04-12-2021, 01:41 AM
I'm been messing around with some of the newer text to speech apps available and came across one that really stood out called Replica Studios.
https://replicastudios.com/
It's different from the others because it focuses on "dramatic actor" voice-overs.
It doesn't have a lot of character voices at the time, I'm guessing around 50 and half aren't that good. However, the good voices are the best I've found.
Replica Studios is also fairly expensive when compared to other text to speech apps, but it has a "pay as you go" structure that's reasonable IMO. You get 4 hours of text to voice for $24. Let's do the math:
That's $6 per hour of voice over. For a 10-minute video it's $1 and for a 1-minute video it's 10 cents.
There's both a web interface and WIN and MAC desktop apps you can download. Firefox wouldn't play the audio previews for me on the web version, but was OK using Chrome.
The software gives access to a few more features like the ability to select text and change the pitch and speed of the voice. The software needs WIN 10.
Some of the voices have different "moods" like angry, happy, wise, etc., so check for those first when you need "main characters".
You can also use Replica Studio voices as secondary characters in your videos. For example you want two people to talk on the phone (or with each other). Or use a dramatic voice to create a "SUBSCRIBE NOW!" stock audio clip. Because it's text to speech you can have it say pretty much anything you want, with respect to the usage terms.
Which brings us to...the terms. They have a pretty liberal usage license including royalty free commercial use, but do read it as there are multiple copyright issues concerned. One is your text/content and the other is the real person behind the voice-over and Replica. And you can't use voices in negative/harmful ways. But there's a LOT a creative entrepreneur can do with them in honest, ethical and legal ways.
A quick example of a couple of voices:
Here's an example with background sound efx:
This is an example of what can be done using an available Replica Studio plugin for a program called Unreal Engine (free):
https://youtu.be/oQx4SyM_iH4
https://replicastudios.com/
It's different from the others because it focuses on "dramatic actor" voice-overs.
It doesn't have a lot of character voices at the time, I'm guessing around 50 and half aren't that good. However, the good voices are the best I've found.
Replica Studios is also fairly expensive when compared to other text to speech apps, but it has a "pay as you go" structure that's reasonable IMO. You get 4 hours of text to voice for $24. Let's do the math:
That's $6 per hour of voice over. For a 10-minute video it's $1 and for a 1-minute video it's 10 cents.
There's both a web interface and WIN and MAC desktop apps you can download. Firefox wouldn't play the audio previews for me on the web version, but was OK using Chrome.
The software gives access to a few more features like the ability to select text and change the pitch and speed of the voice. The software needs WIN 10.
Some of the voices have different "moods" like angry, happy, wise, etc., so check for those first when you need "main characters".
You can also use Replica Studio voices as secondary characters in your videos. For example you want two people to talk on the phone (or with each other). Or use a dramatic voice to create a "SUBSCRIBE NOW!" stock audio clip. Because it's text to speech you can have it say pretty much anything you want, with respect to the usage terms.
Which brings us to...the terms. They have a pretty liberal usage license including royalty free commercial use, but do read it as there are multiple copyright issues concerned. One is your text/content and the other is the real person behind the voice-over and Replica. And you can't use voices in negative/harmful ways. But there's a LOT a creative entrepreneur can do with them in honest, ethical and legal ways.
A quick example of a couple of voices:
Here's an example with background sound efx:
This is an example of what can be done using an available Replica Studio plugin for a program called Unreal Engine (free):
https://youtu.be/oQx4SyM_iH4
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