We're pleased to announce the addition of 15 new voices to the AudioStack voice library, from our provider Wellsaid Labs.

The voices are:

• conversational abbi
• promo antony
• promo fiona
• conversational hannah
• conversational issa
• convesational jack
• conversational jay
• promo jay
• conversational jimmy
• conversational lorenzo
• conversational lulu
• conversational oliver
• conversational shelby
• promo shelby
• promo terra

• In the voice library, you can now filter voices by technology, to easily find which voices can use speech-to-speech or TTS.
• We also added support for organisations who wish to compare different (human) voice actors' sample recordings inside the AudioStack library - please contact us if you're interested in adding this for your organisation.
• We levelled up our file browsing experience in the Resources/Content page, to better support a large volume of files.

New voices added 💯

• We added a few new voices from Eleven Labs- try them out!
• Daymon & Deena (great for natural, conversational speech)
• Laureen & Will (great for upbeat, expressive narration).

You can try them out at library or in the API directly.

Better multi-lingual STS

• STS now uses multilingual model - leading to better quality for non-english speech. Try it out in German or Hindi

New voices 😀

We added a new vendor Cartesia they are working on new model types for foundational models 🤯

• Have a listen to their voices in the voice library under provider=cartesia
• You may want to try out chanel in 🇫🇷 , harshita for a great 🇮🇳 accent in English, and kane in 🇺🇸
• If you have a favourite please email us at support[at]audiostack[dot]ai we love to hear your feedback

New Email Design 📧

We gave a lick of paint to our emails - to delight our customers

We're excited to announce the addition of 34 new English-speaking voices to the AudioStack Library, upping the total number of available voices to a whopping 1407 speakers! 🎊

We made some updates to Workshop to better support different lengths of audio asset.

• The generate button will only be available if you have a script that fits (to avoid cutting off the end of your script); and,
• Editing a SonicSell Ad within Workshop now generates audio with the same length (bug fix).

Earlier this week, we released a couple of updates to the AudioStack platform, including:

• Redesign of the Voice Library - it's now easier than ever to find a voice in the AudioStack library.
• Mobile support for the Voice Library - browse voices from your smartphone. Simply open the page in your browser.

• Custom Length in Workshop - you can now specify how long you want an asset created in workshop to be.

• Fixed a bug with sorting in the Voice Library.

This week, the AudioStack team have been busy levelling up the capabilities of AudioStack API. We're excited to announce a new feature in Production - atmospheric sound design.

You can check out an example of what's possible below, the full tutorials will be landing shortly 🚀

We also did some maintenance to improve performance of the speech/voice endpoint and speech/voice/recommendation endpoint, as well as fixing a bug with load balancing in response to customer feedback.

This week in SonicSell, we added a couple of improvements to the ad generation experience.

• You can now "Start Over" to create a new ad; and,
• Voice selection is now more variable when gender and tone are pre-selected, improving the quality of voice recommendations.

We also improved the Voice Library by giving each voice its own page, so now you can link people directly to a specific voice in the library using the URL.

Some of our documentation has also had an update...

• We added more explanations and a better structure to “how does audiostack work”
• Added an errors page aimed at API users
• Enhanced the Getting Started page as well including adding a “what is a RESTful API” explanation.

SonicSell improvements

• Added some new example templates to the model to give the script generation even more expert guidance
• Length adjustments -> percentage of too short ads decreased from 50% to 15% 🚀
• Prompt refinements that should lead to less normalization errors

Infrastructure improvements

• Upgraded our user permission management system - should lead to less errors for our customers 😀
• Fixed a billing error on Speech to Speech 💰

JS SDK 1.1.13:

• Handle 200 & 202 responses correctly for STS (speech to speech)