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How to Choose the Best Text-to-Speech API

March 17, 2023

If you’re looking for the best text-to-speech API available, you’ve probably heard some REALLY bad AI voices. In the past, synthetic voice technology delivered robotic, rigid, and sometimes comical sounding voices. Unfortunately, this limited the ability to use artificial voice that would be a net positive to the user experience.

WellSaid Labs API is part of a growing ecosystem of generative AI advancements that have helped synthetic voice approach human parity. Read on for important factors in synthetic voice API.

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.

Replay of Studio Best Practices webinar with Marta Mueller

WEBINAR REPLAY: WellSaid Studio Best Practices and Tips

February 2, 2023

Whether you’re new to WellSaid Studio or an experienced Voice Avatar coach, you’re sure to learn something helpful in this engaging and thorough creative session.

In this webinar, Marta gives a complete demonstration of creating voiceover in WellSaid Studio. From “auditioning” different Voice Avatars to coaching pronunciation, you will learn exactly how to create high-quality voiceover.

WellSaid Labs on Project Voice Conversational AI Industry Landscape Map

WellSaid Labs Makes the Conversational AI Industry Landscape Map

January 30, 2023

As Generative AI continues to make news, leaders in the industry map out the frontrunners to watch. More and more categories emerge, and Conversational AI is the latest area to receive a landscape map from the Project Voice team.

WellSaid Labs is proud to once again make the list of top AI companies in the space. Read on to learn more about the Project Voice map, and the other companies on it.

ChatGPT and synthetic voice presents opportunities and ethical concerns.

Exploring ChatGPT and Synthetic Voice

December 14, 2022

Anyone who follows news in AI tech knows that there has been a lot of buzz about OpenAI’s research release of ChatGPT. This powerful chatbot delivers results to all kinds of queries in a conversational, humanlike way. The implications for a vast number of use cases are impressive. However, they become even more exciting with the possible addition of synthetic voice.

WellSaid Labs once again makes the list of generative AI companies to watch, this time on the Base10 trend map.

WellSaid Make the Base10 Trend Map of Generative AI

November 22, 2022

If there’s one phrase you can’t help but hear over and over in the tech sector lately, it’s “generative AI.” This term applies to a wide range of technologies that seem to have hit a tipping point in quality, poised to truly impact our daily work. What is the commonality? All the companies in this space are capable of automating large sections of content creation of all kinds. Let’s look at some of the emerging leaders.

Webinar Replay: A Conversation with AI Voice Actor, Gabby Fernandes

November 18, 2022

We talk a lot about how we create Voice Avatars from the voices of actual human voice actors. It’s a fascinating technological process. But what is it like from the voice actor perspective?

WellSaid Labs makes Sequoia list of AI Generative apps

In the News: WellSaid Included in Sequoia Capital Generative AI Market Map

October 25, 2022

A lot of tech analysts like to talk about “emerging AI.” However, when experts from Sequoia make a list, the industry pays attention. As a Silicon Valley capital firm behind such unicorns as DoorDash, Zoom, Snowflake, and Vanta, Sequoia knows what to look for in tech trends.

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.

Digital Audio Advertising is easier with lifelike AI voices from WellSaid Labs.

How to Transform Your Business with Digital Audio Advertising

September 2, 2022

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

The power of audio advertising has been on an upward trajectory in recent years. Data coming out of the industry indicates that digital audio advertising revenue now tops $3 billion, with double-digit growth numbers every year.

But why are brands across every industry piling dollars into audio marketing?