KVR Audio

Markus Krause · Post by **Markus Krause** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 9:56 pm

I need some spoken texts for a tutorial video, but am too lazy to do an own recording.
Do you known websites where you can synthesize spoken text in good quality?

Thanks

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:14 pm

Murf.ai
Deep networks are exploding. Its like in the first days of the internet…

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:44 pm

None of them that are good quality will be free. Also, personally, I find that takes longer to write speech than to just perform it. To be clear, when it's something that I know what I'm talking about, it's usually less work to just outline the tutorial then record it live than to try and figure out exactly what I would say and type that up. You can just use read aloud in word to figure out what you want to say in your tutorial, it's not super realistic, but it's good enough to get you started.

jules99 · Post by **jules99** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:45 am

https://beta.elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesis

This right here gets you very convincing results.

Saffran · Post by **Saffran** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 4:15 am

Balabolka - https://balabolka.en.softonic.com/download

Dirk Diggler · Post by **Dirk Diggler** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:05 am

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/produ ... /#overview

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:15 am

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:31 am

Dirk Diggler wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:05 am https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/produ ... /#overview

'change the speed'

(not bad actually)

Aside from that, I wish I could remember where I put my notes/links on these things, and the stand-out ones I've found, to help you out. The newer AI modeling is really fascinating how far it (and the tech in general) has come in the past couple of years. I had one of those mellifluous/melodious "announcer" broadcaster voices from (like) age 13, and did many hundreds of radio/TV voice talent things way back, but having lost that (voice) for the most part, I've been considering recording my copy, and doing a voice-to-text, then text to voice using AI. It's worthwhile (and interesting) doing some research.

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:57 am

jules99 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:45 am https://beta.elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesis

This right here gets you very convincing results.

That's quite impressive, indeed. I can't post the mp3, but used this copy:

"I'd really like to explain this to you but I'm all out of chalk, and crayons" and the pronunciation, inflection, emphasis, tonality, etc were remarkable with several of the voices.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:08 am

Shabdahbriah wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:31 am I've been considering recording my copy, and doing a voice-to-text, then text to voice using AI. It's worthwhile (and interesting) doing some research.

voice to text.
google translate, from eng to chi to fre to ger to chi to eng.
text to speech.

Saffran · Post by **Saffran** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:22 am

Here's some more voices:
http://www.zero2000.com/free-text-to-sp ... oices.html

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:30 am

vurt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:08 am
Shabdahbriah wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:31 am I've been considering recording my copy, and doing a voice-to-text, then text to voice using AI. It's worthwhile (and interesting) doing some research.
voice to text.
google translate, from eng to chi to fre to ger to chi to eng.
text to speech.

That would be fun. I'm thinkin' more like Sadhguru does eurorack.

Alex_Longard · Post by **Alex_Longard** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:48 am

https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/ExtraVoices

List of voices.

Vortifex · Post by **Vortifex** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:52 pm

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech

gentleclockdivider · Post by **gentleclockdivider** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 4:29 pm

Markus Krause wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 9:56 pm I need some spoken texts for a tutorial video, but am too lazy to do an own recording.
Do you known websites where you can synthesize spoken text in good quality?

Thanks

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