PlayAI
About PlayAI
Introduction
At PlayHT, our vision is to redefine human interactions with AI agents. Whether it’s for customer support or sales calls, AI tutors, or bringing Gaming NPCs to life, our goal is to revolutionize the way humans communicate with generative AI agents.
Today we announce our latest milestone on the road to fulfilling that vision: the launch of PlayHT Turbo, a new version of our conversational voice model, PlayHT 2.0 that generates speech in under 300ms via network and
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The Problem
- Recording and updating voiceovers is time consuming and tedious work. If you’ve ever tried recording one, you know what we’re talking about.
- Hiring voice actors is expensive. They charge $100-$150 per 75-100 words, plus royalty fee.
- Updating the audio in the future is a hassle because you have to get the same voice.
Our Solution
Highly expressive generative voice AI with voice cloning capabilities.
We’re solving this problem by building voice models that are trained on LLMs so they can understand the context of the text passed to them. The models are capable of cloning any voice with near perfect results with just 10 minutes of recordings.
There are two ways we offer our models -
- We offer a diverse library of 100+ high quality fine-tuned voices that creators can start using right away.
- We allowing creators to clone their voices and use those for creating new or update existing content.
We’ve built a text to voice editor and an API for people to access and interact with these voices.
Our story
- We started Play.ht with a chrome extension to listen to articles.
- As a way to grow, we built audio player widgets for bloggers that had a ‘powered by play.ht’ link. This turned into a product that people started paying for.
- A big problem bloggers had was to edit the text before converting it to audio. At that time, we piggy backed on other TTS APIs and built a robust TTS editor to help solve this issue.
- People started using our editor to create voiceovers and we realized a bigger need and made a pivot to build our own TTS models that are now used by thousands of people from individual creators to teams at Fortune 500 companies.
Our Ask 🙏
- We’ve opened up access to our voice cloning tool for the launch period. Try cloning your voice and share an audio sample on social to help spread the word.
- If you run a popular YouTube channel, podcast, newsletter or have lots of Twitter followers - we’d love to clone your voice and show it to your audience!
- If you or anyone you know might be interested in using our models please introduce us to them or reach out to us.
- We offer an API that gives access to our voices, please try it out and share any feedback you have -
- Interested in working with us? Reach out!
You can reach out us at [email protected] and [email protected].
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