Speaker 1: Welcome to Crowded Lab. Let me ask you the question. Would you like to get text-to-speech service, which will give you half a million characters free per month? I would like to get such service and let me share it with you. And before we proceed, I must say that recently I did my tier list of text-to-speech services, which are available on Lifetime Deal. And the service, which I am showing to you today, I would say at least it is on B tier and maybe a bit above, considering ease of use and the quality of the voices. Alright, so let's start. And first of all, you will need to go to azure.microsoft.com and create your account there. The account is free, you will be prompted to enter your credit card, however, you will not be charged and you will have free tier available. Then when you will have your account created, just go to speech.microsoft.com slash portal. Then you can scroll down to a text-to-speech section. And actually, let's start looking at the voices that Microsoft Azure provides. So here it is, the voice gallery. Regarding the selection of voices, we have quite a lot in many languages. For example, I have selected English United States, but we have many more available. And for example, if we will scroll down to Spanish one, we have different variants per country, which is nice to have. Alright, so

Speaker 2: let's listen for a few voices. If you can't find the information, you may want to consider contacting

Speaker 3: yourself. Yes, that is what I said. A maximum strategy. This process of evolution is fascinating.

Speaker 2: He waved to acknowledge the crowd, and then he waved again.

Speaker 3: Artificial intelligence, AI, is revolutionizing the way today's businesses.

Speaker 1: For some voices, you have different styles available. Let's check excited. I'm so excited that we just won the championship. That's nice. Let's check a few other ones. Bitcoin's high

Speaker 4: coincided with the stock market. Many think that the people you list as references are already

Speaker 1: cued to say nice things about you. So I would say I'm very satisfied with the quality of provided voices. Also, you can take a look at example by use case. There are a few examples like audiobook, narrator, news. And down below, you can see the editor. You will be able to define the speaker and inside the text, you will be able to switch between speakers and apply different effects or styles which a particular voice has. For example, shouting, unfriendly, sad, or default, and many other variants. All right, so getting back to voice catalog. And in order to use your service, you will be prompted to create a speech resource. Make sure that you will choose 3F0. You can have one speech resource per account. And I have mine already created. And then you will just need to go to audio content creation where you will see this editor. You can choose the quality of your audio. To the right, we have a selection of voices. So yeah, let's stick with Brian. And right from here,

Speaker 2: we can preview those. If you can't find the information, you may want to consider...

Speaker 1: And also, as you can see, I am using 3F0 resource with half a million characters quarter monthly. So let's actually paste some text here. Right away, we can preview our generation

Speaker 2: by clicking here. Welcome to Crowded Lab and good news everyone. Today, I will do a revisit video, an updated review of CADAB. I did my review of this tool four months ago. Nice. I think you will need

Speaker 1: to choose the voice that will suit better for your particular case. Let's explore a few other options available to the right. We can apply breaks, set it in milliseconds if needed, or use default values. So let's add silence. For example, comma exact 200 milliseconds. Okay, so we can see the effect appeared here. We can play with pronunciation. I believe we can add our custom lexicon. We can modify intonation. That is nice. Four months ago. We can modify the rate. Let's say I would like this part of text to be slower. Okay, we can add pitch. Let's say high here. And we can play this volume as well. Alright, so let's listen to it one more time.

Speaker 2: Welcome to Crowded Lab and good news everyone. Today, I will do a revisit video, an updated review of CADAB. I did my review of this tool four months ago and now it is back on AppSumo as a lifetime deal.

Speaker 1: So in this video, we'll see what changed. Alright, so basically that's it. That's what you can do with this tool. If the voice will have styles, I think you will be able to change those as well. For example, part of the text can be sad and another part can be angry. Alright, so now let's save our result. First of all, save in the transcript. And now let's export. We can save it in the cloud or export to local disk. Let's choose this option. We can have high quality and choose to export all that we need. Audio, text and additional markup format, which Microsoft Azure understands, where actually there are saved those settings like adding part of the text to be sad or angry style.

Speaker 2: Alright, so let's export. And here it is. Welcome to Crowded Lab and good news everyone. Today, I will do a revisit video, an updated review of CADAB. I did my review of this tool four months ago and now it is back on AppSumo as a lifetime deal. So that was quick and nice. Alright,

Speaker 1: so moving to a conclusion. And before we do so, I must point out that each export, I think, is limited to 3000 characters. So just keep that in mind. And as well, let's get back to the tier list. Where would I put Azure Speech Studio? I would say I would put it at B tier because you will need to spend some time for initial setup. You will be asked to enter your credit card. You won't be charged. However, you need to enter that. If your bank allows, you can create a virtual card without any balance on it. So just in case you won't be charged anything and you can use that virtual credit or debit card without balance to start using free tier. It has some good selection of voices in a good quality. It provides some settings. You can apply different styles to different words, add pauses, change pitch and volume. And all of that you get for free for half a million characters per month. However, the ease of use is not on par with DubDub. And DubDub, I believe, provides much cleaner and easier and user-friendly workflow for your text to speech creation and as well provides great selection of voices. So yeah, Azure AI Speech Studio B tier. So the link will be in the description. Please also give this video a like if you find this content useful and subscribe for more similar videos. Thank you for watching. See you in the next one.