I'm curious about this product as well, i just wonder what are the rights on the voices the software uses.
To my knowledge all the TTS engine producers require a special commercial license for publishing the generated voice sounds online.The software itself is not expensive but can lead to big legal issues if voices does not come with commercial rights and the generated video files are published on YouTube for example. I have not seen anything about that on the sales page.

Cheers,

Here is a quick voice sample.

TTS Video Maker Test - YouTube
Unfortunately I was not able to get the captions/slides to work properly but I must admit I have not yet read or watched any of the documentation. Once I get some more time I will see if I can get the software running properly.

Cheers

-don

Hey, this looks just like something I need. TTS is one of the better ones I encountered lately and in my opinion, I'd pay the price just for TTS without video creation. Never considered legal stuff with voice overs before, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!

To be honest, I had wrongly imagined this cute piece of software to be similar in functionality (albeit with 6 voices, not 70) to slidetalk. Slidetalk is very limited: images and voices, with or without music. Very basic controls but enough bang for the 5 bucks per commercially usable video (and even cheaper on the Business subscription).
Oh well... we live, we learn!
If they keep improving the software, though, I promise to eat all my negative comments!

@ funprojects

Yeah, I was hoping Jimmy would put out a quick update but I guess not this quick. Are you experiencing any crashing issues when you try to delete photos that you have already selected into the software?

-don

A small sorta off-topic update --> I finally received my bonuses from Mao 8 days after purchase.

Cheers

-don

@ funprojects

Yeah, the only real info I have found on the Google voices so far was referencing the "old" Google Translate. Have you asked Jimmy directly about the actual voice licenses? I have read his legal info that he provides with the software...

As far as purchasing and using PLR graphics it certainly can be a risk. In-fact most of the graphics PLR I use I try to purchase directly from the graphic artist, photographer or image artist that created or rendered the images. If not purchased directly I still try to know who the original source of the images is/was and what the original license terms were.

One of the most common ways of checking to see if the images were pirated (or legal) is by using reverse image searches that are available online like Google and TinEye and then cross checking the sites they are presented on. Sometimes it easy to see the image was pirated, other times you can make pretty good assumptions on the legality of the images but it all depends on how much time you want to spend on "verification".

It might be easiest (and safest) to just to avoid most of the PLR that you don't know who the original source is. Some folks believe that you can hide behind a bogus third party license, but I don't think that legal strategy will hold up all that well depending the original source of the images, and how the package was obtained and presented. IMO many of those "licenses" are not worth the notepad page they were "printed" on.

Unfortunately I am not sure when then shooting will start as it seems this problem has been getting exponentially worse for over a decade. The big fight to keep the internet "free" has not been all that beneficial to folks trying to protect their images, videos, art and other intellectual properties. The explosion of social media has also contributed to the piracy problem in a very big way --> and now it is such a large problem it will difficult for anyone to reign it back in.

Cheers

-don

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Moreno, thanks for your feedback. Would be nice if you share you superior voices with the rest; preferably untweaked (like our demos).
The debate on whether to use or not to use TTS would sidetrack this topic unnecessarily. My thoughts boil down to "horses for courses" (no pun intended as I mostly do elearning). Would be happy to discuss but we should keep this rthread on-topic, I guess.

ForumGuru, is that CrazyTalk?

Good news, guys! Jimmy replied regarding the TTS rights. I asked in the email:
Can we safely make products not for private use but for commercial distribution?
He wrote back, saying:
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Reading this thread is scaring me to death.
I was within inches of putting up a slideshow on PIntererst with the voice over that I had found on a "free site" from the UK. All you had to do was to type in the text up to 300 characters and the voice would read it.

I have en email mailed to them now to get more information, but I don't know.
I really wanted that British accent because I'm Southern and I don't like my accent.

I'm also from Nashville and I have heard rumors that some of the stars go to voice coaches to get the "accent" because a lot of them are not even Southern any more.

So I tried my voice out on audacity and it's okay, not as good as the British one, but it will probably pass. I just don't want any trouble.

I'd like to buy this but want to know it legal to use for business videos. I'm using some other software I bought that only has a male TSS voice and believe it's commercial free. The Warrior marketer is also the developer and make fixes and enhancements very fast.

You should wait about 9 more days...Jimmy is releasing a new version that has multiple voices, male and female, and different languages, plus a better looking output that will create a video from both video clips and images, plus sync the captions to each video clip or photo frame. Much better overall. Launch date is October 14th.

One of the new male voices and two of the new female voices sound pretty good, better than the female voice of the first version. He's calling it something else though - TTS Video Studio. You can get on the Early Bird list for it and listen to voice samples at the site.

If you listen to the demo voices at TTS Video Studio: Create Amazing Text To Voice Videos in Minutes, they sound very robotic to me. What do you guys think?

Could you both stop quoting the full text of the post immediately above it? Think about people who are reading this conversation.

So seller creates TTS Video Maker and after a few weeks he creates TTS Video Studio.

According to his last email "TTS Video Studio is like jumping from Windows 95 to Windows 8". So I guess TTS Video Maker is like Window 95...

It is funny because in TTS Video Maker sales page we can read this great "testimonial":

"TTS Video Maker is the most amazing piece of software that I've ever got, it's a GAME CHANGER!"

Well... I think I will wait for ANOTHER seller comes out with Windows 10! Can't trust this one anymore - blacklisted

@GRF Yes, it will be available for sale tomorrow for sure.

Still not sure about the licence details, but you'll be able to use the videos you create and the voices with those videos commercially.

I count 3 different US voices, 4 UK voices, 1 Spanish, 1 Mexican Spanish, and then Dutch, Czech, Danish, French, German, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, and Swedish.

@GRF, No restriction means no restriction, GRF. The voice files are created separately from the video files. That's why he has it written "..the voices and the videos you create..." You can create voice files alone. You don't need to create a video file at all. We don't.

Regarding TTS Video STUDIO. I listened to the demos on the sales page and they actually sound halfway decent,

Any opinions from buyers who have tested it? Do they sound as good in your own creations?

I am just looking to use the audios.

Cheers

Pete

@peterj, Yes, the voices are decent. I wouldn't personally use them for a video sales letter, but for standard YouTube type of preselling and video tutorials (in some cases), they will be great for that, imo.

@GRF, You don't export the audio. When you click the "Text To Speech" button, it processes the audio and you'll find a copy of it inside the project folder.

Look down at the blue link that says "Open Project's Folder" beside the tabs "Video Output, Captions, Effects". Click on that and you'll see the "Audio" folder.

This is an edit to the post below. Jimmy did get in contact with me and I did finally get TTS Video Studio downloaded. And I got a good email for him. - Thanks Jimmy Mancini.
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The JVzoo "Access your Product" link take you to a page where nothing works.

download stalled at: @ 5, 441 KB 3 times.

Links to Demo Video, FAQ and How To Video are Broke.

My email to help@ttsvideostudio.com BOUNCED Twice through my Internet Provider Email.

Did get an auto response using Gmail. It has a link to an FAQ Page that just says:

"COMING SOON"

Has this guy put out such a piece of crap he's gone into hiding or is it so bad he's just overloaded with support email?

I'm Back At It.

@clagg, sent you a pm. Maybe it will help.

Hi, guys! I think it is simply brilliant at doing what it can do - generate TTS voice-overs for static slides and assemble a simple video (and the intro/outro option is a great add-on, in my opinion). I think the voices are Google's own - but Jimmy will correct me, if I'm wrong.

I have had no problems getting it to do what it does best - generate voice-overs - after I stopped bitching about its limitations (sounds a bit robotic; limited control/no SSML; crashes when you insert an animated gif; unnatural prosody when the sentence is too long) until it dawned on me that instead of trying to make it do what it can't do, I'd better focus on what it can do for me. It's great at producing infovideos, explainers, product overviews - but it won't get warm and fuzzy and chirrupy and seduce anyone into buying some crappy product just cos the presenter's cute.

Will try to sum up:

• Problem: sounds robotic My solution: this is not always bad; in fact, we can use it to our advantage. The quality is acceptable, it doesn't irritate people. Some studies on UX have suggested that TTS-powered virtual assistants increase the trust factor, they are perceived as unbiased, objective, "not trying to sell me something". They are great for delivering information. Sometimes emotions may get in the way and blur our judgement - imagine Todd Gross delivering messages at the airport?
• Problem: need to format text properly - you can't just paste, click and get the video you want True to some extent; there is room for improvement - for example, use some special character, not the full stop, to enable transition from one slide to another. At some point the screen gets too cluttered. Depending on the project, you might be better off just generating the audio, and then using the mp3 file with any other software - PPT, Camtasia, whatever you need. If you are serious about using TTS in your projects, sooner or later you will need a proper SSML editor; until then, TTS Video Suite will do the job.However, for simple jobs ( Amazon product review in 10 languages, anyone?) this is good enough!

Overall, until PPT guys add TTS with free voices so that the output can be distributed commercially, I will keep the TTS Video Studio. It does what it says on the box. Unfortunately, I can't compare it to Video Blaster as I don't have it; judging from the description, it is a product intended to meet different needs so comparing the two might be as pointless as comparing apples and pears. But... why buy a bicycle if you need a car?

How does TTS Video Studio compare with Video Alchemy, which is another, similar product? I'm not finding a review for VA at this board, but maybe someone here has tried it out.

How or where do I purchase TTS Video Studio?

JVZoo links to And then on there, purchase now link scrolls up to
Which does nothing but shows pricing.

@Blazon1

I have them both but unfortunately I have not had time to check them out very well. VA is based on templates (only 15-20 come with it standard) sorta like VideoMakerFx --> but so far I have not found a way to play back the TTS before the video is rendered which is not a good way to go. The software has a lot of voices, and some voice control, and it will scrape articles and spin them, but I am more concerned about hearing how the TTS sounds before I take the time to render the video. If I get some extra time I will try to post a bit more...

@atlanta2008

Scroll almost all the way to the bottom of the main sales page and you should see 3 large buy now buttons. I clicked on the buttons and they did take me to the JVZoo checkout page.

Cheers

-don

@Blazon1

The creators of VA sent an email saying an update is coming that will allow previewing the TTS prior to encoding as well as a feature to allow straight slides and images. They promise more updates are coming as well...

Cheers

-don

http://goo.gl/0qSpqN

Found it!
For some reason Buy button is not showing in my browser , by clicking on the bottom area i was able to hit the "invisible " link and purchased. thanks!

Does anyone have a "cheat sheet" on the various punctuations you can use for inflections in the voice.

Things like use of a "." or "," or NEW LINE, etc. ?

@ GRF

If I understand correctly you want to use an audio file that has both the TTS voice and background music combined. This software does not create an audio only file that has both of the music and voice so you will need to use a third party software like the free version of Any Video Converter.

What you will need to do is render the video in Jimmy's software that has both the the music and the voice, and then use Any Video Converter to "convert" that video file to an audio only file which is quick and quite easy to do.

I tried this and it worked fine but the background music I used was longer than the TTS audio so Jimmy's software automatically faded the music at the end of the video.

AVC is a tool I use a lot and it works relatively well. If you install AVC make sure you don't install any additional junk that may be offered on the install.

Cheers

-don

After playing around with this program and TTS Spin Blaster Pro, TTS Spin Blaster Pro is light years ahead of TTS Video Studio in terms of ease of use and features. The one thing the have in common is has the voice of John in TTS Spin Blaster Pro which sounds more robotic than the other voices in TTS Video Studio.

I just wish TTS Spin Blaster Pro has the other voices like Giselle but they can't be added at this time. The only thing TTS Video Studio is really good for is the voices.

Does anyone know how to contact Jimmy Mancini? I applied via JVZoo to be an affiliate of TTS Video Studio but it's been in the "Pending" state for days.

Thanks

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Does anyone know how to sign up for an affiliate link other than going to JVZoo?

I want to promote TSS Video Studio and even sent a personal message to Jimmy Mancini to become an affiliate, but still no reply.

I applied via JVZoo and was approved and I have also contacted him through Facebook. I doubt very much that he is approving everyone that applies, so maybe he has overlooked some folks that do not have a proven track record. He promoted my current stock image pack, and he made a good number of sales, so he knew who I was when I applied and he could see that I had a track record selling on the Zoo.

If you have a proven track record then maybe you should try contacting him through support or Facebook.

Best of luck.

Cheers

-don

A separate audio file is created ---> as you see in this post I have imported it into another software.

http://www.warriorforum.com/internet...ml#post9428325

Cheers

-don

Actually, that was made with one of the voices I already own. Here is a quick demo I just did of one of the voices included in TTS Video Studio.

TTS Video Studio Voice Demo - YouTube
Cheers

-don

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Hi, to all.

I have studied this discussion as I bought the program recently.

I mainly bought it for the voice TTS thing, as I can produce video with voiceover legally (I think) and then edit the whole thing in Camtasia, and the voice in Audacity.

In that respect the purchase meets my needs--and the voices are not too tinny, and can be made to sound very proffesional with post editing in other programs.

I had to buy the Pro Plus version after buying the Pro Version.

It did not dawn on me that with the pro version you can only produce 5 video projects.

I personally think that is bad practice, sorry--selling a pro video creator that only produces 5 videos? I think you should just sell one version, the pro plus, my 2 shillings.

regards

Jim

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