“We saw a bigger opportunity in helping individuals and organizations create realistic audio content for their applications,” Syed told TechCrunch. “Without the need to build their own model, they could deploy human-quality speech experiences faster than ever before.”
Syed and Felfel’s company, PlayAI (formerly PlayHT), pitches itself as the “voice interface of AI.” Customers can choose from a number of predefined voices, or clone a voice, and use PlayAI’s API to integrate text-to-speech into their apps.
Toggles allow users to adjust the intonation, cadence, and tenor of voices.