Virtual Speaker
Easily voice animate your content, produce your voice recordings from your PC, 24/7.
Easily produce your High Quality audio files, in over 30 languages
Virtual Speaker is a solution designed to allow you to create high quality voice recordings at any time, 24/7, using a virtual recording studio installed on the PC.
Through a user-friendly interface, operators can easily produce the voice files they need. Free from speaker and recording studio logistics constraints. Using one of Acapela’s standard voices or one that is custom made.
The power and naturalness of Acapela voices at your fingertips. You provide the texts and choose the voice, Virtual Speaker will immediately create audio files with voice recordings, using the high quality, multilingual, text to speech from Acapela Group.
Developer benefits
Based on the latest and highest quality text to speech technology by Acapela Group, Virtual Speaker can instantly convert any text into sound with a natural and pleasant voice using the language, the voice and the output file format that fits your needs.
All recordings made with Virtual Speaker originate from a simple text file containing the text to be spoken. Recording a new message or updating an existing message is as simple as editing a text file and pressing the record button.
Market apps and services
IVR, e learning, public announcements, passenger information and much more.
Key benefits
Voices & languages
A wide range of voices are available in theportfolio. Some of the voices provide additional emotional variants (sad/happy) and attitudes (shouting/whispering).
Friendly interface
With powerful features like search and replace, colour syntax, intuitive menus and buttons, real time highlighting of texts synthesized, Virtual Speaker is a powerful and easy to handle editor.
Voice properties
Adjustable voice settings such as speaking rate, voice tone, volume and pause length for punctuation.
Audio file formats
choice of audio output formats: 8 kHz, 11 kHz, 16 kHz, 22 kHz, 44 kHz, PCM, A-law, µ-law, vox, MP3.
Technical Specifications
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RequirementsWindows 7 and 8, Desktop and Windows 10.
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Adjustable voice settingssuch as speaking rate, voice tone, volume and pause length for punctuation.
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Speech control tagsto change settings, voice or language in the middle of a text. Speech control tags can be managed via the interface graphics and common settings can be saved and quickly reused.
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Create an alternative pronunciationon a word or sentence you dislike with the amazing Alternative Inflection feature. Audio control tags to insert sound in the middle of the speech and to mix a loop or background music with speech.
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Manual Modeto manage your files using the graphical interface graphics. Open a text file, edit it, listen to it, fine tune settings and then create your perfect recording.
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Automatic modeto run tasks with no need for human supervision, such as processing long lists of files or automatically converting a file to add to a folder.
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Audio output formats8 kHz, 11 kHz, 16 kHz, 22 kHz, 44 kHz, PCM, A-law, µ-law, vox, MP3.
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Audio playerIn-built audio player
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LexiconsLexicon Editor for creating and editing user lexicons.
Pricing
Virtual Speaker is based on a limited time volume (pre-paid packages of speech hours), adapted to your project and the text volumes you need to generate.
First pre-paid package (5 hours): 1500 euros.
Tutorials
Getting started and how to convert a text file into audio
Convert several files at once using Batch mode
How to use the Change pronunciation feature
Frequently Asked Questions
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1. What is Virtual Speaker?
Virtual Speaker is a stand-alone application that allows you to create sound files from text files using text to speech.
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2. What is the difference between Virtual Speaker and the developer SDKs?
The SDKs are typically integrated and redistributed with some other software, while Virtual Speaker is a stand-alone solution that is part of our off-the-shelf products and ready to use with no particular technical knowledge.
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3. How do I purchase Virtual Speaker?
Use the Contact link on this website and send us a description of what you want to achieve and an estimation of the volume of audio that you plan to generate, and we’ll get back to you with more information.
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4. I only need to create a few sound files right now, what should I do?
We also have a cloud application called acapela-box that allows you to purchase and generate a small number of audios immediately, directly in the browser.
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5. What is the pricing model of Virtual Speaker?
While the application is free, you pay for the amount of audio that you want to generate, by purchasing pre-paid packages of time and using it until your time credit is exhausted or you decide to renew it.
If you purchase a package of 5 hours of time credit and then you create audio files lasting for a total of 45 minutes, you will have 4 hours and 15 minutes left on your account.
The amount of time purchased can be used with any language and voice.
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6. Can I change the way a sentence is pronounced by Virtual Speaker?
There are different ways to control and refine the way the TTS will read your input. For complete information please visit the TTS optimization page.