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ProductJuly 9, 20264 min
AI Voice Directing: Control Emotion, Pauses, and Pronunciation in Text to Speech
Most text to speech reads your words. AudioSonic Premium lets you direct them — emotion, non-verbal sounds, timed pauses, and exact pronunciation, all with simple inline markup. Hear it in action.
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