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Using Punctuation and Mark-Up Language to Increase Text-to-Speech Quality

Tony Karrer

This post is part of the series on Text-to-Speech (TTS) for eLearning written by Dr. Joel Harband and edited by me. One of the concerns raised by various comments during the series has been around the quality of the results of Text-to-Speech (TTS) Voices and if that was suitable for eLearning.

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Text-to-Speech Basics: What Is TTS and Who Uses It?

CourseArc

A Guest Post by ReadSpeaker The Internet of Voice has arrived, and it’s changing the way we interact with our devices. Call it the age of conversational computing—and the computer’s end of these conversations comes courtesy of a digital technology called text to speech, or TTS for short.

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KITABOO partners with Amazon Polly for creating interactive children’s eBooks

Kitaboo

Amazon Polly, a Text-to-Speech service, is another popular platform for converting textbooks into lifelike speech. So you can create apps that talk and build entirely new categories of eBooks that are speech-enabled. The fluid pronunciation of text helps to deliver high-quality voice output for a global audience.

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eBook Publishing Platform: The Blacks and The Whites

Kitaboo

Supplemental Revenues Many eBook publishing platforms offer educators to create a supplemental stream of revenues by requesting ad space for the services of their business associates or of their own. For example, making text-to-speech available for free but restricting the voice to one language.

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Innovative ePUB DRM Software for eBook Protection

Kitaboo

It empowers authors and publishers to control their intellectual property, manage distribution channels, and generate sustainable revenue streams. Its comprehensive DRM solutions cater to various eBook formats, including reflowable and fixed layouts and supporting features like media overlays, video, audio, and text-to-speech.

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Top eBook to Audiobook Converters

Kitaboo

The most important among these are the design and flow of the content, voice clarity, quality, and speed controls. There is no need for dramatization, but some voice modulation can work well in giving a better experience. Voice quality – A monotonous voice can fall flat on your ears.

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The best autonomous AI agents in 2024

Play.ht

For example, when you talk to chatbots on websites or get movie recommendations on streaming services, autonomous AI is at work. Discover PlayHT for top-tier text-to-speech solutions If you’re diving into the world of autonomous AI agents and AI-driven applications, don’t overlook PlayHT for your text-to-speech needs.