Spoken Integrates Hume AI to Help Storytellers Tell Stories With More Emotion
Spoken has integrated Hume AI’s Text-to-Speech as the team here strives to offer intuitive, engaging audio performances for its authors. "Spoken's integration of Hume AI is empowering authors to create more emotionally resonant, performance-driven audiobooks. The voices are studio grade, emotive, and, with Hume, we’re now able to cast voices for teen and children characters. That’s something our fiction authors in particular have been asking for,” said Spoken CEO and Founder Phil Marshall.
Hume AI Chief Operating Officer Janet Ho elaborated on how Spoken is utilizing Hume’s voices. “Phil and his team have designed an intuitive technology that’s evolving at a fast pace. We’ve witnessed their progress in beta and are excited to see their product in full production. When they came to us in search of a voice partner, our focus on highly empathetic voices was a perfect fit. Now, as we listen to the stories that are streaming on Spoken with Hume AI voices, we can hear for ourselves what a great collaboration this is.”
As Spoken nears the end of its beta phase, we’re positioned to be a go-to resource for authors and their publishing and distribution partners. Breakthrough and bestselling authors alike are using Spoken’s studio and Hume’s voices to create audio projects that never would have been heard before, whether single narrator, dual narrator or multi-cast, and across every genre.
Spoken author Jessica Wheeler shared her recent experience in using the platform’s automated option for voice generation, “I absolutely love the generator. I feel like the quality is even better.” She also elaborated on the addition of Hume voices to Spoken’s library. “I”m very excited about the different ages for voice selections. The Hume voices are really good! Getting a child's voice is huge and I know other authors on Spoken are requesting that quite a bit.”
Marshall is utilizing the Spoken studio to narrate and promote his own debut science fiction novel, Taming the Perilous Skies, which is scheduled to release in September. “We founded Spoken to give indie authors like myself an accessible and affordable path to success with producing high-quality audio. We’re thrilled to partner with Hume AI to help us achieve that goal.”
Some of the most sought–after creator features in AI narration are found within the Spoken studio experience, including:
Automated analysis of story for summary, comparable works, smart topic tags, and safety ratings
Automated analysis of narrative style and every character for automated custom voice narration
Emotive voices across all languages and demographics
Fine-tuning control over pitch, emotion, volume, speed and delivery of every passage, with audiobook quality mastering to ensure a great end result
Options for single, multi-cast and dual narration (we heard ya, romance writers)
Personal voice cloning and real-life voice recording for personalized introductions
Custom pronunciation lexicon to ensure unique words sound perfect (yep, we heard you too, sci-fi crowd)
Marketing assets to use on social channels, websites and newsletters
Chapter excerpts to use as lead magnets teasers for multi-chapter audiobooks, sample projects, short works, etc.
To listen to or create a narrated audio project on Spoken, visit www.spoken.press and follow @spoken.press on social.
