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Text to Speech

Daniel Schachter
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Get a realistic voice-over from plain text with Text to Speech (TTS). Simply add your text, and Powtoon will generate a superb, high-quality voice-over, with a huge selection of voices, and languages.

In this article, we will go over how to create a Text to Speech voiceover, how to add it to the slide, and  more!
This feature requires a Corporate or Enterprise License.
 
 

Opening the Text to Speech module

Option 1

  1. Click on the Audio button ( studio - audio tab button.png ) on the from the library menu on the right side of the screen.
  2. Click on Text to speech.

Option 2

  1. Click the upload media button
  2. Click Voiceover.
    upload media - voiceover.png

Click Text to Speech.
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Adding Text to Speech to the Timeline

Once you have opened the Text to Speech module, you can add the text you want to convert into a voiceover, select the language, the voice style, and preview the audio.
  1. Add your text to the main text box.
  2. Select the voice actor you wish to use.
  3. Click Generate to preview your audio file.
    ai text2speech.png
Once the voiceover is finished generating, it will automatically begin to play. You can continue to add or remove text, or change the voice actor. Keep in mind that you will need to generate a new voiceover after each change you make.

If you are satisfied with your voiceover, follow these next steps to apply the voiceover to your Powtoon. Change the name of the audio file. The default name will always be the first few words of your text. In the example below, we have changed the file name to Intro voiceover by clicking existing text, and writing the desired name.

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Using Text to Speech for Lip-Sync

  1. Select a lip-sync supported Character, and click on the voice button ( voiceover button.png ).
  2. Select Text to Speech from the drop down menu.
    ai lip sync menu.png
  3. Add your text to the main text box.
  4. Select the voice actor you wish to use.
  5. Click Generate to preview your audio file.ai text2speech.png
 
Once the voiceover is finished generating, it will automatically begin to play. You can continue to add or remove text, and change voice actor. Keep in mind that you will need to generate a new voiceover after each change you make.
 
If you are satisfied with your voiceover, follow these next steps to apply the voiceover to your Powtoon. Change the name of the audio file. The default name will always be the first few words of your text. In the example below, we have changed the file name to Intro voiceover by clicking existing text, and writing the desired name.

ai change voiceover title.png

The voiceover will begin to sync with the character, so that the lip movement matches the audio file. This may take a few minutes, depending on the size of the voiceover.
 
 

Editing Text to Speech

Once a Text to Speech Audio file has been created, you can go back and edit it as needed. This will create a new copy of the audio file, rather then replacing the existing one.

  1. In the My Voiceover section, locate the text to speech audio, and click the 3 dots
    voiceover 3 dots.png
  2. Click Edit.
    edit ac copy.png
  3. The Text to Speech Module will open, and you can make changes to your Text to Speech.
  4. Click Generate.
  5. When you select 'Save voiceover', a new copy of the file will be generated. The original Text to Speech file will remain unchanged.


Text to speech languages

Each of the languages below is supported by at least one AI voice.

Afrikaans

Amharic

Arabic

Azerbaijani

Bulgarian

Bengali

Bosnian

Catalan

Czech

Welsh

Danish

German

Greek

English (US)

English (African)

English (Australia)

English (Canada)

English (India)

English (Ireland)

English (New Zealand)

English (South Africa)

English (UK)

Spanish (Argentina)

Spanish (LATAM)

Spanish (Spain)

Spanish (LATAM)

Spanish (Argentina)

Estonian

Basque

Persian

Finnish

Filipino

French (Belgium)

French (Canada)

French (Switzerland)

French (France)

Irish

Galician

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Croatian

Hungarian

Armenian

Indonesian

Icelandic

Italian

Japanese

Javanese

Georgian

Kazakh

Khmer

Kannada

Korean

Lao

Lithuanian

Latvian

Macedonian

Malayalam

Mongolian

Marathi

Malay

Maltese

Burmese

Norwegian

Nepali

Dutch

Punjabi

Polish

Pashto

Portuguese (Brazil)

Portuguese (Portugal)

Romanian

Russian

Sinhala

Slovak

Slovenian

Somali

Albanian

Serbian

Swedish

Swahili

Tamil

Telugu

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu (India)

Urdu (Pakistan)

Uzbek

Vietnamese

Chinese (Wu)

Chinese (Cantonese)

Chinese (Mandarin)

Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin)

Zulu

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