Examples · General
Give a voice to your characters
In the Studio, write a line, choose one of six voices and download the MP3. Then a short scene with three characters, one voice each. No code.
Beginner · 20 min
What you need
Your ITS INCOM AI account. No code.
1. Open the Studio
Sign in at my.ai.itsincom.org and open Studio in the menu at the top, or go straight to my.ai.itsincom.org/dashboard/studio. The first tab, Voice, is already open.
2. Write a line and choose a voice
In The text to read, write what your character says:
Welcome to the Black Cat, traveller! A room is five silver coins a night.
Choose the Voice. There are six, each made for one language:
- Amy and Ryan, English;
- Paola and Riccardo, Italian;
- Thorsten, German;
- Siwis, French.
Write the text in the language of the voice: an English voice reads an Italian text with English pronunciation.
Click Read it aloud. After a moment the player appears and the line plays. Click Download the MP3 to save it.
Not happy with it? Click Read it aloud again: every take comes out a little different. The new take replaces the old one on the page, so download a take you like before you try another.
3. A scene with three voices
The Studio reads one text with one voice. For a dialogue, make one file per line, each with the voice of its character. The Studio names every download after its voice, like voice-amy.mp3: rename the files in order as you download them.
| File | Character | Voice | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
01-innkeeper.mp3 |
Innkeeper | Amy | Welcome to the Black Cat, traveller! A room is five silver coins a night. |
02-traveller.mp3 |
Traveller | Ryan | Five coins? On the road they told me three. |
03-innkeeper.mp3 |
Innkeeper | Amy | On the road there is no fire and no soup. Five. |
04-bard.mp3 |
Bard | Siwis | Approchez, approchez ! Ce soir, je vous chante la ballade du dragon. |
The bard comes from France, so a French voice reads her line in French: with only two English voices, a third language is a way to give a scene a third character.
To hear the scene as one file, put the MP3s one after the other: drop them in order on the timeline of a video editor, or open them in Audacity, which is free, and line them up on one track. Leave half a second between the lines.
Good to know
- Up to 5,000 characters per text.
- The text is checked before it is read. Stories, villains and battle cries are fine. Sexual content, hate and attacks on real people are not: the Studio says The text goes against the content rules, with the reason. If the check cannot be made for a moment, it says We could not check the text, so it was not read. Try again in a minute.
- Short exclamations, like “Halt!” on its own, can come out unclear: give them a few more words.
- Download what you want to keep: the audio disappears when you leave the page, and after two hours at the latest.
- The MP3 says it was made by AI, in its metadata, and the Studio says so under the player. When you publish a voice, in a video or in a game, say so too.
Exercise
- Read the same line with Amy and with Ryan: which one fits your character?
- Give Amy an Italian sentence. What happens to the pronunciation?
- Write a 30-second radio ad for the school's open day, with two voices.
- Make the opening scene of your own game, or the intro of a podcast, with three voices.
- Add subtitles to your scene with Subtitles for your video.
- Fifty lines? Make them all at once from a spreadsheet: Voice lines for your game.