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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

March 25, 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 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.

Read our guide to voiceover post-production basics.

Comprehensive Guide: Voiceover Post-Production Techniques

March 1, 2022

Listen to Jarvis, an AI avatar, read the first paragraph of this article.

Whether listeners recognize it consciously or not, audio can make or break a project. Poorly balanced sound strips a dialogue scene of its weight, forcing audiences to focus on deciphering voices from background noise. Poor podcast audio becomes distracting, action scenes lose their impact, and songs become a mess of competing tracks and vocals. Regardless of the quality of the rest of the project, audio editing and clarity have a huge impact on how the we receive content. In fact, a recent study of online videos found that there was an 89 percent correlation between highly-rated videos and good audio quality.

Learn best practices for WSL Studio with our product expert in this creative session.

Webinar Replay: Creative Session with Customer Success

February 11, 2022

Ever wondered how to get a pronunciation just right in the WellSaid Studio? Or wondered about which voice avatar to use?

In our Creative Session on February 10, we dug deep into Studio with one of our Customer Success Managers, Marta Mueller. You won’t want to miss all the best practices for everything from acronyms to avatars!

We released new ai voice avatars in q1 of 2022.

New Voice Avatar Release: Meet 9 New WellSaid Voices!

January 25, 2022

We are always excited when we release new voice avatars, but this edition is especially exciting. Introducing 9 brand new voice avatars, including all new accents. Additionally, we have added new voice styles to existing voice avatars that you already know and use regularly. Read on to hear samples and learn all about these new options.

New Accents: Australian and More British English Voice Avatars

Users all over the world have been asking us to add more accents to our catalog of voices. In our last voice avatar release, we added a South African and more British accents. This release, we are thrilled to add our first Australian English accent. Check out Jarvis, Theo, and James!

Read about the steps and components of high quality voiceover.

Everything You Need to Know About Creating High-Quality Voiceover

January 12, 2022

The voiceover industry is booming, thanks in part to a 42% increase in audiobook consumption in 2020 and a forecasted 21% growth in eLearning (valued around $250 billion in 2020). Voiceovers sound off across video marketing, advertisements, voice assistants, corporate training content, and more. A high-quality voiceover leads to more sales, a more professional brand image, and more memorable marketing materials. But technology is changing quickly and voiceovers must keep up to be heard and be effective.

In this blog post, learn the myriad channels voiceovers appear in, the essential elements of a high-quality voiceover, who makes voiceovers in today’s marketing landscape, and how voiceovers are recorded—from traditional methods to the latest technology.

Voice over API is a powerful way to add voice content to your applications.

3 Incredible Reasons to Use Voice Over API

December 30, 2021

Listen to Tilda, one of our AI voices, read the intro to this article.

Among the most sophisticated AI voice over platforms, voice overs sound completely natural. So lifelike, in fact, that listeners can’t tell the difference between an AI text to voice generator and a human actor. These text-to-speech platforms offer APIs where product developers and engineers can seamlessly integrate a voice over API into their existing technology stack. The possibilities are endless. This creates natural-sounding voice overs for podcast episodes, articles, videos, and more.

In this blog post, we talk more about voice over APIs. This includes what they are, how brands and content creators can use them, and the unique benefits they offer.

Meet the new text to speech voice avatars at WellSaid!

New Avatar Voices, Now at WSL!

November 22, 2021

We are so excited to introduce you to our seven new friends. Technically, they are avatar voices, but we know you’ll like them. While we often add new voice options to the WSL Studio, we are extra excited about this group. Let’s meet the new options for your next voice over project and learn a bit about the process.

Product Update: Render by Paragraph

July 14, 2021

At WellSaid Labs, we’re always listening to our clients and creator community to develop features that help create text-to-speech voiceovers more easily, efficiently, and effectively. One of the most requested features is Render by Paragraph, which is a functionality that enables you to automatically render a separate audio file for each paragraph of your script. In this article, we share the benefits of Render by Paragraph, how to use it in WellSaid Studio, and examples of Render by Paragraph in action.