OpenAI Voices Added to our Library 🎉

Exciting news! 🥳 We're delighted to unveil the latest additions to our diverse voice library – introducing the eagerly awaited OpenAI voices. Meet them under the names alloy, echo, fable, onyx, nova, and shimmer. These voices not only boast excellent prosody, pitch, and intonation but also offer multilingual capabilities, supporting a whopping 28 languages 😲 :

Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

❗Generate spoken audio in your preferred language by providing input text in the language of your choice. Note that while optimized for English, our voices perform admirably across most of the languages mentioned above❗

❕As responsible synthetic voice advocates, kindly ensure clear disclosure to end-users that the TTS voice is AI-generated and not a human voice❕

We value your feedback 💯 – share your thoughts with us!

 Docs update (GDPR and Reliability)

• We added some improvements showing our reliability and up time commitments - https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/reliability-and-slas
• We added some clarification of our GDPR commitments as well. This is available at the following link How AudioStack complies with GDPR

Introducing new Ultra-Realistic AI Voices from PlayHT!

We're thrilled to announce the addition of cutting-edge AI voices to our repertoire, crafted using next-generation speech technology by PlayHT. These voices bring a new level of human-like emotion to text-to-speech generation, providing an immersive and expressive experience. These voices are English with various accents: 🇺🇸 American, 🇬🇧 British, 🇦🇺 Australian and 🇨🇦Canadian. Explore the expressive range of these voices, each uniquely crafted to elevate your content across various formats. From advertisements, to podcasts to training videos, our new voices offer versatility and authenticity. Try them all out in our Library with another 1200 voices!

❤️ We're committed to providing you with the latest advancements in AI voice technology, we have more state of the art AI voices coming next week ❤️

Deprecation Notice 😢

Later this week three of our voices will be deprecated 😔 : Renata, Jollie, Matthew. If you rely on any of these voices for your audio creation, please make sure that you migrate to a new voice before the end of next week. You can find all available voices in our Library. Worry not, because we have more voices announced very soon, watch this space 💯

Platform - Workflows page updated

Our workflows enable you to create audio for your business use case.

You can try it out in Platform ! It's free to sign up 💯

AudioStack Essentials

These are the essential tools to start creating audio with audiostack

AdStack

A workflow designed for production of audio advertisements

You can see more at AdStack

There's plenty more coming soon this is just a taster - have a look at Platform

• The Javascript SDK has had a major update to include all of our latest API features. Check out the changes here: https://github.com/aflorithmic/audiostack-js/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md
• Easier sound design and voices browsing:
  • The Dictionary has been updated, and now allows you to search for voices;
  • You can browse sound designs directly in SonicSell.
• Platform updates:
  • You can now see private (cloned) voices in the new Platform;
  • You can now resubscribe to a previous plan; and,
  • Workflows page has been given a makeover.

You can now find our guide to generating a complete audio advert using AI, in the API Recipes sections of the docs. Check it out 🚀

You can also now annotate speech with timestamps, to generate transcripts or identify when certain words are spoken. Find out more ⏱️

Platform Launch

We spent months redesigning our enterprise-grade audio workflows.

Try it out here https://platform.audiostack.ai/ 💯

What can I do with this

• Turn text into beautiful audio ads in seconds with SonicSell

• Explore our diverse sound library

• Single Sign on - now sign in effortlessly with your Google account
• Explore our Voice Library with over 1300 voices!

• Dictionary - custom pronunciations for all AI voices
• Enterprise-grade admin and analytics functionality to control who has access to your data.
• Try it out here https://platform.audiostack.ai/ 💯

Lots more coming so please feel free to send us feedback to support[at]audiostack[dot]ai we're happy to partner with such great partners.

• We've updated our documentation to make it easier to find what you need to get started, and to clarify how the API is structured.
• We also added documentation on available SSML Tags: https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/ssml-tags
• Voice Cloner documentation has also been added: https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/ai-voice-cloner
• AdLocal documentation added: https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/adlocal

Remove Padding from Speech

Many of the voice providers in our library add padding to the end of speech files by default, so that sentences don't end too suddenly. There are some situations where users have reported needing to remove this padding so that they can specify a more precise, consistent amount of padding across different voices and providers. This is now possible using /speech/tts/remove_silence.

M4A Encoding

🔊 AudioStack now supports M4A encoding. Simply specify "m4a" as the preset to use this feature.

Javascript SDK Quickstart

We added a quick start guide to get Javascript developers up and running using our SDK. You can find it here.

If you have any feedback about our documentation or would like to request docs on specific workflows, please get in touch at [email protected].

 450 NEW VOICES ADDED 🎉

• We added 450+ new voices to the Voice Library
• Including some new voices such as Nivedita which is a Malayalam 🇮🇳 voice.
• We also added some new voices from 🇰🇷, 🇳🇴, 🇧🇷 and many more!
• You can check them out here https://library.audiostack.ai/
• Let us know at [email protected] what your favourite voice is for the chance to win a prize! 📥

Platform Improvements [beta]

We added AdLocal to the Beta in https://platform.audiostack.ai

This enables you to run localised national radio or podcast campaigns.

A screenshot of some of the options 💯

Bug Fix - Voice Intelligence layer

• Our customers reported a 🐛 where the dictionary was incorrectly updated, this turned out to be an edge case involving some ~being passed into one of our systems. Well done to the engineering team for hunting this one down, this was a hard one! 🎩
• We are constantly working on bug fixes and improvements to our systems.

Improved Incident Response Systems ⏰

• We invested heavily this week in improving our internal alerting systems - this is to further enhance our reliability. The improvements were rolled out this week 💯

 Voice Intelligence Layer Quality Enhancements

• We added 2500 tests to our continuous integration system, enhancing the quality of our product and the customer experience.

A Couple More Layered Sound Templates... [beta]

• We've made sound layering available for the following templates:ambient_electronica, eighties_chill
• These now have intense, soft and default intensity options. For more information about the layered sound template beta, see our previous ChangeLog post.