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…
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 – …
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…
Increasing user engagement with Text to Speech – Case Study by Play.ht
We analyzed over 5000 articles with Text to Speech audio versions and studied their impact on user engagement. If you look at the user behavior for consuming content over the past few years, audio consumption has grown exponentially. And for good reasons. Audio is easy to consume, effortless to grasp, and information consumed is retained for longer. Also, the convenience of listening over reading. If audio is such a powerful medium, is there a way to apply some of it’s the power to written content? Enter audio articles — the gap between text and audio Simply put, audio articles are audio versions of written articles. They’re a way to transform…