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…
Use Microsoft’s Text to Speech Voices to create Natural Speech.
Anyone looking to create natural Text to Speech audio would obviously want the best and most realistic natural sounding voices. As a result, we have integrated all of Microsoft’s 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…
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. [playht_player width=”100%” height=”175″ voice=”Noah”] Listen to these…
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…
Are Audio Articles the next norm in content marketing?
How often do you find an article without the ubiquitous sharing options embedded in it? It would be rather odd if I’m unable to share an article I like. There’s a similar trend that’s been picking up recently. Embedding an audio version of the article, in the article along with its written text. The benefit of doing so is quite obvious. Firstly, you are providing another channel to consume the article which arguably is more convenient than reading. Secondly, It increases the reach, engagement and total time spent. But if providing an audio version is beneficial why are we seeing more and more publishers and bloggers embedding audio just recently?…
Can modern AI Voices replace professional voice over actors?
One area of technology that is seeing rapid development is the Text to Speech technology. The four tech giants – Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM along with a lot of other opensource projects are silently competing with each other to create better and more realistic voices. But are the Text to Speech voices replace the professional voice-over actors? Let’s find out. There are four key things one would consider while hiring a voice-over actor: 1. Quality of voice2.Cost3.Delivery time4.Commercial rights Let’s compare these things and understand why we say Text to Speech voices will replace voice over actors. Quality of AI Voice Early AI Voices The early Artificial Intelligence voices…
Can artificial voices be the next tool in a content-marketers toolbelt?
Artificial voices, also known as Synthetic or Text to Speech voices are computer-generated voices that have been around for a long time but have only recently become suitable for end consumers due to significant improvements in their quality. Hence we will be talking about how artificial voices be the next toolbelt in content marketers The application of Machine Learning has created voices that are so realistic, they are almost impossible to distinguish from a human voice, making them useful in a plethora of applications. To show you how real artificial voices have become, listen to these samples that we created – We wonder if these voices can be used to…
