IBM Text To Speech (TTS)
Bring your ideas to life with natural sounding voices.
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This API is best for creating custom audio from text and also for adding natural sounding voices to applications.
A developer should use this API because it allows users the ability to use a simple API to make a text-to-speech converter. It also allows developers to use natural sounding voices to add life to applications. Furthermore, the custom voices allow users to further customize the output, and the SSML support makes it easy to control the output. Lastly, the durability and sample audio playback make it easier to use than other alternatives.
Key features
- Automatic language detection
- customizable voices and output
- expanded SSML support
- sample audio playback
- and durability.
Potential use cases
- Education 4.0 Platform: A platform for lifelong learning which can generate life-like voices for its educational content, with IBM TTS providing natural intonations that make learning more engaging and fun.
- Virtual Personal Assistants: An AI powered virtual personal assistant app with a lifelike virtual avatar, powered by the IBM TTS API to create audio cues that are natural sounding and immersive.
- AI-based Chatbot: An AI-based chatbot platform integrated with the IBM TTS API allowing users to interface with the chatbot using natural sounding voices.
Using IBM TTS was a great experience. The quality of the output was great, and with the custom languages, I was able to more accurately portray the feelings I wanted. Highly recommend.
Related Technologies
- Google Text-to-Speech
- AWS Polly
- Microsoft Speech Synthesis
- Watson Speech Services