With just a click of a button, text-to-speech can translate words on a digital device into human-sounding audio. Text-to-speech is a type of technology that reads digital text aloud. Good news: text-to-speech is here, and it is all these things and more.

Imagine that you could select from these voices and personalities the way that you would any other voiceover artist. The transitions sound natural, the inflections are oh-so-smooth, and the voice is upbeat, or sensible, or serious-your choice. Imagine a voice so lifelike that you honestly couldn’t tell whether it was, in fact, a human voice or an algorithm from the future. Now, you have to track down that same artist to swap out a few words and pay a few hundred bucks to do so, (That is, if you can even locate them to begin with.) It’s inefficient, it’s ineffective, and it’s a royal headache.įortunately (cue the computer trumpets) text-to-speech to the rescue. Then, even if you manage to find the right voiceover artist, you’re typically out of luck when content inevitably needs a refresh. Most companies are faced with either shelling out thousands of dollars to an agency for voiceover work, tracking down just the right voiceover artist, or finding an employee with a decent voice and buttering them up with enough caramel macchiatos that they’re willing to record a few lessons.

To make matters even more challenging, it can be difficult to find the right voice to bring your content to life. They have to take immense amounts of information-often of a complex or dry nature-and turn it into engaging, understandable, digestible nuggets that keep employee attention, reflect the brand in a positive light, and ensure employees actually understand what they’re watching or listening to. Download the eBook The Challenge Of L&D Pros: Making Magic Out Of Mayhem

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