I've developed a simple AI-powered British accent generator. Enter or paste your text, select the voice that best fits your project's tone, and generate speech for free. It supports up to 500 characters and offers 8 distinct, lifelike voices. Everything runs entirely within your browser.
I'm primarily seeking feedback on output quality, user experience, and any technical improvements worth exploring.
"Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly
"Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday
"Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts
"Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American
"Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent.
Not to be all Henry Higgins, but these are all "placeless" accents and there are no regional accent options. I was looking forward to trying Computer Mancunian. But I can see why for marketing voiceover people want "global neutral British".
UX review: "failed to generate speech". Only the example phrases work.
This is true, but you could also say the same about the phrases "English accent" and "Scottish accent" -- a Scouse accent sounds nothing like RP, and a Highland lilt is very different from the accent in the Gorbals.
And the Appalachian accents of Justified sound very different to the Mid-Atlantic accent of Frasier Crane -- yet to me, as an outsider, there is still an indefinable "Americanness" common to them all.
> there is still an indefinable "Americanness" common to them all
I believe it is more of self fulfilling prophecy imo. Some quality you treat as American AFTER you learn it is an american accent rather than something you see as american before (or regardless of whether) you even know if it is american
People who don't live there, or are selling to people who don't live there?
In the UK we use the phrase "American accent" and it's OK. It means "there exists an American who would use this accent" not "all Americans use this accent".
There's plenty of difference within English accents as well. I'll generally classify any of them as English, I think.
That said, when I use the term British accent, I do usually mean English, I think. Sorry. Also sorry for all the times I used England when I meant UK, or UK when I meant Great Britain, or vice versa.
The reality is that no accent (not even english ones) sound like each other technically. Consider a south east accent with a scouse accent, for example. Both English, both nothing like each other.
I believe the correct expression would be "British accents".
I thought this was going to convert my spoken voice to a British accent. When I opened the link, I was quite disappointed to see that it's just text-to-speech.
In the late 1990s I had text-to-speech on my run-of-the-mill 100mhz Pentium running Windows 98, with 8MB RAM. I could select the voice too.
It was also good enough to read my high school reading assignment, which I recorded to cassette and then listened to on a long drive.
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So, what's novel about this site? As a learning project, it's pretty cool! (And I hope you built some good skills and enjoyed yourself making it.) Otherwise, there isn't much difference from what we had 30 years ago on much simpler hardware.
I did finally get it to generate something using the "Patient man" persona, and "Dos cerverzas por favor" does actually sound like a brit struggling with their Spanish pronunciation.
Are these for the purpose of selling to non-Brits right? "Being British is supposed to be classy and surely not associated with Trump as much as being an American"?
That might work, but not for selling to Brits because they expect some sort of a local accent. Universal/unlocalised voice does not sound natural or believable to them.
During an opening scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Dr. Jones is surrounded by hostile Russian soldiers, but he immediately observes that Dr. Irina Spalko [Cate Blanchett] "isn't from around here" and he goes on to describe her unique accent, correctly naming her origin as Eastern Ukrain[ian Soviet Socialist Republic].
"British accents are known for their pronunciation patterns, intonation, and rhythm, which differ from American, Australian, or other English accents. A British accent generator focuses on these speech characteristics to create audio that sounds natural and familiar to UK listeners."
What kind of Slop is this? British accent is different from other English accents?
Received from the person who taught it to you. Apparently it is meant to be taught/learnt. It was a way of leveling out all the regional accents for public school pupils. You too can have RP if you want it, it's not owned by the southerners!
Not sure where you got classism from, I've got a number of posh southern public schoolboy friends; after all, it's not really their fault that they mispronounce "butter" as "batter". What I object to is the term "received pronunciation" which implicitly places their "fwah fwah" as being in some way correct and standard.
Man I'm so disappointed: I thought I'd be able to use this tool to learn different British accents but apparently the tool "British" is already an accent...
"Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly
"Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday
"Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts
"Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American
"Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent.
Not to be all Henry Higgins, but these are all "placeless" accents and there are no regional accent options. I was looking forward to trying Computer Mancunian. But I can see why for marketing voiceover people want "global neutral British".
UX review: "failed to generate speech". Only the example phrases work.