Thanks a lot - really appreciate your feedback and praise. Will keep it up!

​@@RuedRiisCom jj hb

If I pay for the license I will use it for whatever I want

A good general rule of thumb is that if you create unique content, you're probably on the safe side. But, if you take some article and push it through a TTS engine, then publish it as a UKposts video, that will be seen as unoriginal or duplicate content-and no one likes that, neither humans nor algorithms.

@@RuedRiisCom No, what he's talking about is not copyright-related. Take channel Radio TSS as an example. He used NaturalReader's Matthew (Plus) voice with a commercial license. Their Personal Plus license is $110/year while their Commercial Single Plan (single-user), granted, is far more advanced with inflection, timing, and whatnot, but it’s still a whopping $588/year. Their so-called Premium voices that make the free MS Edge ones sound more like Elvis and Celine Dion by comparison, are garbage and only marginally less “Oh God, please turn it off!” quality than their free ones, so if I were to pick their stuff, it would have to be their Personal Plus, but even if audio wasn’t an issue as described, for some ridiculous reason you need the Plus plan to get even just one Danish voice. Not Swedish, mind you; they have a “Premium” version of that, despite them being only 10.5 M, and we’re 5.9 M, but we’re just as fresh out of luck as our Norwegian brethren. I just briefly checked out Speechify and will look into them some more and compare them to NaturalReader, and whatever else I can find, but both these two companies’ female voices are way worse than the male ones, as a rule. Since deeper male voices seem to sound more real instead of that screechy pitch reminding me of 80s hip-hop, I assume it’s the high pitch causing problems. Have you ever tried NaturalReader or know of someone who uses it and does so fondly? I'm only looking at this whole thing because I'm so done with Edge. It freezes every few hours on both my higher-end 32GB laptop and my $2,000 64GB desktop. Edge even has cool stuff, like a handful of African countries' accents for English. *Below is from their FAQ section* _about Personal vs. Commercial use_ NaturalReader Commercial is the only one of our products that allows you to use its software and voices for commercial or public use. This includes, but is not limited, to: UKposts videos, public announcements, broadcasts, and e-Learning. The non-commercial versions (Personal, Professional, and Ultimate) are for personal use only. These versions and their voices cannot be used for any public or commercial purposes.

You can send old audio/videos of you and they can recreate your voice. Pretty cool!

What a thoughtful comment, thank you!

Thank you so much! 🙏

Balabolka

I WILL now ! 👌🏻🤗

Thanks, that's great input. I was quite impressed as well 👌🏻 Yes, there's a cost, but if you have your job pay for it, or a client, I guess it's fine :)

I tried 11labs but you lose your allowance of characters if you need to re-generate the audio, which obviously you’ll need to do to hear if you need to change anything, it’s a bit of a bummer because their voices are really good. With Murf are there any restrictions like this? I know it says 4 hours of voice generation per month which is fine but I don’t want to sign up and find the same issue lol

Does it support the Arabic language 🤔

You're welcome :)

Haha, I know - we just moved, and there was no furniture in the room. And, I didn't have a Denoise plugin installed yet, so all good things are coming in future videos :)

Thanks 🙏

You're welcome 🤗

Thank you 🎉

I'd say give them a try and find the one that a) has those languages and work well with them and b) have voices in those languages you like.

Offline support? :) Never heard of that since "Clippy".

Vyond is great for a lot of things but not for editing a full video that combines live footage recorded on a camera, screen recording, etc. What I've used to edit this video is called Screenflow and is basically screen recording software for Mac. Although over the last couple of years they've really made huge improvements in their user interface and now I use it to create all my UKposts videos.

@@RuedRiisCom thanks! Ive checked out descript, as you have mentioned that in the Video. They now have a storyboard feature. You should really check it out. I'd Like to hear your feedback on that, if it can deliver what it promesis. ☺️

Gotta check out all the honorable mentions here in the comments :)

Descript - Synthesia uses their voices for some things. And I believe it’s becoming a standards to have API for TTS software so good times ahead :)

Sure :)

Yes, that's true. But at least you can get a taste for free and decide if it's worth the money.

I'll have to check that out for sure 👌🏻

Maybe Speechify is what you’re after then? (Or audiobooks 🤗)

@@RuedRiisCom i did try that but its not really working for me. i am looking for text to speach to read out fanfics for me so saadly audibooks arnt an option.

I’ve thought about building it for sure! Only super bad ones exist.

How for kids? All of them are quite easy to use. ElevenLabs is one of the simplest and best I think. Try that 🤗

I'm interested in trying Open AI's text to speech - Whisper - but it's not very accessible when it's only API based.. I'm not techy enough at least :)

Mak yak menu chack!

Few text readers have extreme capabilities, AI is still very new, most will sound "artificial" literally.

Yes, I'll have to do a follow up; there are so many out there 🚀

Google's is pretty good and far cheaper than most of the other products. You can also adjust the ptich of voices.

Natural Reader is $600/year. Fuck them.

That would be cool yes :)

That´s true. I used to work with several of them back in that time, around 2003. They are presenting now as a new invention from AI.

. I used to use one that was probably pretty rudimentary for 2023, but it knew how to intonate questions, unfortunately it stopped working in Windows 10.

I’ll have to check it out!

Yes, Speechify as suggested in the video 🤗

@@RuedRiisCom ok thanks brother ❤️🤗

not happening brother in speechify

It is though. You can use it completely for free, but of course, there are perks when upgrading.

Not really. Most is cloud based.

@@RuedRiisCom The "subscription" craze is turning out to be a way to suck more money out of people...I'm getting tired of it popping up everywhere...more and more companies are jumping on the money-sucking craze that cloud-based services opened the door to...

​@@TL2LThere are some, but they're not natural. Balabolka is one example, but it doesn't come close to the vast majority that are neural today, but it does help with texts.

Is it true? I’ve heard this a couple of times - that the “core” is made by someone else and these startups “wrap” those in nice interface. But that’s also worth something!

@@RuedRiisCom yep…. Looks like it!

Really ?! 👀

Okay, I guess it's not for everyone, then.

Crazy how my worst sounding voice ever is the best performing video 🤗🎉

Not perfect, no.. but improving!

I liked the old readers, they bring me nostalgia.

I agree with every word you said 👌🏻

They all lack inflection. There was one that did get pretty close and is called Sonantic. But Spotify bought the company and isn't making the service available to anyone.

@@SnoopyDoofie: Yes, and they cannot, for example, contrast two things, such as when we say, "On the one hand, we have THIS, but on the other hand, we have THAT!" And this kind of non-verbal communication, which I believe is at the heart of what you're calling 'inflection,' can only come from a comprehension of the concepts that *underlie* the words, which is far more than the mere words themselves. This is why good voiceovers really are voice ACTORS. Even in eLearning, you're playing the character of an expert in a field who is helping a trainee understand something complex and mostly unintuitive.

@@eclexian It's just a matter of time though before TTS will be human like. Just take a look at how incredible ChatGPT has come within just two years. I think that within the next 3 years this will be realized since so many are working on it.

@@SnoopyDoofie I respectfully disagree, but-time will tell! Have a good day!

Which one is available?

​@@muhammadasiffarooqi7672Balabolka but he doesn't have an AI voice, it's too rudimentary for today.

Good point - thanks for sharing 🙌🏻

Sure, as I say at the end of this video: Use them for the productivity they offer - even though they aren't as good as real voice-overs.

Are you deaf? LOL

Yes, shoot me an email if you want to collaborate :)

It is for sure an interesting platform, and one I have to review at some point 👌🏻