After signing up, 100 free words are credited into the user’s account.Ĭlick here to try play.ht for yourself, and generate audio using voices in different tones, ranging from formal to cheerful.
Although the platform requires users to sign up, a trial of the full version is available, allowing users to generate audio and control the speed at which the audio progresses. Using voices from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM, play.ht has become a TTS industry frontrunner. The Best AI Voice Generators We’ve Found So Far: 1. These generators are being used both as a form of assistive technology, to help people with learning difficulties such as dyslexia and ADHD, as well as by business and creators as the voiceover component of their video footage.Īnd it’s also used by artists to bring written works to life in new ways.ĪI voice generators also come with helpful controls and often allow users to control the rate at which the text is read and change the accent used. Skybolt will engage.AI voice generators use text-to-speech (TTS) technology, which reads text out loud in a human-like voice. Skybolt: "Skybolt is detecting incoming Seeker Drones. Knockout: "You! You ruined my finish! I'm going to tear you apart for that!" Ultra Magnus: "Autobots, it appears we failed to retake Cybertron." Ironhide: "Let's send 'em back to Cybertron as spare parts!" However, the energy is extremely unstable. Perceptor: "This crystal is emitting immeasurable quantities of esoteric energy. Megatron: "You have failed me for the last time, Starscream! Fortunately, I no longer have use for you. We must do all in our power to protect this planet as if we were forged here. Optimus Prime: "Autobots, Earth is our home now. This model is a bit buggy and prone to having what the Tacotron community calls "strokes," where the voice starts uttering gibberish until the audio clip ends.
It's trained on a modulated version of my own voice. This is pretty much a completely custom voice that I created for my main OC. Apparently, higher voices are easier for Tacotron2 to work with. Maybe that has to do with Bee having a higher voice. It still came out sounding pretty good for what it was given though. If only he didn't take that headshot in the 86 movie.īumblebee is my latest model, and it isn't trained on the most extensive of datasets. I likely have to weed out some weak audio from the dataset, which isn't an easy task when the dataset's already relatively small. Sadly, I have yet to actually create an improved Ironhide model. I did have a model on FakeYou as well, but it was taken down when I decided to try improving it. On both FakeYou and Uberduck, this is actually listed as a Robert Stack model, but it doubles as a G1 Magnus model. Said game's clips for Prime and Megatron were also used to train their models. It was a bit easier to get clean audio for him because of a YouTube channel with raw voice clips from the Wii U Transformers Prime game. What likely helped is his voice pitch, status as a less action-oriented supporting character, and extensive vocabulary. Perceptor is probably one of the best models so far, which is somewhat surprising given that I only had G1 cartoon audio to work with. This one also tends to skew a bit too monotone most of the time unless you use plenty of exclamation points. He's still a bit too monotone from time to time. He was the one who started this whole project. Optimus is actually on his third iteration. I suppose I should go ahead and start posting links to these voices before I get too carried away just typing about them. Thankfully, there was plenty of that for both Prime and Megatron, who were my first two voices. The best data is arguably raw voice clips from video games. Getting audio isn't too hard, but cleaning it up enough can be, especially for older media like G1. It just requires a lot of clean audio of the character speaking for the neural net to train on. The process was easier to learn than initially expected, as it involved no actual coding.
When that went nowhere, I decided to try making the voice myself. At first, I tried simply requesting that Optimus Prime be made as a voice. This is something I started back in September after discovering Uberduck.ai.