Happy New Year 🎉

Firstly Happy New Year from all of us at AudioStack!

 Longer audio content

• One question we often have from customers was that we often had a 30 second timeout in our audio content. We fixed this! Now you can enjoy longer and more reliable audio content 🎧

[SonicSell] Diversification of advertisements

• Ad diversification - has been added to Sonic Sell for EN and DE, 20, 30, and 40 second ads. You'll never get the same ad twice! Enhancing your brand safety.
• This is predominately for SonicSell but we'll be adding it more to other things in the future.

Try these out now and feel free to send support[at]audiostack[dot]ai your feature requests we love to hear customer feedback!

Content (Media Files) Management in the Platform

• You can now upload and delete files in the platform. 🎵
• Create folders in order to organise your content. 📂
• Media files will be usable as sound designs (coming soon) in a project, and (coming soon) will be usable as source files for voice cloning. 🎤
• Find out more in the docs

Updated Docs

• We've added guides to help business users get started creating an account in the AudioStack platform: https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/create-an-account
• Updated Introduction to the Docs to make it clearer what the API can do.
• Updated API reference for Script-related endpoints based on feedback.

Annotation

This week, we released some improvements in the timestamp annotation endpoint and a bugfix in TTS:

• annotation is now possible for all languages supported by Azure (most of our voices);
• STT works better as it’s not stopping on short silences anymore;
• multi-section annotation is much faster;
• fixes an unrelated, but influencing bug where cached speech sections would have incorrectly saved names;
• API reference for TTS/annotate has been updated.

Files and Folders Usage Guide

https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/files-folders

• We added a guide to using the files and folders management endpoints in the AudioStack API.

Generate an AI Script Usage Guide

https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/generate-an-ai-script

• We added a usage guide for generating a script using AI to the docs.

Terms of use

https://audiostack.ai/en/terms-of-use

• We updated our terms of use with some GDPR related changes;
• Clarified some wording to make the terms more understandable.

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 💯