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…
Be ADA Compliant now! — with Play.ht
The primary goal of every blog or website is to provide information to people, but if the information is not easily accessible to everyone, then what is the point? Being ADA compliant can help you make sure the information on your blog or website meets the needs and is accessible to all your visitors. Did you know 13% of Americans age 12 and older have hearing loss? 26.9 million adults report they have vision loss. These people can’t see your product or service by viewing your website let alone read it’s contents. Around 19% of the people living in the United States are citizens with visual, auditory, and other physical limitations and disabilities.…
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…
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…
Could this be the most realistic Synthetic voice?
One of the technologies that have improved significantly in the last 2-3 years is Speech Synthesis technology, which is the process of generating spoken language by machine on the basis of written input. Thanks to Machine Learning and the openwork by DeepMind – a Google company, Synthetic voices are now capable of mimicking almost all the characteristics of a human voice so much so that they are almost indistinguishable. Amazon is one of the leading providers of Text to Speech technology with their Polly offering. They call it “Lifelike speech”, and they sure are making a great effort to keep up to it. Their latest update is the one called…
