Voice Over Talent
Oct 27, 2015
Hello -
My company has been recording voice over talent in house for the past 5-6 years, and it's becoming difficult to find employees that are always available and have the right voice.
Rather than paying $600+ to outsource, we're first interested in an automated, cheaper option. Does anyone have any recommendations that aren't too robotic sounding?
Thanks!
Ashley
5 Replies
I used to own a version of Captivate for this exact reason and used a higher quality realistic voice from Neo Speech. I now record my own VO for rapid dev using a Shure USB mic and Audacity.
Try this Ashely:
http://neospeech.com/tts-cloud-service
Most of clients freak when they hear the robot, even though we're using it for Beta delivery.
I know this is an older post. Our company uses Neospeech for some of our eLearning modules. We've been using it for more than a year. Depending on how you write the script, you can make it sound more natural.
Hello,
I found the following references in another forum but haven't have time to test them all
https://aws.amazon.com/es/polly/ (This one still sounds quite robotic to me)
https://www.nuance.com/omni-channel-customer-engagement/loquendo-small-business-bundle.html
http://www.acapela-group.com/
I also noticed that Microsoft have released this service too
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/samples/cognitive-speech-tts/
BTW how do you insert into your Articulate content a voice narration created by an external source?
I'm now using InfoVox for beta modules.
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