Yes, I tried it. They basically give you the same voices (sounds like Amazon Polly). And then everything is an upsell to premium offerings.
The promise of their videos is nowhere close to the reality of what it produces, at least not without adding stacks up premium upgrades. I suspect the good voices are mostly the neural voices.
You'd be better off getting an Amazon account and creating the Polly neural voices.
This is a post I did on using Polly back in 2017 before they had neural voices, but the process is the same and it's all relatively inexpensive.
I'm looking for some good interactive ideas on designing and developing a Human Trafficking course. Any ideas you would like to share would be of great help!
Yes, I agree with Tom. I gave Speechelo a close look, and watched the reviews on Youtube. I have been using speech-to-text fairly frequently in the past few elearning projects. I have another similar account with upsells, etc. However, I tend mostly use Amazon Polly. It is fairly basic but works well, and for me is very affordable.
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Yes, I tried it. They basically give you the same voices (sounds like Amazon Polly). And then everything is an upsell to premium offerings.
The promise of their videos is nowhere close to the reality of what it produces, at least not without adding stacks up premium upgrades. I suspect the good voices are mostly the neural voices.
You'd be better off getting an Amazon account and creating the Polly neural voices.
This is a post I did on using Polly back in 2017 before they had neural voices, but the process is the same and it's all relatively inexpensive.
https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/amazon-free-text-speech/
Hi,
I'm looking for some good interactive ideas on designing and developing a Human Trafficking course. Any ideas you would like to share would be of great help!
Thank you!
Gina
Hi John,
Yes, I agree with Tom. I gave Speechelo a close look, and watched the reviews on Youtube. I have been using speech-to-text fairly frequently in the past few elearning projects. I have another similar account with upsells, etc. However, I tend mostly use Amazon Polly. It is fairly basic but works well, and for me is very affordable.
Russ
@Gina you'll probably get better response by creating a separate thread with your question. It's just going to get buried in this one.
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