{"id":306,"date":"2023-08-24T16:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T17:13:07","slug":"google-tts-voices-added-to-sitepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Google TTS Voices Added  to SitePal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019ve just completed our first&nbsp;3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;Party Text-To-Speech&nbsp;integration&nbsp;\u2013 with Google Cloud TTS leading the way. This integration adds 284 Google voices to SitePal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before proceeding we\u2019d like to make clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Using the new voices requires integrating your Google Cloud account with your SitePal account. This is done by adding your Google API key to your SitePal account\u2019s \u201cConnect\u201d page.&nbsp;This is not difficult and requires no coding. <\/li><li>Thus the cost of generating the Google voices (if any) is borne by you,&nbsp;and not included in the&nbsp;SitePal&nbsp;subscription cost.&nbsp;Please bear in mind.<\/li><li>3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;Party TTS voice integration requires the SitePal Platinum Plan.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;integration&nbsp;covers&nbsp;Google\u2019s&nbsp;Standard, Wavenet&nbsp;&amp; Neural&nbsp;voices. For a complete list of the added voices, see our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/docs\/vhost_API_Reference.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">API Reference<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 see Engine 11 in Appendix B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To try out the newly added voices,&nbsp;see:<a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/text-to-speech\/docs\/voices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp; https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/text-to-speech\/docs\/voices<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: some newly added Google Voices might not yet be available in SitePal, we&#8217;ll be adding those periodically.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google voices can now be used in SitePal just like any of our built-in voices. The new voices can be used either Statically or Dynamically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statically \u2013 created using the UI in your SitePal account, and then assigned to your Scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dynamically \u2013 real time via the SitePal API. Response times and performance are excellent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/wp-sp-blog\/uploads\/2023\/08\/google-cloud-voices.png\" alt=\"Google TTS Voices\" class=\"wp-image-307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/wp-sp-blog\/uploads\/2023\/08\/google-cloud-voices.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/wp-sp-blog\/uploads\/2023\/08\/google-cloud-voices-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/wp-sp-blog\/uploads\/2023\/08\/google-cloud-voices-768x486.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tips:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>If the audios that your avatar will speak are known in advance, it would be best to manually create, name &amp; save the audios in your SitePal account, and then use the \u201csayAudio\u201d API call to invoke speech dynamically (as opposed to using \u201csayText\u201d). Doing so means that we will not access the Google API at runtime, thereby saving usage costs.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Separately \u2013 it\u2019s worth noting that SitePal caches dynamic TTS and if an audio is frequently used it will likely be delivered from the cache. This optimization is built-in \u2013 you don\u2019t need to do anything to turn it on.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re working on integrating additional 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;Party TTS providers, with AWS Poly, MS-Azure and Eleven Labs next on our list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last but not least!&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;we\u2019ve recently introduced great new Robotic&nbsp;characters, available now to all SitePal plans. Check out our entire collection here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.sitepal.com\/collection<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/wp-sp-blog\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1200x630_robots2-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/wp-sp-blog\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1200x630_robots2-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/wp-sp-blog\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1200x630_robots2-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/wp-sp-blog\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1200x630_robots2-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/blog\/wp-sp-blog\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1200x630_robots2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>New Robot avatars. Each of them has several alternates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warm Regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SitePal Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitepal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.sitepal.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>What does your site say?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve just completed our first&nbsp;3rd&nbsp;Party Text-To-Speech&nbsp;integration&nbsp;\u2013 with Google Cloud TTS leading the way. This integration adds 284 Google voices to SitePal.&nbsp; Before proceeding we\u2019d like to make clear: Using the new voices requires integrating your Google Cloud account with your SitePal account. 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