Improved Credits page

• https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/pricing 🔍
• We clarified our credits page to make the usage easier to understand

 Better file management

We made some great improvements to Ms-file-management enhancing your management of your files on our platform 💯 😄

New features include:

• Uploading files into folders 📁
• Listing by folder 📁
• Automatic sanitisation of incoming data
• Support for more file types i.e. video 📹
• Better metadata attached to each file (source, type, length, size etc)
• custom metadata field (limited to 8kb)
• list endpoint returns folders and files (with all metadata)
• Directories are handled 🎧
• auto increment file names on duplicates 💯

JS SDK - version 1.0.3

• Also we shipped a new JS SDK version with the new file management API and edit advert feature
• You can try it out at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aflr/audiostack

11 DeepZen voices added to our offering!

Our partner DeepZen has just added 11 premium voices to their impressive and emotive voice portfolio-and so have we! **Ben**, **Clement** and **Glen**🇩🇪 , **Edmar** and **Andreia** 🇲🇽, **Sylvain** 🇫🇷, **Semra** and **Beran** 🇹🇷, **Pattie**, **Coranda** 🇺🇸 and **Chantry** with his Afro-American accent. Try them out in AudioStack's library and let us know what you think!

Sonic Sell improvements

• Fixed a bug with pronunciations of german words including umlaut characters. 🇩🇪
• Added new voices to SonicSell, from PlayHT and OpenAI providers. 🔈
• Fixed a bug with default gender and voice selection when none are provided. 🐛
• Improved variety of 30 second ad scripts in English. 🍫

Check out some exciting additions in the latest version of SonicSell!

Key features:

• Multi-length advert support;
• Create an ad script from scratch;
• Translate your ad using "Improve with AI";
• Improved stability and performance.

Any issues? Share your feedback at [email protected]

OpenAI Voices Added to our Library 🎉

Exciting news! 🥳 We're delighted to unveil the latest additions to our diverse voice library – introducing the eagerly awaited OpenAI voices. Meet them under the names alloy, echo, fable, onyx, nova, and shimmer. These voices not only boast excellent prosody, pitch, and intonation but also offer multilingual capabilities, supporting a whopping 28 languages 😲 :

Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

❗Generate spoken audio in your preferred language by providing input text in the language of your choice. Note that while optimized for English, our voices perform admirably across most of the languages mentioned above:exclamation:

❕As responsible synthetic voice advocates, kindly ensure clear disclosure to end-users that the TTS voice is AI-generated and not a human voice:grey_exclamation:

We value your feedback 💯 – share your thoughts with us!

 Docs update (GDPR and Reliability)

• We added some improvements showing our reliability and up time commitments - https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/reliability-and-slas
• We added some clarification of our GDPR commitments as well. This is available at the following link How AudioStack complies with GDPR

Introducing new Ultra-Realistic AI Voices from PlayHT!

We're thrilled to announce the addition of cutting-edge AI voices to our repertoire, crafted using next-generation speech technology by PlayHT. These voices bring a new level of human-like emotion to text-to-speech generation, providing an immersive and expressive experience. These voices are English with various accents: 🇺🇸 American, 🇬🇧 British, 🇦🇺 Australian and 🇨🇦Canadian. Explore the expressive range of these voices, each uniquely crafted to elevate your content across various formats. From advertisements, to podcasts to training videos, our new voices offer versatility and authenticity. Try them all out in our Library with another 1200 voices!

❤️ We're committed to providing you with the latest advancements in AI voice technology, we have more state of the art AI voices coming next week ❤️

Deprecation Notice 😢

Later this week three of our voices will be deprecated 😔 : Renata, Jollie, Matthew. If you rely on any of these voices for your audio creation, please make sure that you migrate to a new voice before the end of next week. You can find all available voices in our Library. Worry not, because we have more voices announced very soon, watch this space 💯

Platform - Workflows page updated

Our workflows enable you to create audio for your business use case.

You can try it out in Platform ! It's free to sign up 💯

AudioStack Essentials

These are the essential tools to start creating audio with audiostack

AdStack

A workflow designed for production of audio advertisements

You can see more at AdStack

There's plenty more coming soon this is just a taster - have a look at Platform

• The Javascript SDK has had a major update to include all of our latest API features. Check out the changes here: https://github.com/aflorithmic/audiostack-js/blob/HEAD/CHANGELOG.md
• Easier sound design and voices browsing:
  • The Dictionary has been updated, and now allows you to search for voices;
  • You can browse sound designs directly in SonicSell.
• Platform updates:
  • You can now see private (cloned) voices in the new Platform;
  • You can now resubscribe to a previous plan; and,
  • Workflows page has been given a makeover.

You can now find our guide to generating a complete audio advert using AI, in the API Recipes sections of the docs. Check it out 🚀

You can also now annotate speech with timestamps, to generate transcripts or identify when certain words are spoken. Find out more ⏱️