Support for ElevenLabs v2 Multilingual Voices

You can now access v2 of ElevenLabs' multilingual voices via AudioStack, a major improvement in terms of improving content accessibility through language localisation. 🎉

Find out more about the capabilities of v2 on ElevenLabs' website.

We are changing the way we're providing sound templates to make it simpler for end users. Going forward, we're making it easier to understand what rights you have over the content you're working with, as we move towards offering a range of exclusive PRO-free sound templates (public rights organization free), which means that users can use the content accessed much more flexibly and with fewer restrictions.

More content is coming in the next few weeks, but while we move forward with this some of our old demo content, which had much more restrictive usage conditions, will be unavailable. If there's a sound template you really like and would like to use something similar for a broadcast ad or in a commercial setting, let us know and we will make sure we include a sound template that meets your needs.

Find out more about the sound templates we have available here:

<https://docs.audiostack.ai/docs/use-sound-templates>

Workflow Quick Start Guides

New quick start guides are now available in the AudioStack Docs, covering some of our users' most common workflows. You can find guides on:

• Creating an AI podcast and publish it using Julep
• Adding an AI voice-over to a video
• Using Dynamic Creative Optimisation to tailor audio ads to a specific customer

Are there other guides you'd like to see? Let us know in the discussion!

/TTS/Reduce

We've added a new endpoint to the AudioStack API, which allows users to condense their speech files to fit within a fixed duration, while retaining the speech's natural sound.

Common use cases include:

• 🕘 Creating audio adverts that need to fit within a fixed time slot (e.g. 15 or 30 seconds)
• 💬 Generating audio "tags" and terms and conditions text for the end of your audio file

Check out a code example and more info in our user guide.

Quick Start Guides

• We've made changes to our Quick Start guides, to help users get set up quicker. We now have two Quick Start guides - one aimed at people without software development experience, and a condensed version for developers. 📔
• These include updated code examples and step by step guidance on creating your first audio. 🔉

Mastering engine

We made a major update to our mastering engine, updating libraries and improving performance 🚀 You should have less error rates and a better customer experience.

Voice Intelligence Layer

• Voice Intelligence Layer Is the link to the voice intelligence layer check it out!
• Our celebrated voice intelligence layer is now UP TO 5X faster 🚤
• We've added to the voice intelligence layer an enhanced load balancer so now our platform works with longer form text. 💯
• This solves a major issue that many customers reported which was "fizzing out" of content. This should make your customers and users even happier 🐶

Error messages

• We've made many improvements to error messages so it should be clearer where some speech requests fail, and how to fix the error. This enhances the developer and user experience.

Share your SonicSell creation by QR code 🎉

Our customers asked us for the ability to share your creations in sonic sell by QR code. And we answered them with this feature!

Try it now! So you can share your beautiful creations with your friends! 💯

Some bug fixes and usability enhancements

• We added better filtering to our sound templates, thanks to Pascal who pointed out this bug and we fixed it:construction_worker:
• We made some security improvements to enhance customer trust!
• We fixed a bug in correct MIME type of uploaded audio in our Audio Engine 🐛

Voice Intelligence Layer updates

We're continuously working on our Voice Intelligence Layer.

• We fixed some 11labs errors and artefacts when script texts are long 🐛 Thanks to our customers for pointing this out 💯
• Allows to process long scripts as each section is fragmented in several sections when necessary. This means longer scripts will be processed faster no timeouts 💯

SSML Harmonisation

A commonly asked question by customers is "how do I make sure the same SSML works across providers".

So today we're VERY excited to launch our first (of many) features 🎉 🎂

You can run this on ANY provider and it'll either work or it'll fail. So your code will work with ANY provider and ANY voice

•    body = {
          "projectName": "__TEST",
          "scriptText": '<as:section> hello <as:break time="4s"/> worlds </as:section>',
      }

We showed this in beta to our customers and we got this quote

"This will save us so much time 10% of our bugs are due to things like this" - Software Developer at an Advertising company

How do I get started?

Simply to get stared just update

<break time="150ms"/>

to <as:break time="150ms"/>

Other reading

SSML Tags

If you want an update on SSML wikipedia is great.

Documentation updates

Some small updates to the documentation

Custom Sound Design Templates

• Deprecated - Update sound templates is deprecated

Use Sound templates

• Changes in list filtering parameters