Podcast recording and modifying platform Podcastle is now becoming a member of different corporations within the AI-powered, text-to-speech race by releasing its personal AI mannequin referred to as Asyncflow v1.0. An API for builders will even be obtainable, permitting them to straight combine the text-to-speech mannequin of their apps.
Because of the brand new mannequin, the corporate is ready to provide greater than 450 AI voices that may narrate your textual content. The startup stated that it developed the know-how and mannequin in such a method that its coaching and inference prices are low, giving it a bonus in opposition to rivals.
With the transfer, Podcastle joins a lot of startups, together with ElevenLabs, Speechify, and WellSaid, which have developed know-how and AI fashions to transform any form of textual content right into a voice clip narrated by AI. This know-how spans use circumstances like advertising, commercial, content material creation, schooling, and company coaching.
Podcastle’s founder, Arto Yeritsyan, instructed TechCrunch that the corporate had at all times wished to construct a text-to-speech mannequin, however the price of coaching and knowledge necessities for that had been very excessive.
“We wished to construct a strong text-to-speech mannequin since our inception. Nevertheless, the prices of improvement had been very excessive. Because of current massive language mannequin developments, we had been capable of attain a breakthrough final yr to get to a spot the place we may construct a high-quality voice mannequin while not having a ton of knowledge,” Yeritsyan stated.
The corporate was additionally aided in its efforts by its $13.5 million Collection A fundraise final yr.
Yeritsyan stated that whereas Podcastle fees round $40 per 500 minutes of text-to-speech conversion, ElevenLabs fees $99 for a similar.
Podcastle’s voice cloning characteristic is getting an improve, as properly, to create a faster course of for coaching.
Earlier, the coaching course of concerned studying roughly 70 totally different sentences. Now, it simply wants a couple of seconds of recording from you to create a clone of your voice. The brand new course of additionally used Podcastle’s Magic Mud AI, which was launched final yr, to enhance audio recording high quality.
In our testing, the voice created with the brand new course of sounded a bit robotic, although it mimicked our tone. The corporate stated that, over time, it can enhance the characteristic. Plus, you possibly can prepare totally different samples of your voice to get totally different outcomes.
Podcastle stated that aside from prices, having instruments for audio, video, podcasts, and AI-powered narration underneath one redesigned website will give it an edge over rivals. Yeritsyan stated that whereas nearly all of the customers use Podcastle to work on audio content material, video is catching as much as it as properly.
