How to use Text to Speech in Powtoon Studio

Text-to-Speech (TTS) converts written text into a realistic voice-over inside Powtoon Studio. You can choose from a wide range of languages, accents, and voice styles, then apply the generated audio directly to your Powtoon or use it to drive character lip-sync.

In this article :

Getting your voiceover

Choosing from the voice library

Changing the title of the voiceover

List of Supported Languages

Watch how to do it: 

Getting your Voice-over

1. Click AI Tools, then select Generate a Voiceover.

   
   
    

2. Enter your text in the provided field, then click the arrow to continue.

   
   
   
    

3. The Text-to-Speech module will open.
   

   1. Add your text.
   2. Choose the desired voice. You'll see your recently used, and favorite voices here.
   3. Click Generate to hear it.
   4. If you are happy with the voice-over, click Save.

    

Choosing from the voice library

The Voices Library offers a wide range of high-quality, realistic voices available in many languages.

1. Click on Voices Library.
   
    
2. Choose the language of your voiceover.
   
    
3. Filter the voices using 4 criteria to pinpoint the right voice for your needs.
   • Age
   • Gender
   • Tone
   • Purpose
     
      
4. Once you've filtered the voices, you can sample each voice to see how it sounds.
   
    
5. Once you are ready to move forward with a specific voice, you can select it for your voiceover and also add it as a favorite. 
   
    
6. After clicking Apply, the generate voiceover tab will open, with the voice artist you've selected added as the selected voice. In the example below, we selected the voice Eleguar, and the voice was automatically added on the generate voiceover tab.
   

Changing the title of the voiceover

To change the title of your voiceover, click on the microphone symbol, and provide a title. To save the title, simply click your mouse anywhere in the Image voice window.

Pronunciation + Prompting Tips

If the AI has trouble pronouncing certain words, try to write the words more phonetically. You can employ various tricks such as capital letters, dashes, apostrophes, or even single questions marks around a single letter.

You can also use special characters such as question marks, or exclamation marks to change the tone of the pronunciation.

List of Supported Languages

Each of the languages below is supported by at least one AI voice.

Afrikaans

Amharic

Arabic

Azerbaijani

Bulgarian

Bengali

Bosnian

Catalan

Czech

Welsh

Danish

German

Greek

English (US)

English (African)

English (Australia)

English (Canada)

English (India)

English (Ireland)

English (New Zealand)

English (South Africa)

English (UK)

Spanish (Argentina)

Spanish (LATAM)

Spanish (Spain)

Spanish (LATAM)

Spanish (Argentina)

Estonian

Basque

Persian

Finnish

Filipino

French (Belgium)

French (Canada)

French (Switzerland)

French (France)

Irish

Galician

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Croatian

Hungarian

Armenian

Indonesian

Icelandic

Italian

Japanese

Javanese

Georgian

Kazakh

Khmer

Kannada

Korean

Lao

Lithuanian

Latvian

Macedonian

Malayalam

Mongolian

Marathi

Malay

Maltese

Burmese

Norwegian

Nepali

Dutch

Punjabi

Polish

Pashto

Portuguese (Brazil)

Portuguese (Portugal)

Romanian

Russian

Sinhala

Slovak

Slovenian

Somali

Albanian

Serbian

Swedish

Swahili

Tamil

Telugu

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu (India)

Urdu (Pakistan)

Uzbek

Vietnamese

Chinese (Wu)

Chinese (Cantonese)

Chinese (Mandarin)

Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin)

Zulu