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Organizations wanting a tool to develop custom voice models for personalized and natural-sounding speech synthesis applications
About Chirp 3
Google Cloud's Text-to-Speech API introduces Chirp 3, enabling users to create personalized voice models using their own high-quality audio recordings. This feature facilitates the rapid generation of custom voices, which can be utilized to synthesize audio through the Cloud Text-to-Speech API, supporting both streaming and long-form text. Access to this voice cloning capability is restricted to allow-listed users due to safety considerations; interested parties should contact the sales team to be added to the allowed list. Instant Custom Voice creation and synthesis are supported in various languages, including English (US), Spanish (US), and French (Canada), among others. It is available in multiple Google Cloud regions, and supported output formats include LINEAR16, OGG_OPUS, PCM, ALAW, MULAW, and MP3, depending on the API method used.
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Google
Founded: 1998
United States
cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-instant-custom-voice
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