These kinds of choices matter, especially at a scale of hundreds of millions of people.Īrticle updated to note that in some countries and languages Siri currently defaults to a male voice. Once youve added a text-to-speech voice to Windows, you can use it in programs like Microsoft Word, OneNote, and Edge. Instead, people type text into their phone and have it read it back over the video. You can add text-to-speech voices to Windows 10 through your PCs Settings app. TikTok is already full to the gills with videos that dont have real people speaking. Improvements there, as well as in queries on social justice topics and overall accessibility improvements, are incredibly key as we continue to see an explosion of voice-first or voice-native interfaces. Photo and video sharing service Instagram has added support for text-to-speech to its Reels feature, mimicking a similar feature that is already popular on TikTok. Over the past few years we have finally begun to see some movement from Amazon, Google and Apple to aggressively correct situations where the assistants have revealed bias in their responses to queries that use negative or abusive language.
More diversity in voice, tone and regional dialect can only be a positive development for how inclusive smart devices feel. Free TTS provides free and awesome services to convert written text into natural sounding voice. It seems very likely that these two new voices are just the first expansion in Siri’s voice selections. The new voices are available to English-speaking users around the world and Siri users can select a personal preference of voice in 16 languages. White-label voice assistants will win the battle for podcast discovery
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