How To Create Text-To-Speech Audio Files:
A Practical Step-By-Step Course For Beginners
Text-To-Speech: Tips
Marking Up Text-To-Speech Files – Basic Tips
Marking Up Text-To-Speech Files – Power Tips
Creating Voice Narrations For Screen Video Recordings
Creating Voice Narrations For Video Overdubs
Troubleshooting
Closing Thoughts
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Text-To-Speech: Tips
Marking Up Text-To-Speech Files – Basic Tips
• Manage Your Expectations: TTS technology is great, but it's not perfect, and will keep improving.
• Understand Text-To-Speech Processes: Marking up text & converting text to audio. Review all
course videos and accompanying documentation.
• Access & Knowledge Of Tools: Know how to access and use tools (see "TTS Tools" lesson).
• Plain Text Files: Use plain text files when marking up text.
• Work On Copies: Preserve original content files for other uses.
• UTF-8: Save text files in UTF-8 format if using phonetic symbols (see "Text Pronunciation" tutorial).
Master The Basics Before Getting Started!
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Text-To-Speech: Tips
How To Mark Up Your
Text Files: Step-By-
Step Walkthrough …
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Text-To-Speech: Tips
Marking Up Text-To-Speech Files – Power Tips
• Swipe File: Create a "cheat sheet" / "swipe file" with commonly used SSML tags and text snippets.
• Invest Time Into Marking Up Text: Get narration sounding as close to lifelike as you can.
• Get Your Narrations Right: Your voice narrator will do a great job … every time!
• Match The Voice To The Narration: Become familiar with the different voices and voice personalities and
choose the right voice for the job. Google & Amazon Polly offer a range of voices in different languages.
• Improve Your Message: Use the recorded audios as feedback to improve your copywriting skills, create
more effective sales messages, write more powerful scripts, etc.
• Repurpose Your Text: Use the same script in different applications, use different languages, etc.
• Break Down Large Files: Break down large text files into smaller segments before converting to audio.
• Music: Adding music to the background can take the artificial edge off AI narrations.
Improve Your TTS Workflow & Get Better Results!
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Text-To-Speech: Using Music & Visuals With AI Narrations
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Creating Voice Narrations For Screen Video Recordings
How To Create Audio Tracks That Will Sync Naturally With Your Video:
• Record a "rough guide" audio track with human voice to create a natural feel for your screencast recording.
• If using a tool like Camtasia that can separate video and audio tracks during the editing process, then don't
worry about recording a low-quality audio track with umms and ahhs, coughing, sneezing, dogs barking in
the background, traffic sounds, interruptions, mistakes, etc. as you will not be using this track in the final
edit.
• Transcribe your audio and improve your text narration.
• Write each sentence on a separate line and add pauses between sentences using break tags.
• Convert your text into an audio file narration.
• Add, edit, and match the synthetic voice narration audio file to screen video recordings.
• Switch off or delete human voice track to create a finished video with a natural feel and a great narration!
Create A Rough Guide (Human), Then Replace With A Well-Thought-Out Narration (Synthetic)
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Creating Voice Narrations For Videos
Creating Audio For Slide Presentation Videos: Slide Change Marker
Create "Slide Change" Marker - Spoken:
<speak>
<break time="1s"/>Change Slide<break time="2s"/>
</speak>
Create "Slide Change" Marker - Sound:
<speak>
<break time="1s"/>
<say-as interpret-as="expletive">bleep</say-as>
<break time="3s"/>
</speak>
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Text-To-Speech - Tips
Adding Text
Corrections To Your
Audio Narrations …
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Troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting
If You Experience Errors or Problems …
• Can't Log In? Check your login details or contact software developer helpdesk / support.
• Check for missing/additional SSML tags in text (e.g. opening and closing tags).
• Check opening & closing tags for missing elements (e.g. < > : " )
• Check text file for markup tag errors, fix, resave, reupload, and re-run file.
• Check that you uploaded text file.
• Check that you haven't exceeded limits (e.g. too many characters or audio links in text).
• Break down large text files into smaller segments, convert these into audio files, and check results
to isolate and correct mistakes or sections of the file that may be causing issues.
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Closing Thoughts …
What To Do After Completing This Course …
• Download "TTS Tools & Resources" and "Cheat Sheet" documentation.
• Familiarize yourself with the tools – where to access & how to use these.
• Begin applying your new skills – if you have a website, create narrations for your sales videos,
training videos, spoken web pages, start a podcast, turn newsletters into audio content for
subscribers, etc.
• Challenge yourself – start a new audio-based project or recreate an existing work using synthetic
voice narrations.
• Start a business offering professional text-to-speech services.
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Closing Thoughts …
What You Can Do Using
TTS Is Only Limited By
Your Imagination!
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How To Create Text-To-Speech Audio Files:
A Practical Step-By-Step Course For Beginners
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How To Create Text-To-Speech Audio Files:
A Practical Step-By-Step Course For Beginners
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