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If you have any coding knowledge, you can get similar-quality voices for much cheaper from Azure, Google, AWS and IBM Watson. Azure gives you 500k characters fo
by miki123211 4y ago
If you have any coding knowledge, you can get similar-quality voices for much cheaper from Azure, Google, AWS and IBM Watson. Azure gives you 500k characters for free per month, and then it's $16 per one million characters, paid per character. If you're using this to generate voice overs / videos, these rates are so low that you can basically forget about them existing.
You have to use the API, but if that's fine with you, it's definitely worth it.
- vlugorilla 4y agoCan you elaborate on how could one achieve this? I have knowledge about Python and Golang.
- zackkatz 4y agoHere are the docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/s...
- liminalsunset 4y agoYou don't need coding to use Azure. Look up "Azure Audio Content Creation", which is a web-based application hosted by Microsoft that can be used to generate audio using a GUI. There is some rather annoying process to setup an account with resource groups etc required but it does give you 500k free characters, or you can just abuse the free demo applet on the website without signing in (may need to clear cookies and reload once in a while), and just tape the audio that comes out. I had very good luck with some of the Azure voices to create a YouTube video. My favourite right now is Sara (US English), because in testing she sounds the most emotionally natural. Interestingly, if you choose a voice from another language, and ask it to speak English, sometimes it will replicate a non-native accent, which I found somewhat amusing