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5th of May - Voice Intelligence Layer, Voice library, Pricing Updates

over 1 year ago by Peadar Coyle

Pricing updates

We are constantly investing in better products and services for our customers so we'll occasionally be changing some things in our pricing systems

  • We recently updated a few things in our pricing systems, this is to improve the customer experience, you shouldn't notice much change except a few cheaper endpoints.
  • We changed the £50 extra credits limit to £300 - so you'll be charged less frequently. This is due to customer feedback 💯
  • We also lowered some of our pricing on some voices - you can see the updates on the pricing page https://audiostack.readme.io/docs/pricing

Voices Library

We recently completed a full rewrite of our voices library. This is to allow us to handle security better - we take this seriously, and also to allow users to find voices faster.

  • We redesigned our library management system using Contentful, adding validation.
  • We added an integration between our voice systems and our search engine - which will enhance voice discoverability in our frontends.
  • We also added enhanced voice permissions, authentication and integrated with our user and organisation permission system.

Lots of this is under the hood, but it's an example of the sort of customer experience and operational excellence processes we're investing in. Well done to all in the team! Migrations are hard! 🗻

Voice Intelligence layer - Abbreviations and Ordinal numbers

We've been hard at work on our voice intelligence layer 👌

Ordinal Numbers

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Definition of Ordinal numbers

A number defining the position of something in a series, such as ‘first’, ‘second’, or ‘third’. Ordinal numbers are used as adjectives, nouns, and pronouns.

The Voice Intelligence Layer is now able to normalise ordinal numbers in German 🇩🇪. It covers all ordinal numbers in the format X. that are used as adjectives. Here’s an example:

import audiostack
import os

audiostack.api_key = os.environ["AUDIO_STACK_DEV_KEY"]
text = "Ich war wie im 7. Himmel"  

script = audiostack.Content.Script.create(scriptText=text)
tts = audiostack.Speech.TTS.create(scriptItem=script, voice="lena", useDictionary= True, useTextNormalizer= True)
print(tts.data['sections'][0]['preview'])

Out:
"Ich war wie im siebten Himmel."

Abbreviations

The Voice Intelligence Layer is now able to expand German abbreviations to their full form. It covers the 130 most frequent abbreviations in German. Here’s an example:

Here's some examples

import audiostack
import os

audiostack.api_key = os.environ["AUDIO_STACK_DEV_KEY"]
text = "Ich kenne eine Abk. zum Bhf. von Ulm."  

script = audiostack.Content.Script.create(scriptText=text)
tts = audiostack.Speech.TTS.create(scriptItem=script, voice="lena", useDictionary= True, useTextNormalizer= True)
print(tts.data['sections'][0]['preview'])

Out:
"Ich kenne eine Abkürzung zum Bahnhof von Ulm."