Text-to-speech converts written words into a lifelike voice. Quality now rivals human recordings, and streaming variants start speaking before the whole text is ready, which matters for live assistants. Voice cloning is a sensitive extension of TTS.
The book · Volume 6 of 7
AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Models and Inference to Computer Vision, Speech, Search, and Generative Video
TTS choices decide whether a voice-over, dub or assistant sounds natural and how much each spoken minute costs. Volume 6 covers speech in detail, TTS alongside ASR and diarization, plus the AI feature lifecycle and deployment topologies, so you can choose between hosted and self-hosted TTS for your video product. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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