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Recording Booth is in Beta 🎉

You can get access to our new Recording Booth to record your voice.

If you want to test out new AudioStack features as a beta tester, please reach out to support[at]audiostack[dot]ai

• 🐛[SonicSell] Language changes implemented - produce the RIGHT language for your voice. Customers reported that some times the voices were returning the wrong voices.
• 🏷️ Improved tagging and categories for your files in the Content area.
• 📄 Instant voice cloning guide added to the docs

• Improved the "view more" control on SonicSell ads to make it easier to use 🤓
• Intergrated new File Management service mastering: this means you can now upload media files in the platform and use them in your sound templates and mastering 📂

🚀 We are excited to announce a significant update to our API, now supporting Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) among all our providers. This enhancement empowers users with greater control and customization over the synthesized audio output.

At AudioStack, as a provider-agnostic service we recognise the importance of granular control over your content regardless or provider, and we have now harmonised the most used and important tags to help you tailor your content to the maximum. ➡️ This means that you can use the same format of tag across multiple providers. If the change in question isn't supported by a particular provider, your code will still run 👏.

💯 You can now leverage various speech elements such as: pitch, rate, language, along with the ability to insert pauses and control pronunciation, enhancing the naturalness and expressiveness of the generated synthetic voices.

🍪 Brownie point: For our users that have cloned their voice with AudioStack, we now offer the capabilty of Localization of their content in any EFIGS (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish) language, plus Mexican Spanish. Please refer to our docs here to find out how! (*Note that the syntax used is different)

🦜This addition aligns with our commitment to providing cutting-edge tools for a seamless and immersive audio experience, unlocking new possibilities for developers and users alike. Explore the updated documentation here to incorporate SSML and elevate your audio applications to the next level!

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About Deprecation Warnings

To ensure we keep providing the best customer experience and performance possible, AudioStack will occasionally deprecate a feature or service from the API or the platform. We’ll always provide advanced notice and let you know of any actions needed, and communicate this both here in the changelog and directly to customers we know are affected before replacing the feature and removing it from the API.

We're in the process of upgrading our infrastructure around media files. We recently added the ability to upload and manage files in the AudioStack platform. We also upgraded our media files management to a new set of endpoints, which can be found here: https://docs.audiostack.ai/reference/postfile.

The old method for uploading media files, using /media/ is now being deprecated: https://docs.audiostack.ai/reference/postmedia

All customers using /media/ endpoints should switch over to /file/ within the next week to avoid potential interruptions. If you have any concerns or need support with this migration, please contact us ASAP at [email protected].

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. 🍫