The latest speech technology produces a natural voice-over from any text input. Not robotic any more, but still a bit boring and monotonous.
Speech-Over livens up TTS voices by adding the pauses and accents of a real professional voice over. Developers add special pause punctuation in the text with the SAPI editor following simple grammar-based guidelines.
Speech-Over provides three types of pause punctuation:
- "|" - A short rhetorical pause to break a sentence into clauses and phrases and to accent words.
- "—" - A pause of half a second to separate a phrase.
- "¶" - A long pause to separate major ideas.
And, developers can modulate voice speed, pitch and volume and adjust the pronunciation of difficult words and expressions.