Glossary · AI Audio
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Text to speech (TTS) is technology that converts written text into spoken audio using synthetic voices. Modern neural TTS — from providers like ElevenLabs, Google Gemini TTS, and xAI — produces speech with natural intonation, pacing, and emotion that is often hard to distinguish from a human recording. It powers voiceovers, audiobooks, avatar videos, and accessibility tools.
Older TTS sounded robotic because it stitched together recorded fragments. Neural TTS instead generates the audio waveform directly from text, modeling rhythm, stress, and emotional tone the way a voice actor would deliver the line.
For video creators, TTS removes the recording bottleneck: scripts become voiceovers in seconds, revisions are just text edits, and many systems offer dozens of voices across languages and styles.
VdoBloom’s text-to-speech tool offers ElevenLabs (Multilingual V2 and Turbo 2.5), Google Gemini Flash TTS, and xAI voices, feeding directly into avatar and faceless-channel workflows.
VdoBloom starts you with 10 free credits — enough to put this into practice with no card required.
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