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How to reduce customer churn when it's more critical than ever
Customer churn is a major challenge faced by many SaaS companies. On average, SaaS companies lose 3-8% of their...
Customer churn is a major challenge faced by many SaaS companies. On average, SaaS companies lose 3-8% of their...
Perception sometimes lags behind reality. Case in point: text to speech (TTS).
Perception: Clunky, soulless, robotic...
We have entered the era of AI generated content. AsWayne Boulais, Co-Founder & Managing Director Tensility Venture...
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Perception sometimes lags behind reality. Case in point: text to speech (TTS).
Perception: Clunky, soulless, robotic readings that take anyone listening out of the conversation. Think Benny Benassi’s song, “Satisfaction.”
Reality: Modern text to...
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Writing text to speech scripts is a skill. One that requires practice, but also a clear understanding of the medium. What are the benefits and limitations of text to speech? What makes it different from other kinds of informational scripts and documents?
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“This is CNN.”
“AFFLACK!”
There are some slogans we just automatically hear in our heads even while reading. Like the above with the voices of James Earl Jones and Gilbert Godfrey, respectively. That's how strong the right voice for your brand can be.
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Can you tell the difference between a human voice actor and a synthetic voice using text-to-speech technology? Before you answer, you’ll want to listen to some of the samples we’ve included and see what you think.
Hint: It’s harder than you think.
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The new Netflix documentary profiling Andy Warhol features an AI voice reading his diary. It’s almost spooky how life-like and realistic the synthetic voice sounds.
Another documentary film, RoadRunner, faced ethics complaints in its telling of the life...
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A few short years ago, text to speech in B2B was more of a novelty. It has now become a necessity. In keeping pace with generating training and business videos, text to speech is a crucial component to scale production and automate content delivery.
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Our big bet when we started Videate was that text to speech (TTS) would keep getting better, eventually becoming indistinguishable from human speech.
This founding principle drove us to keep chipping away at other aspects of the problem: like making an...
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As we have said many times, the “space race” for text to speech (TTS) technology keeps accelerating. One of the primary advancements is the introduction of neural voices, which has replaced the original generation of voices that many people felt were too...