Blog Text to Speech: Convert Your Articles to Audio
Publishing your passions your way, while sharing your knowledge, and experiences with over a million people online is what blogging is all about. But we’re not here to talk about what a blog is. It’s all about that Blog Text to Speech. Text to speech solutions have been available for over a decade, yet not many people have been keen on using it. Why? No education. People don’t know much about it, and why it’s good. Now put those mommy pants on, get that shot of espresso, and be the couch potato you are! Let’s take you to on a textual journey of Blogging, and text to speech. What is…
Audio Articles: Make your Journalism accessible in Audio.
Text-to-Audio or click-to-listen story formats have been available for over a decade. Adding to that, there is a sudden rise in audio listeners, and innovations in audio technology. This has given opportunity to a new form of content — Audio Articles. What are Audio Articles? It’s no rocket science. Like the name suggests, Audio Articles are articles, in audio format. Audio Articles mean, every article posted on your website is converted into an audio stream. They can be played back at the click of a button. Therefore, you can let your readers to listen to their favorite content in places they couldn’t! — at the gym, on the road, or…
Custom Pronunciation! Now with Play.ht!
The world we live in is huge, consisting of over 190+ countries, and over 7.8 billion people. It’s a fact that not all of them speak the same language, and each of them have a different pronunciation. In a world where new words are coined every single day, and where most of us get our knowledge from Urban Dictionary, it’s natural to have the need for custom pronunciation, especially when you’re looking to convert your text to speech online. Take the word “GIF” for example. It’s been a debate for CENTURIES, just kidding, but you get the gist wink wink. We at Play.ht understand your pain, which made our developers…
Different text to speech Speaking Styles! Now on Play.ht!
Are you looking to spice up your text to speech experience? Do you wish to change how your audio sounds, from the monotonous voice you’ve been using until now? Well look no further! With Play.ht, you can now change the speaking styles of your text to speech voices as per your need. When people speak, they use different speaking styles depending on context. When you’re with a group of friends, your tone and style change from a regular to a more cheerful and conversational one. With the latest advancements in speech synthesis technology, you can now do just this, with AI Voices. Incorporating all the speaking styles from Amazon Polly,…
The Best Text to Speech English Voices of 2020
“Louis Vuitton or Gucci?”, “Nike or Adidas, wait…Puma maybe?”. Choosing between brands is super hard. Let alone, when you’re trying to convert your text to speech, and you’re not sure which is the best text to speech English voice, from an ever-growing list of AI Voices. For example, take our website into account. At Play.ht, we have over 260+ high-quality realistic Text to Speech AI voices from Google, Amazon Polly, IBM, and Microsoft. Just thinking about choosing from over 260+ voices, can give you a headache. Well, Prada, Louis Vuitton, or Gucci we can’t say, but when it comes to choosing the best English voices for your audio files, we’ve…
Microsoft Text to Speech: Now create Natural sounding Audio
Anyone looking to create natural Text to Speech audio would want the best and most realistic natural sounding voices. As a result, we have integrated all of Microsoft text to speech voices in Play.ht so you can have access to the best voices and features from Microsoft, enabling you to create natural sounding audio. Play.ht also leverages the best text to speech voices from Google Wavenet, Amazon Polly, and IBM Watson, but today, it’s all about the new Text to Speech voices from Microsoft. Create your first audio using Microsoft’s voices here – Play.ht Dashboard Firstly, Microsoft offers a comprehensive family of Natural Text to Speech voices as part of…
How to use multiple Text to Speech voices in the same Audio.
That’s right! If you’ve been unaware till now, Play.ht has an amazing feature which allows you to use multiple text to speech voices in the same Audio file you wish to create. Without further ado, let’s get right into the “HOW”. You can start off by clicking on “Create New Audio” on your Play.ht dashboard. Next, select the “From text” option to open your text editor. Let’s start typing! Type in your desired text, or paragraph. Here’s where it gets interesting! To add multiple voices, or a new voice in the same Audio, click on the ‘ + ‘ symbol beside the play button. Once you do, you’ll see a…
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…
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…
