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Hm, is it good in all languages? Russian sounds very robotic.

lharries 1y ago
It's a research preview for now but it should work well in 70+ languages. Voices make a big difference, can you try with a few Russian IVCs?
GrayShade 1y ago
Romanian sounds awful too, like the TTSes from 15 years ago.
- lharries 1y ago
  can you try with a Romanian voice?
  - GrayShade 1y ago
    I'm not sure what you mean. I chose Romanian from the language selector and tried Matilda, Alice and Laura. Laura actually sounds like an English TTS trying to pronounce Romanian.
    - gozzoo 1y ago
      Exactly the same thing with Bulgarian voices.
      - lharries 1y ago
        It should work well for the logged in voices here: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?language=ro https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?language=ro We are in the process of updated the homepage voices for the new languages
        GrayShade 1y ago
        It does, indeed. Thanks for looking into it.
NewMountain 1y ago
There's something very wrong with the Russian one. The first example "Jessica | Tell History", is British woman speaking British English transliterated from Russian. It's absolute murder of the Russian language and painful to listen to. The second example "Jessica | Record a commercial" is perfect. Confidence restored. The third example "Laura | Help a client" is back to glass in your ears. This time an American is speaking American English transliterated from Russian. Yikes. The English sounded fine, but the Russian has serious issues. Either there's a bug in your configuration (I hope) or your evals for Russian are unsound. Edit: dial back the editorializing.
spartanatreyu 1y ago
Just two weeks ago we tried Russian on v2 for a quick kids medical education video. About 1/4 prompt samples wouldn't work but instead did one of the following: - Put a random long pause somewhere in the clip and play the other syllables at 10x speed with the remaining space left in the clip - Stop reading the prompt and start talking in literal simlish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4nfveKW5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4nfveKW5s - Screaming, as in full goat screaming. Not even our resident AI evangelists could defend that one.
agos 1y ago
I tried Italian and Greek and the examples range from "acceptable" to "lol wtf"

It's a research preview for now but it should work well in 70+ languages. Voices make a big difference, can you try with a few Russian IVCs?

GrayShade 1y ago

Romanian sounds awful too, like the TTSes from 15 years ago.

lharries 1y ago
can you try with a Romanian voice?
- GrayShade 1y ago
  I'm not sure what you mean. I chose Romanian from the language selector and tried Matilda, Alice and Laura. Laura actually sounds like an English TTS trying to pronounce Romanian.
  - gozzoo 1y ago
    Exactly the same thing with Bulgarian voices.
    - lharries 1y ago
      It should work well for the logged in voices here: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?language=ro https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?language=ro We are in the process of updated the homepage voices for the new languages
      - GrayShade 1y ago
        It does, indeed. Thanks for looking into it.

NewMountain 1y ago

There's something very wrong with the Russian one. The first example "Jessica | Tell History", is British woman speaking British English transliterated from Russian. It's absolute murder of the Russian language and painful to listen to. The second example "Jessica | Record a commercial" is perfect. Confidence restored. The third example "Laura | Help a client" is back to glass in your ears. This time an American is speaking American English transliterated from Russian. Yikes. The English sounded fine, but the Russian has serious issues. Either there's a bug in your configuration (I hope) or your evals for Russian are unsound. Edit: dial back the editorializing.

spartanatreyu 1y ago

Just two weeks ago we tried Russian on v2 for a quick kids medical education video. About 1/4 prompt samples wouldn't work but instead did one of the following: - Put a random long pause somewhere in the clip and play the other syllables at 10x speed with the remaining space left in the clip - Stop reading the prompt and start talking in literal simlish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4nfveKW5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW4nfveKW5s - Screaming, as in full goat screaming. Not even our resident AI evangelists could defend that one.

agos 1y ago

I tried Italian and Greek and the examples range from "acceptable" to "lol wtf"