By Amy Foxwell
03/20/2023 – FE News
ReadSpeaker is a technology text-to-speech company with several widely used products that make written material more accessible to learners by reading books or assignments or test questions. And though TTS technologies have been around for a long time, AI and machine learning have made automated speech and voice products immensely good in quality and unbelievably versatile.
That same underlying text-to-speech technology now gives many video games their voice, and voices. When superheroes or wizards or make-believe commandos talk, it’s usually AI text-to-speech behind the curtain. While actors are involved, they almost never say every line in a game. In fact, you may be surprised how many voices you hear in a video game or in a movie aren’t being spoken by live, human voice anymore. Instead, with the combination of experienced linguists, top-end AI technology, and a handful of very precise recording sessions, we can make any voice say any line possible, in any language.
The same technology is also used to bring personality to assistive audio devices, personal navigation platforms and public transit systems. Real people don’t make public announcements of train schedules anymore. That’s voice computer stuff….Read the full FE News article here.