Professional, Amateur Machine Voice Over Services India WordPar International
In this article we compare and
contrast the different kinds of voiceover options that are available to us
today. The article aims at making an informed choice.
There are two
broad categories of voice options available today. Artificial or machine voice,
and a natural human voice.
Artificial voices
are of two kinds.
1. Synthetic Voices:
These are truly artificial sounds, developed using
machines. The smalls small elements, called ‘phonemes’ are artificially
generated and using software and algorithms and rules of orthography of the
respective languages, are trained to pronounce words based on these phonemes. These
sounds lack the natural feel and are often described as robotic, artificial and
lacking in emotiveness. The voices are monotonous, and completely devoid of
modulation and emotion.
- Artificial
Intelligence-based Voices:
These are based on deep learning. Human voices are recorded to cover a wide range of phonemic combinations and intonation, such that they can be reproduced to create new renditions for completely different texts. The quality of these voices is improving day by day as more and more work is going into artificial intelligence and deep learning and computational linguistics.
Human voices on the other hand, are recorded by real human beings, while reading from a script. All the attributes of human understanding and rendition come into play and the listen is natural and emotive. Human voiceovers can be amateur or professional.
1. Amateur artistes
will usually record their voice overs using
non-professional equipment such as phones and personal computers. Their voices
are inexperienced and the recordings lack the professional touch. They will be
marked by background noise, reverberation, breathing sounds, salivation and
fricative noises.
2. Professional voice artistes
record in professional studios. The voiceovers reflect deep experience and keen knowledge of modulation and intonation. Depending on the level of experience, a professional voiceover will be clean of salivation, breathing sounds and reverberation. There is almost no background sound. All files are studio edited and cleaned for pleasurable listening.
Pros
and Cons
The choice of voiceover takes into account the
following factors:
- duration
- legality
- cost
- control
- production
time
- purpose and
- output quality
Synthetic
Voice
These are cheap
and the creator has easy control. The creator can manipulate the voices merely
by editing the text. However, the output is robotic and sounds unnatural. It
lacks modulation and gets monotonous beyond a few minutes. These are best
suited for simple navigation, interactive voice response systems, and
narrations not extending a minute or two.
Artificial
Intelligence Voices
These can be used
for longer sessions such as e-learning modules and slightly longer narrations.
These are cheaper and give greater control and allow for engineering and
manipulation of intonation, pace and other prosodic features. AI voices are
getting better and better and some voices are better than others. The advantage
is that professional sounding voices are available where human voices are not.
The limitation is
that it lacks flexibility especially when it comes to acronyms, foreign terms
and switching between languages. This methodology is absolutely discouraged for
entertainment purposes. Also, the amount of work required in coding the prosody
is quite a lot – which makes it almost as expensive as human voiceover, without
the flexibility that one has with a natural human voice.
Further, when we
take a multilingual perspective, we will see that not all languages have evolved
AI voice software. Whereas some countries have very advanced AI options such as
English, French and German, many are yet to reach the desired level of
‘naturalness’ and ‘flexibility’ in the range of emoting. Some of the better
evolved languages available besides English, French and German are Chinese and
Arabic. Unfortunately, Indian languages are not very well developed in AI.
Hence for a developer, it is not an easy choice and the same parameters cannot
be applied across the board in multilingual projects.
There are several
AI based text-to-speech software available today. Some of the more famous ones
are :
Human
vs. Artificial Voices
The dialectic
boils down to cost versus quality ultimately. Turnaround time and convenience
play an important role too. An artificial voice will give us the control and
flexibility for a quick output. But, for professional presentations videos and
films, a professional voiceover will provide clarity and emotiveness. The punch
words are effectiveness and IMPACT.
Amateur
vs. Professional Human Voice
While choosing
among human voice options, we have other issues to consider. An amateur may
take five to ten takes where a professional artiste will take only two or just
one. An amateur may not provide a clean voice where a professional voice
artiste will provide a hassle-free, studio-ready recording that requires no
further editing.
WordPar
International endorses the use of professional human voices as well as machine
voices based on AI. We have a large network of professional voice actors as
well as a group of linguists who will produce tailor-made voiceovers using AI
software. Our team of artistes and linguists are reliable and produce high
quality work.
WordPar
discourages the use of synthetic machine voices and engaging amateur human
voice actors.
What We Offer
WordPar
International endorses the use of professional human voices as well as machine
voices based on AI. We have a large network of professional voice actors as
well as a group of linguists who will produce tailor-made voiceovers using AI
software. Our team of artistes and linguists are reliable and produce high
quality work.
WordPar
discourages the use of synthetic machine voices and engaging amateur human
voice actors.
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WordPar Voice Over Services India, Kindly visit us on https://www.wordpar.com/voiceover/
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