Build an advanced Text-to-Voice AI converter yourself

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Hello and welcome to Build AI tool yourself

In this article, we will learn how to build an AI-based advanced text-to-voice converter yourself.

It can not only just translate text into voice but also add emotions to the voice. The following textures can be added to the voice

Laughter
Sigh
Gasp
Clearing throat
hesitation
and others

This is what we will be doing.

Text –

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मानवता की पहचान गुणों से होती है.. ना कि ऊंचे सिंहासन पर बैठने से…

महल के उच्च शिखर पर बैठने के बावजूद… कौवे का गरुड़ होना असंभव है।

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Output

AI based advanced text to voice converter tool

We will be using the Bark model from the GitHub repository – https://github.com/suno-ai/bark

And we will be using the Google Colab notebook for the quick demo –

You do not need to install anything for running the above notebook. So, follow the instructions and it will be done.

Let’s begin!

Access the code notebook from here – https://github.com/tayaln/Text-to-Voice-Advanced

To use it, download and then upload it to your Google Drive and open it as a Google Colab file.

Step 1 – Open the Google Colab notebook

You do not need to install anything for running the above notebook. So, just follow the instructions and it will be done.

Step 2 – Run the first cell to install the AI model – Bark

Bark is the model that converts Text to Voice of our choice.

Once it is done, it will show that the model is successfully installed

Step 3 – Import the necessary libraries

Step 4 – Give your text and convert it into voice

You could add your text as well or try running other cells to check the output.

Bark AI model

Bark supports 100 voiceovers in 13 Languages – English, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian and Chinese

Let’s play around a little

Choosing another Voice Over artist

Here is the Bark Speaker Library – https://suno-ai.notion.site/8b8e8749ed514b0cbf3f699013548683?v=bc67cff786b04b50b3ceb756fd05f68c

Have changed the VO from speaker_1 to speaker_8

Choosing another Language

We can also change the language and Bark automatically detects the language

Let’s change it to Hindi. We also need to change the speaker else the Voice would be in Hindi but wth different accent.

Adding Emotions to the Voice

Bark supports the following elements

[laughter]
[laughs]
[sighs]
[music]
[gasps]
[clears throat]
— or ... for hesitations
♪ for song lyrics
CAPITALIZATION for emphasis of a word
[MAN] and [WOMAN] to bias Bark toward male and female speakers, respectively