I'm working on a small video project where I use video and sound effects from my editing software. There is also a text to speech feature. That I can use to create characters.
The only problem I have is I can't figure out a way to make my characters sound less robotic
Thanks, and have a nice day
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Text to speech is a joke. If you want to get a good feel, read all the lines out loud as if you're different actors.
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I've used several T2S software packages. None of them sound totally natural. I only use them to read my screenplay back to me and listen to how it sounds and for errors. Even in professional productions, most computer voices are still an actor playing the part. AI and synthesized voices are still not there yet.
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Don't ever expect to be able to use text to speech for anything other than exploration and roughing-in your dialog.
If you watch youtube, IG, tik tok - you see dozens and dozens of really hard to listen to cheapass adverts with auto-generated text to speech. It's accurate as far as words, it's hideous as far as human sounding. Even if you get one which one day sounds natural - people will remember the voice and it will become cliche within minutes - and you will appear silly using it.
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I'm disappointed that there is no software that can sound more human. I'm only using it because I can't afford to hire human actors.
My video is only going to be about three minutes long, so maybe it won't be that annoying and I won't appear as silly.
Thank you all and I hope you all give it a chance, when I post here on Stage 32. Have a nice day
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Writer Duet has a fantastic amount of voices- you can share it for another person to listen to or download. I have a Russian socialite, briefly in my pilot - and there was a voice for her.it was amazing.
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I've decided not to make a full video, but I'm going to try to make a trailer for one of my movies with me making my voice over debut.
Of course, I have a crippling fear of public speaking so it might not work out eithier.
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Wayne Cothron I have used my voice on alot of my productions from radio presenters to background guards. the trick is to keep going over each line. Replay your voice after a few takes and give yourself some simple directions to improve. keep going until you have something you can work with. Also dont try to put a voice on, unless you are trained the best voice is your own.
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I don't know whether this is still relevant, but you could try AI text-to-speech voices. They usually sound at least a little better than your regular text-to-speech. It will still probably sound like an audiobook at best, but if that's the style you are after, there are many websites and apps offering such services for you to find online. Just search for something like "AI text to speech" or "AI Voices". Many of them have fairly limited but free plans, just for the record...
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Not sure if this is relevant to your task, but I used "Speechelo" once (I believe that was it's name). The results were actually pretty ok. Not perfect, but surprisingly good from what I expected.
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Wayne Cothron if you feel shy of using your own voice, you might find it helps to use a voice changer? (there should be some option already on your software, otherwise Audacity or Wavepad).
I don't know whether it would suit your purpose, but there is also https://uberduck.ai/ text to speech which gives you a range of voices to choose from, based on actual people. Some are better than others (it's still ai generated after all) - but can be convincing in short bursts, with some editing together.
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Speechify is my favorite text to voice application. Recommend checking them out