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NPR collaboration with WellSaid Labs to create custom AI voice of Planet Money host, Robert Smith

WellSaid Labs Creates NPR’s First AI Podcast Episode

June 6, 2023

In a three-part series by NPR’s Planet Money, Kenny Malone and Jeff Guo explored the ability of Artificial Intelligence to produce an entire podcast. They started with scripts from OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus, but they needed a voice. To create the most realistic AI voice possible, they turned to WellSaid Labs.

Here at WellSaid Labs, we knew we were taking on more than just creating a synthetic voice implementing our proprietary Generative AI technology. This was an opportunity to share with Planet Money’s audience why and how WellSaid builds and publishes AI voices deliberately and responsibly. To us, this is not a toy or a trivial game of memes.

Five9 and WellSaid: Creating a Custom AI Voice Avatar

March 10, 2023

When customer support giant Five9 needed a lifelike custom AI voice, they turned to WellSaid. The steps to building their voice avatar from a real human is a fascinating process. Watch this video about how WellSaid experts go about this creation.

Voiceover Script: How to Do It Right

January 5, 2023

Behind every great voiceover is a great script.

High-quality voiceover scripts help voiceover actors (or text-to-speech platforms, wink wink) identify where to add inflections, emphasis, and pauses to make a voiceover easy to follow and enjoyable to listen to. Well-written voiceover scripts make content more digestible, help an audience better retain information, and reflect a brand in a more professional light.

When writing voiceover scripts, there are a few things to keep in mind to connect with your listeners and create a high-quality voiceover. In this blog post, learn what to do—and what not to do—when crafting your voiceover script.

Webinar Replay: Improving Healthcare Information with Voice

October 7, 2022

We all know that we retain information better when it is presented in a variety of formats. But, how exactly can voice enhance that experience?

Risa Arin is an expert in customer experience and sits down with us to discuss how she supercharges information retention for cancer patients with WellSaid Voice Avatars.

New Voice Avatar Release: Meet 4 New WellSaid Voices

September 30, 2022

Every new Voice Avatar release at WellSaid labs is a carefully crafted response to the needs of our customers and their listeners. New accents, new styles, more representation, the Voice Avatar library in Studio is an ever-evolving reflection of the listening audience.

While that is true of every Voice Avatar release, this one is unique. Not simply reflecting the sounds of different English language accents, this group of Avatars addresses even more subtle representations.

Let’s go through each of the four new avatars. We will listen to samples of their voices and discuss possible uses for them.

Team collaboration in WellSaid Studio has a new feature release.

Product Update: Team Collaboration

June 29, 2022

Listen as James, a WellSaid Avatar, reads the first paragraph.

WellSaid Studio customers know it is a simple and effective solution for creating the best quality AI voiceover. However, customers with multiple team members repeatedly reached out wanting even stronger collaboration capabilities. WellSaid listened and is excited to present expansive Team collaboration improvements.

Level up your presentation when you add voiceover to PowerPoint or Google Slides decks. We tell you how in this article.

How to Level Up Your Google Slide and PowerPoint Presentations With Voiceovers

May 20, 2022

Hear Tobin, one of the WSL Voice Avatars, read the intro to the post.

By 2025, 37.5% of people will be working from home in some capacity, whether fully remote or hybrid. That means it’s vital for businesses to implement strategies that increase engagement in virtual environments. Today, we’re sharing an important hack: adding voiceover to presentations.

One simple way that businesses can level up both their content and audience retention is by adding voiceovers to Google Slides or PowerPoints.

How to Level Up Your Google Slide and PowerPoint Presentations With Voiceovers

March 25, 2022

Hear Tobin, one of the WSL Voice Avatars, read the intro to the post.

One simple way that businesses can level up both their content and audience retention is by adding voiceovers to Google Slides or PowerPoints.

How to Get Into Voice Acting

March 23, 2022

This avatar, Ava, was trained from a professional voice actor’s recordings.

Voice acting is a career many feel is reserved for celebrities or people with unique voices. And that’s simply not true! Anyone with dedication and a passion for voice acting can find success in this field. So if you’re wondering how to get into voice acting, you’ve come to the right place. Breaking into this career is no easy feat; there are many more variables and factors to consider than most people may think.

This article illustrates the common hurdles that eLearning instructional designers face.

Top 10 Learning and Development Hurdles You Can Overcome

March 4, 2022

Listen as Tobin, a WellSaid Labs voice avatar, reads the intro to this post.

Learning and development professionals face a harder task than most people realize.

Their mission is not simply to present information. The mission is to capture learner attention, rapture, and retention—all while creating a positive brand experience in the process.

Information that’s presented carelessly may get the job done, but it does little for effective learning. Instead, educational experiences must be structured, strategic, and well thought out, with the learner’s point of view considered at all times.

WellSaid Labs Creates NPR’s First AI Podcast Episode

Five9 and WellSaid: Creating a Custom AI Voice Avatar

Voiceover Script: How to Do It Right

Webinar Replay: Improving Healthcare Information with Voice

New Voice Avatar Release: Meet 4 New WellSaid Voices

Product Update: Team Collaboration

How to Level Up Your Google Slide and PowerPoint Presentations With Voiceovers

How to Level Up Your Google Slide and PowerPoint Presentations With Voiceovers

How to Get Into Voice Acting

Top 10 Learning and Development Hurdles You Can Overcome

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