Leveraging Machine Learning in Text-to-Speech Tools and Applications.

Leveraging Machine Learning in Text-toSpeech Tools and Applications.

Originally developed as an automated tool for the service of visually impaired people, text to speech (or TTS) has emerged as a preferred tool for many technology service providers for improving customer service. In simple language, a TTS tool converts written text into natural speech that can be heard and understood by any human user.

How does Text to Speech Service Work?

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Text to Speech technology has evolved over the last few decades and has been enabled by various underlying technologies including deep learning tools like machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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For example, based on machine learning, the use of speech synthesis in TTS has enabled the artificial rendering of human-like speech in computer systems.

Applications of Text to Speech Services TTS services are currently used in a variety of industry-wide applications including those that cater to:

Scanning and reading of a printed text

Thanks to its integration with Optical character recognition (or OCR) technology, TTS tools can be used in devices like reading pens that scan printed text (from any source) and convert them into digital text or read-back text.

Children with learning disabilities

TTS tools can be a boon for children with learning disabilities like dyslexia that makes it challenging for them to read large volumes of written text.

Text-to-speech technology converts any digital content including website content, online E-books, PDF files, and even online “news� content into audio content that consumers can listen to on their personal devices while on the move.

Providing content on any device

Customer service

Text-to-speech technology can enhance the customer service function of any business through the use of automated (but natural-sounding) voices.

TTS tools can be used to optimize automated voice commands and interactive voice response (or IVR) systems to embrace human-like speech and languages that can engage with a larger customer base

Digital publishing

TTS tools can benefit online publishers and website content owners by increasing the accessibility and market reach for their online content to a wider customer base.

Corporate training

TTS tools can enhance the mode of delivering corporate learning modules from HR services and e-learning specialists.

With downloadable audio files, employees can pace their own learning and time, thus improving employee productivity in the long run.

How Text-to-Speech Tools Benefits Business & Customers

Be it a product (or service) user or an online learner, Text to speech technology can service any individual in the way they interact with content. Some of the industry-wide benefits of TTS services include:

• Ease of use for users in any age group (from children to older adults) along with the convenience of accessing content in the mode—visual or auditory—of their choice.

• Improved customer experience in the form of speech-enabled customer service that enable a personalized user experience and reduces operational costs for businesses.

• Free to use tools (like Audiofont) that are very easy to use and require no login or registration.

• Support for multiple languages that can enhance the business reach to a wider customer base across the globe.

• Increased accessibility to potential customers with illiteracy or lack of reading skills through spoken language that is easy to follow and understand.

• Saves time and money through the deployment of free TTS tools on cloud-based or SaaS platforms that ensure quick deployment and require minimum maintenance.

• Increased mobility for on-the-move users who can tune into TTS-enabled apps when travelling or even when working at their desk. • The global increase in the adoption of connected devices using Internet of Things (or IoT) technology presents a market opportunity for TTS tools as it provides a more user-friendly mode of communicating with their customers and ensures convenience for users browsing through digital content on their personal devices.

Conclusion

Designed to convert large volumes of text or a complete website URL in the browser, Audiofont (developed by Countants) is a text-to-speech tool that enables you to listen to any form of content on your personal devices

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