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English sounds really great, congrats! other languages I've tried doesn't sound that good, you can hear a strong english accent

• dustincoates 1y ago
  The French one sounded like an Alabaman who took a semester of college French. But the English sounds really good.
  • lharries 1y ago
    If you're trying to make an audiobook about an Alabaman visiting Paris this might be quite useful... But in seriousness try it with this voice: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?voiceId=rbFGGoDXFHtVghjHuS3E https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?voiceId=rbFGGoDXFHtV...
    • dustincoates 1y ago
      I'll give it a check. I was playing the sample on the v3 page.
• lharries 1y ago
  Can you try with a voice that was trained on that language? This research preview is more variable based on the voice chosen
• k__ 1y ago
  German sounds okay.
  • lharries 1y ago
    There's lots of great german voices here which should be better: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library/collections/SHEPnUB9fOVkgNfheMfX https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library/collections/SHEPnUB9... The voice selection matters a lot for this research preview
  • shafyy 1y ago
    I tried German in the preview box there, and it had a very strong English accent.
    • k__ 1y ago
      I listened to a story about dragons. It sounded okay. Only in the middle somewhere, the loudness seemed to change drastically.
  • torginus 1y ago
    Not a native speaker by any stretch, but all the voices sounded like 'intercom announcer' or 'phone assistant' to me. Not natural in the slightest.
• 8f2ab37a-ed6c 1y ago
  With Italian, it starts reading the text with an absolutely comical American accent, but then about 10-20 words in it gradually snaps into a natural Italian pronunciation and it sounds fantastic from that point on. Not sure what's going on behind the scenes, but it sounds like it starts with an en-us baseline and then somehow zones in on the one you specified. Using Alice.
  • agos 1y ago
    the Italian example with mixed languages is especially bad: the Italian, German Japanese and Arabic all have very very heavy english accents. The "dramatic movie scene" ends up being comical I tried Greek and it started speaking nonsense in english this needs a lot more work to be sold
• pu_pe 1y ago
  For Portuguese, interestingly enough one of the voices (Liam) has a Spanish accent. Also, the language flag is from Portugal, but the style is clearly Brazilian Portuguese.
• poly2it 1y ago
  Swedish is just wholly American.