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AI Voice Changed Accent
Hello,
I have been using the same Australian voice in my Rise 360 content since earlier this year.
Australian Steve was perfect in every way. But now when I attempt to generate speech from a block of text, Steve somehow comes out sounding like American Steve.
The settings are 100% identical in each case, yet one generates as American and one as Australian which is the one I want to use.
Has anyone experienced anything similar and know how to fix it so my Aussie Steve can talk through the slides to my audience?
I have attached some screenshots and a short screen recording showing the issue I am having and the changes of accents.
Any advice appreciated :) Thank you!
All fine, worked as expected.Australian Steve became American Steve.
Hello AnneLanaway,
I understand you're using AI TTS Audio with Australian Steve's voice in Rise 360, and it doesn't sound as expected. I can confirm that we have this behavior logged with our team. Happy to learn more about your specific setup!
- Do you experience this change with any other voices or just Australian Steve?
- Is this happening in more than one course, or just this one?
I noticed in your screenshot that you are using model v3 when generating audio. As a troubleshooting step, you can select an earlier version each time you generate audio.
Here’s how:
- Open the AI text-to-speech window.
- Advanced settings.
- Next to Model, select Multilingual v2.
- Select Generate to preview the voice again.
Here's a quick visual of my experience when changing models!
Please let me know if this resolves the issue, and if you have any questions!
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Hello AnneLanaway,
I understand you're using AI TTS Audio with Australian Steve's voice in Rise 360, and it doesn't sound as expected. I can confirm that we have this behavior logged with our team. Happy to learn more about your specific setup!
- Do you experience this change with any other voices or just Australian Steve?
- Is this happening in more than one course, or just this one?
I noticed in your screenshot that you are using model v3 when generating audio. As a troubleshooting step, you can select an earlier version each time you generate audio.
Here’s how:
- Open the AI text-to-speech window.
- Advanced settings.
- Next to Model, select Multilingual v2.
- Select Generate to preview the voice again.
Here's a quick visual of my experience when changing models!
Please let me know if this resolves the issue, and if you have any questions!
Thanks for the response and advice.
It does occur with several of the Australian accent voices. I have tried Dee - Australian, Hannah the natural Australian voice, Lee Middle-Aged Australian Male and Paul - Australian Professional Presenter. The accents vary from American to British in v3.
It seems to be happening within any course created recently.
I have tried the steps you demonstrated, and this has worked, but I do need to tweak some of the script to get him to sound as good as v3. I make adjustments to the style exaggeration and speed and once I tweak those, it's almost perfect :)
He seems to struggle with bullet points and quotation marks haha - but it works!!
Thank you so much!!
Hello AnneLanaway,
You're welcome! Appreciate you following up and sharing your experience. Glad that switching to v2 has provided you with more consistency.
I've passed along your insight to our product team so they're aware of the bullet point and quotation mark behavior, as well as your experience with the Australian accent voices. We'll share any future updates in this thread, so all are in the loop!
Hi AnneLanaway,
I know you've already marked this resolved, but I wanted to chime in with some tips that have helped me.
- Anchor a statement in the beginning of the script that is unmistakably Australian such as "G'day mate!".
- Use Australian vocabulary when possible.
- Avoid words that are strongly American or British.
- Avoid sounding overly formal, try a more relaxed and conversation tone instead.
- Increase the Stability setting.
Hope this helps!
~ Frankie
Thank you so much for those tips, Frankie!
I am going to play around some more with it today and I shall report back!
Thanks for the tip. I tried a few things, but adding "G'day mate, Australian Paul here." forced the correct results for me when using "Paul - Australian Professional Presenter" for anybody else struggling with this.
Thanks for these tips - we have noticed this as well. I used the anchoring phrase "Kia ora bro" for our New Zealand voices, and it worked. New Zealand Max reverted back to his correct accent for us.
Does anyone have tips on a reliable V3 Australian accent for eLearning text to speech narration?
I used to use Lee Middle Aged Australian Male, but his accent changes to English in V3.
I have just completed a couple of projects using Paul (Australian) and, in the end, defaulted to starting all of his audio with "G'day, Australian Paul here. [actual content here]" and then editing the audio to remove "G'day, Australian Paul here".
It reliably stopped Paul veering into an English accent. You just have to remember to generate captions after you have trimmed off the "G'day…". Its a pain and a significant extra task (adds time to your dev), but I just got into the habit of doing it to all audio so I didn't have to worry about any English accent slipping through.
Another tip I have, especially for shorted AI text-to-speech conversions is to add [break time="0.25"] to the end of the text-to-speech text. This prevented a frequent issue I had with an audible pop/click at the end of the spoken audio. I would just trim the silent audio if necessary.
