Yahoo

Disney character text-to-speech voices on TikTok briefly censored words like 'gay' and 'queer'

Disney text-to-speech voices on TikTok were unable to say "gay," "lesbian," and "queer" for several days.Daniel Constante/Shutterstock Disney rolled out text-to-speech voices for characters like ...
Business Wire

ReadSpeaker Enables Dynamic Text-to-Speech Industry With 1.4 Trillion Characters Converted Into Speech in 2021

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ReadSpeaker, the most trusted, independent digital voice partner for global businesses, today announced that its solutions have enabled 1.4 trillion characters to be converted ...
Variety

Disney Teams With TikTok to Add Text-to-Speech Voices for Characters From Star Wars, Marvel and More

Soon you’ll be able to make your TikTok posts growl like Chewbacca — or snark like Rocket Racoon. As part of Disney‘s sprawling Disney Plus Day festivities, the company unveiled a partnership with ...
IGN

TikTok Will Now Let Your Text-to-Speech Sound Like Chewbacca, C-3PO and More

TikTok will soon let you create posts featuring a range of text-to-speech voiceover options from various Disney characters. Announced as part of Disney's celebratory Disney+ Day on Twitter (and ...
Concept Phones

How to Use CapCut Text to Speech for Perfect Voiceovers Every Time

If you create videos for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Reels, or business content, a good voiceover can instantly make your story ...

Google expands Gemini 2.5 Text-to-Speech with enhanced expressivity, context-aware pacing, and multilingual support

Google has announced updates to its Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro Text-to-Speech (TTS) preview models. The improvements ...
ZDNet

This new text-to-speech AI model understands what it's saying - how to try it for free

Text-to-speech AI models are a great tool for instances where human voice actors are typically used, such as audiobooks, dubbing, commercials, and more. However, because these models are not human and ...
The Verge

Disney partners with TikTok for official text-to-speech voices from Stitch, Chewbacca, Rocket Raccoon, and more

A Disney Plus Day promotion lets you make C-3PO say anything A Disney Plus Day promotion lets you make C-3PO say anything Using the voices works similarly to the regular text-to-speech voices on ...
Gizmodo

Disney Censored ‘Gay’ and ‘Lesbian’ in Tiktok Text-To-Speech Character Voices

As part of its Disney Plus Day promotion last week, Disney partnered with TikTok to release a suite of text-to-speech voices featuring beloved characters like Chewbacca and Stitch from Lilo and Stitch ...
Engadget

Ubisoft accidentally used text-to-speech to voice a character in the new Prince of Persia game

Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown launches next week, but players are likely to encounter an amusing bug as they make their way through the game, as reported by IGN. One of the game’s NPCs is ...
Business Insider

Disney character text-to-speech voices on TikTok briefly censored words like 'gay' and 'queer'

Disney rolled out text-to-speech voices for characters like Rocket Raccoon on TikTok. The voices were unable to say "gay," "lesbian," or "queer" after their Friday rollout. On Monday, The Verge ...