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Text to Speech

Set Up via Microsoft Azure​

1. Sign up for Azure services​

  • Register for a Microsoft Azure account or sign into your existing one.
  • Log into your account and create a new Speech Service if you do not already have one. It may take a minute for your account to fully populate with the default resource group to use.
  • Click Keys and Endpoint in the left hand Resource Management menu to view the Location/Region for this resource.
  • Click the copy icon next to KEY 1 to copy the API Key credential for this resource.

2. Configure Microsoft Azure API and Key under Tools > ClassifAI > Language Processing > Text to Speech > Settings​

  • Select Microsoft Azure AI Speech in the provider dropdown.
  • In the Endpoint URL field, enter the following URL, replacing LOCATION with the Location/Region you found above: https://LOCATION.tts.speech.microsoft.com/.
  • In the API Key field, enter your KEY 1 copied from above.
  • Click Save Settings.
  • If connected successfully, a new dropdown with the label "Voices" will be displayed.
  • Select a voice as per your choice.
  • Select a post type that should use this service.

3. Using the Text to Speech service​

  • Assuming the post type selected is "post", create a new post and publish it.
  • After a few seconds, a "Preview" button will appear under the ClassifAI settings panel.
  • Click the button to preview the generated speech audio for the post.
  • View the post on the front-end and see a read-to-me feature has been added

Set Up via OpenAI​

1. Sign up for OpenAI​

  • Sign up for an OpenAI account or sign into your existing one.
  • If creating a new account, complete the verification process (requires confirming your email and phone number).
  • Log into your account and go to the API key page.
  • Click Create new secret key and copy the key that is shown.

2. Configure OpenAI API Keys under Tools > ClassifAI > Language Processing > Text to Speech > Settings​

  • Select OpenAI Text to Speech in the provider dropdown.
  • Enter your API Key copied from the above step into the API Key field.

3. Using the Text to Speech service​

  • Assuming the post type selected is "post", create a new post and publish it.
  • After a few seconds, a "Preview" button will appear under the ClassifAI settings panel.
  • Click the button to preview the generated speech audio for the post.
  • View the post on the front-end and see a read-to-me feature has been added

Set Up via Amazon Polly​

1. Sign up for AWS (Amazon Web Services)​

  • Register for a AWS account or sign into your existing one.
  • Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/
  • Create IAM User (If you don't have any IAM user)
    • In the navigation pane, choose Users and then click Create user
    • On the Specify user details page, under User details, in User name, enter the name for the new user.
    • Click Next
    • On the Set permissions page, under Permissions options, select Attach policies directly
    • Under Permissions policies, search for the policy polly and select AmazonPollyFullAccess Policy
    • Click Next
    • On the Review and create page, Review all of the choices you made up to this point. When you are ready to proceed, Click Create user.
  • In the navigation pane, choose Users
  • Choose the name of the user for which you want to create access keys, and then choose the Security credentials tab.
  • In the Access keys section, click Create access key.
  • On the Access key best practices & alternatives page, select Application running outside AWS
  • Click Next
  • On the Retrieve access key page, choose Show to reveal the value of your user's secret access key.
  • Copy and save the credentials in a secure location on your computer or click "Download .csv file" to save the access key ID and secret access key to a .csv file.

2. Configure AWS credentials under Tools > ClassifAI > Language Processing > Text to Speech > Settings​

  • Select Amazon Polly in the provider dropdown.
  • In the AWS access key field, enter the Access key copied from above.
  • In the AWS secret access key field, enter your Secret access key copied from above.
  • In the AWS Region field, enter your AWS region value eg: us-east-1
  • Click Save Settings.
  • If connected successfully, a new dropdown with the label "Voices" will be displayed.
  • Select a voice and voice engine as per your choice.
  • Select a post type that should use this service.

3. Using the Text to Speech service​

  • Assuming the post type selected is "post", create a new post and publish it.
  • After a few seconds, a "Preview" button will appear under the ClassifAI settings panel.
  • Click the button to preview the generated speech audio for the post.
  • View the post on the front-end and see a read-to-me feature has been added

Set Up via ElevenLabs Text to Speech​

1. Sign up for ElevenLabs​

  • Sign up for an ElevenLabs account or sign into your existing one.
  • Log into your account and go to the API key page.
  • Click Create Key create a new API key and ensure you turn on access to the Text to Speech endpoint and turn on Read access to the Models and Voices endpoint.

2. Configure ElevenLabs API Keys under Tools > ClassifAI > Language Processing > Text to Speech > Settings​

  • Select ElevenLabs in the Provider dropdown.
  • Enter your API Key copied from the above step into the API Key field.
  • Select the model and voice you want to use for the text to speech after saving and verifying the connection.

3. Using the Text to Speech service​

  • Assuming the post type selected is "post", create a new post and publish it.
  • After a few seconds, a "Preview" button will appear under the ClassifAI settings panel.
  • Click the button to preview the generated speech audio for the post.
  • View the post on the front-end and see a read-to-me feature has been added

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