AI voiceover recommendations

My company used PlayHT in the past. Their prices were reasonable, and had a wide selection of voices (including dialects). That was a couple of years ago. Im sure technology has improved since. We were using Lectora at the time which did not have a text to speech. Something I realized after looking at other applications, many are using the same voices. Articulate's stock voices have improved with the last update. However, there is a noticeable different.

Regardless of what software is being used, I still think its easy to hear when its AI talking. For shorter classes I use Voice.AI. It allows the user to speak in famous voices. Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, and William Shatner sound good.

We use Well Said Labs and have not had any issues.  They have introduced different languages this year. I have not used that as the contractor we use for all of our translations takes care of that for us.  I will explore Voice.AI I'd love to have James Earl Jones facilitate training. :-) 

Which are you referring to? The stock voices Articulate has? The last update brought a couple of additional options. The higher tier companies sound like they are all using the same sources for their AI.

A really nice free one is Microsoft Clipchamp. Many good voices and great settings to adjust the voice. I have used it on several projects. you will need to google how to open the text to speech. after that, very intuitive.

If you have an Azure subscription, then Microsoft's text-to-speech is one of the best I've tried. Their neural voices are amazing.

I appreciate all the recommendations and they are less expensive than play.ht- so I will definitely be checking them out. However, I would really appreciate a response from the Articulate crew about what they can do about Rise and how it adds all these extra characters. It seems to be a thing that has impacted people and their LMSs for a while now. They know this creates an issue no matter what tool is used. Articulate.....do you have a response?