default Posts and Pages. Being able to add audio to your Custom Post Types where the content in the post can be narrated using an AI Voice makes the post more accessible to users. After receiving multiple requests from users to be able to convert Custom Post Types to audio we are happy to introduce the feature where you can now add audio to…
Have AI Voices for your Articles & Blogs in your Prefered Languages & voices
“Don’t waste customers’ time asking them questions unless you are prepared to act on what they say.” Bruce Temkin And one thing Play.ht is determined to work on is customer feedback and review. Ever since our inception, we are focused on incorporating as many options and choices of Languages and Voices as we can to our users. Said so, Play.ht is happy to introduce our new set of voices across different languages. Arabic Bengali(India) Chinese Chinese (TW) Danish English (Indian) English (UK) Filipino French German Gujarati (India) Hindi Indonesian Kannada (India) Malayalam (India) Russian Tamil (India) Telugu (India) Thai (Thailand)
AI Voices – The Future Of Voiceover Audio
From the time Steve Jobs first unveiled the Macintosh that introduced itself with Text-to-Speech in 1984 to Google showcasing their voice assistant booking an appointment over a phone call during Google’s IO 2018, Voice technology, in particular, the speech synthesis technology has evolved with an unimaginable degree of realism that many tech giants believe AI Voices – The Future Of Voice-Over Audio Thanks to Machine Learning, perception of computer voices a.k.a Text-to-Speech voices to be robotic, monotonous and life-less have now been transformed into natural-sounding realistic voices. They are not only capable of mimicking human-like speech but can generate full-length near-perfect audio narrations. Listen to these samples for example – …
Amazon Polly VS Google Wavenet Text to Speech
In this post, we talk about and compare Text to Speech voices from the two forerunners. The leading providers of synthetic voices – Amazon and Google. Also, understand how one can get started using these voices for creating audio. Text to speech is a technology that allows computers to speak. You write text and the computer reads it out. Historically, the voices have always sounded very robotic and monotonous which made them generally not suitable for purposes other than for accessibility applications. But this is not the case anymore. The application of Machine Learning to Text-to-speech has transformed the way computers speak. Thus making the voices unbelievably realistic and opening…
How to Create a Podcast (of your articles on Medium.com)
Podcasts today, are a temple where listeners go to learn and grow. Over the years, Podcasts have evolved tremendously and today serve as a hub of seriously engaging content, specially in the Business, Motivation/Life-Coaching and News spaces. But, before we dive into ‘How to create a Podcast’, let’s first retrospect and analyze the ‘Why’… Did you know that Audio (majorly Podcasts and Audio books) today stands as the second highest form of content consumed online? According to recent research, the monthly Podcast listeners have grown from 17% to 32% year over year as of 2018, and are projected to only grow even more in the years to come. If you think…
How to Instantly Turn Your Medium Stories into Audio Podcasts
Did you know that over 2 million articles are written everyday? Yet, only a small fraction of them gain traction and attract readers. What’s even more interesting is the fact that out of the tiny fraction of readers, half of them will read the article for only 15 seconds or even less. On the other hand, Podcasts have been showing a steady rise in engagement. The reason is a little obvious, isn’t it? Podcasts simply offer a richer experience, subconsciously engaging the listener with a continuous stream of audio. And, that’s not the only reason. The truth is, listening is simply more convenient. Whether you are driving to work, going for a jog or…
