This AI Software Can Write Your Script and Record Your Narration

[@loveyou3000productions]

Great new features. I have not used Audiate in the last few years of using Camtasia as I did my own narrations. But with these improvements I decided to go for it to see how it may help improve workflows, and add some different voices. Ok to start with it took a little time to get used to how best to place comma's etc so descriptions sound more natural, then a bit of time to find the right voice and adjust speed and pitch (English UK - Mia Speed 0.95 / Pitch 0.97). But after the initial effort, quite impressed. As others have said I can't wait to see how much more it improves, and potential for own voice generation.

[@beginsecure]

Move captions and reformat? Thank you!! The "Roger" voice was a bit robotic, but when I tried some of the others, they sounded human. I can't wait it to dub my voice!!

[@techsmith]

That's definitely on the roadmap! 🎉 And the caption work is ALMOST complete but still considered 'coming soon.' It works in some instances, but not every workflow just yet. It'll be complete shortly though, but we just had to share!

[@travelacademybrasil]

Amazing features, I cannot belive! I was thinking this morning how can I record my new videos in different languages plus capitions including my native language (Portugue Brazil). Thank you so much! 🙂

[@FranklyCollecting]

Looking forward to trying this! I used Rev for the first time along with Audiate dynamic captions and everything was so easy 👍

[@Think1stMedia]

Wow this program just gets better and better. Well worth the price, just like other Techsmith Programs.

[@techsmith]

👏Thanks for that, Drew! And the Audiate team isn't slowing down any time soon! They're already back to working on more innovative stuff! 🤩

[@HeatherMajors]

I do my own voice work but would like to see how this works in other languages. The one thing I am nervous about is not knowing how good the translation is. In the past I had some auto generated translations and my native speakers of the target language said it was obviously not done by a native speaker because some words were incorrectly used. Like one time the script referenced a chicken (recipe) and the translation came out robot chicken. Not speaking the target language I would never have known that myself. Where does the translation come from? Is it checked for accuracy before or during training the AI?

[@maxvanbalgooy]

Amazing. The voices are a bit robotic, but they’ll improve in time. But right now, this tech is good enough to create informative videos for non-English speakers in my community.

[@techsmith]

Absolutely! I found the same thing at first, (Andy here) but was surprised when I played with some of those settings (like Speed), how much it really did affect whether or not certain voices sounded more natural. Like you said, it'll improve in time, and the cool thing with Audiate is you'll get those updates in real-time as they happen!

[@dynamicgaming3575]

@@techsmithI have question how much is camtasia & another thing if I was to buy camtasia does it mean I have it for a life time with no monthly fees?

[@techsmith]

@@dynamicgaming3575 You can see that information here: www.techsmith.com/store/camtasia There are two options on that page: Subscription or Perpetual. Our subscriptions are not monthly, but yearly. Perpetual is the version where you own it for life with no additional fees (with Maintenance you'll also get the following years version, but that's it. - Whereas with subscription you always get the latest version).

[@DavidWillequer]

@@techsmith Would love to see a perpetual Audiate license. Maybe an option in the future if you bring the processing to the client side instead of cloud? Just a thought.

[@techsmith]

​@@DavidWillequer Unfortunately, that's not something in Audiate's future.

[@miless2111sutube]

where can we hear samples of the voices Audiate can use so that we can understand how good they sound? I currently use Speechelo and would be interested in moving over to your voices for when I don't want to use my own voice.

[@techsmith]

We have a free trial of Audiate that you can download and there's no credit cards required or anything, so you can hear them that way before committing. Audiate.com

[@carols9038]

This is awesome! Is there a chance that French Canadian could be added since many of us work with our friends up in Canada?

[@techsmith]

I'll let them team know about your request. We DO have French, but I know that's not what you asked.

[@techsmith]

I was told that French Canadian IS on our roadmap for the mid-term future! No date as of yet, but not FAR off...

[@Thenovas45196]

This is a nice addition but I'd love to see more done on ths audio correction. I use Adobe Podcast to make my echoy office sound like a recording studio. Is that a feature we can expect anytime soon? I've also noticed that the words dont always line up with the wave forms which makes the ums, pauses, and random words hard to remove without looking at the wave form of each one. Otherwise the words get cut off and dont sound right.

[@techsmith]

We've recently released a fix for the second problem regarding words & waveform not lining up. It took longer than normal as we went for a long-term fix rather than a simple patch, so that shouldn't happen anymore! (If you haven't opened Audiate since Oct. 30th, it may take a minute to open as it will need to download the big new update). As for the audio effects, have you played with Audiate's current FX in the bottom right corner of the software? Volume Leveler, Remove Reverb, DeEsser & more? app.screencast.com/TomO9UFRsmqV9

[@Thenovas45196]

@techsmith I've tried them and don't find the FX options to be very useful. At least not with my setup in my office.

[@EldercareSuccess]

Great that all this is in one place. The voices sound computer-generated and not as natural as I'd want for my work. Is there a way to train it to recreate my own voice by listening to a wav file of one of my own voice recordings? Interesting that it sounds more natural in a non-English voice.

[@techsmith]

Using your own voice is something that we're interested in looking into, but we're not quite there yet. That's actually not too surprising that other languages sound more natural, a lot of other languages have very predictable spelling to pronunciation rules, whereas English is all over the place, which makes it a more difficult language to synthesize.

[@EldercareSuccess]

Thank you. I hope you do work on this front. One of the things I'm also trying to do with Camtasia is an audio graham that uses the text that's automatically detected with the voice. Like a transcript. Hope I'm explaining that in a way that you can understand what I'm trying to do. Is there a way to do this without manually typing in the text and having it "pop up" as a visual graphic CC type of style? @@techsmith

[@techsmith]

@@EldercareSuccess I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're asking, but if you sync the project with Camtasia and choose to send Dynamic Captions you'll get text on the screen as the narration is saying it. See the section of the above video labeled "Dynamic Captions in Camtasia" at 4:43.

[@EldercareSuccess]

I'll check and try this. Do you need to have the audio transcribed first? Or does it automatically write out the spoken words? And... can you create the text so they appear with a background color other than gray? @@techsmith

[@techsmith]

​@@EldercareSuccess Audiate does the transcribing for you automatically when you bring any audio over from Camtasia. You can edit the text color by selecting that Track on the timeline in Camtasia and in the Properties panel changing the color to what you want! (In this iteration you can only make the text all the same one color, but with a black border burned on).

[@squareggs]

Great updates, looking forward to trying these out. I hope the captions have improved as I get so many that are incorrect. It must be my Yorkshire accent 🇬🇧 😂

[@techsmith]

Oh interesting! When you do captions are you leaving the default "English" or doing "English (UK)" to give it a fighting chance? 😆Not sure if that'll help or not, but hopefully! The nice thing about AI is it's constantly improving. Some of the things Audiate used to not get right (it's own name for example) I've found it struggles MUCH less with lately. Always learning.

[@technically_speaking_news]

Thank you, I'm waiting for the dynamic caption option so I don't have to use not Tech Smith apps to add nice captions to my videos.

[@techsmith]

We're pretty excited for that ourselves! ❤️

[@TeamWOWmedia]

This a powerful feature but I'm missing the visual aspect. How would I use this with Camtasia? Can you share more?

[@techsmith]

When you send your narration or audio over to Camtasia, you can then use our assets to add b-roll footage over it if you like. Or import your own media. kzbin.info/www/bejne/imGpn3eZiLiod6M

[@callmese7en319]

When clicking “done scripting” after editing the text to speech, it desyncs so severely that it makes the software useless for my sole function. Text to speech is all I use. Tl;Dr How do I fix it skipping words or just making up random words entirely? (Just upgraded to a far superior PC only for issues to persist.)

[@myerrandolph1033]

Wow...wow...wow! I trust I can write my own script? And are the number of voices limited and, if not, will more voices and "emotions" be added going forward?

[@techsmith]

Work on the voices and their options will be ongoing for some time! And yep, you can definitely write and paste in your own script!

[@CEO-MOM]

Very helpful

[@StockMarketCaddie]

Audiate is awesome............is there anyone it can capture my voice patterns to apply to an AI generated script yet???

[@FarishKashefinejad]

I would rather use my own voice. Are we getting close to the point where that could be a feature using Gen AI?

[@techsmith]

It’s definitely on Audiate’s roadmap, yep!

[@MathTopicsByDr.Marrero]

Great! Thanks 😊

[@miless2111sutube]

can you upload multiple language captions for the viewer to choose from and can you do the same for voices?

[@techsmith]

If you're asking about KZbin videos, yes, you can upload multiple SRT (subtitle) files that you've exported from Audiate for each language, and the viewer can choose from however many you give them. There's not currently (to my knowledge) any way to do that with different voice narrations as that'd technically be a different video from KZbin's perspective. (Andy)

[@miless2111sutube]

@@techsmith great, thanks. Is it possible to batch up the translated captions or do you need to go through the (admittedly easy looking) process for each language?

[@techsmith]

@@miless2111sutube Currently batch translating isn't an option, so like you said, it's an admittedly easy process, but it would currently be a little manual to change the translation and re-export. We'd recommend copying/pasting the original script (in whatever language you start from) each time and always translating from that starting point as the nuances of language can change with each translation and you want to keep that standard starting point in place.

[@caryganzconsulting]

What is the maximum length for a transcript? Can this be used to create audiobooks?

[@techsmith]

There is no maximum length for a transcript, though after a certain point there could be some performance issues depending on a users computer. We currently only test with files up to 2h long, but there are no technical limitations on duration. One thing to note though, there is a limit for recording duration. While you can import files of any length, you can only record for 30m at once. You could record as many times as you'd like in a single project, but only 30m at a time. If you'd like to create audiobooks, we would recommend reading less than 30m at a time, and then once you get to a point where it's starting to feel slow on your machine, create a new project. The 30m per-recording limit is something we have on our roadmap to eventually address.

[@gingerbread6967]

What's wrong with the user forum? Its been down for 3 months.

[@techsmith]

We are planning on providing an update on that forum soon, but in the meantime if you need technical support you can open a ticket (link 1) and if you want to suggest features you can do that here (link 2). 1) bit.ly/techsmith-help 2) support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=19459379549965

[@techsmith]

We actually really value feedback from users like you! The current state of the forums was not at all an attempt to silence user feedback.

[@dor1367]

Impressive except for at the end the captions should have read Camtasia but were Kim Asia ;) :)🤣🤣

[@techsmith]

🤣 See? The robots haven't put us all out of a job yet. Thanks for spotting that! We'll get it fixed.

[@peterpanino2436]

Do you have PREMIUM QUALITY VOICES, like on ElevenLabs?

[@techsmith]

We're not sure what you mean exactly by premium quality, but you can give Audiate's free trial a spin and see if the quality is what you'd hope! www.techsmith.com/download-audiate.html

[@MoinUddinSEO]

Does it accept Bangla script?

[@theembroideryzone]

woo-hoo awesome!!

[@gripps2211]

Why is the transcript limited to 7000?

[@techsmith]

That's only in the "Generate Script" workflow. If you are hoping to have AI generate a longer script we'd be interested in that use-case/feedback. But for now, you can always bring in a longer script, (copy/paste) and you can do that in the standard workflow.

[@gripps2211]

@@techsmith a ten-minute video on average speaks 1,500 words, (10,000-11,000 characters) KZbin videos on average are 11mins.

[@AlexBobby]

Why is your website offline?

[@techsmith]

Which one are you seeing as offline? None are reporting that they’re offline at this time…

[@AlexBobby]

@@techsmith I'm trying to reach your website both by searching on Google and by clicking the link in description. I can reac support pages from your website, but not the main one or those with download links

[@techsmith]

that's odd. do you mind opening a support ticket to look into this further? bit.ly/techsmith-help

[@chrisstaubyn]

It would be cool if it could take my audio recording and create a text/caption of what I've said.

[@techsmith]

It absolutely does do that. :) When you've imported your audio and it's transcribed it go to File -> Export -> Script. Then choose an .srt file and you can upoad it as ADA compliant captions to your video!

[@KEEVVY]

I'm still on 9.1, to bad the mac is only 3.0 i think and seen some bugs

[@techsmith]

Camtasia 9.1 was released in November of 2017, so unfortunately we no longer update or provide bug fixes to that old of a version. If you'd like to upgrade, to be able to edit way faster, check out the upgrade page here: www.techsmith.com/camtasia-upgrade.html

[@Schottinthedark]

Now tell me an easy way to add visuals to this script I exported to Camtasia. And then we are in business.

[@techsmith]

The *easiest* way would be to combine some royalty free assets like we do in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imGpn3eZiLiod6Msi=LrCDNiXmjCgMH7jR

[@StockMarketCaddie]

Can Audiate apply my own voice to an AI generated script?

[@techsmith]

Not YET, but that's coming soon!

[@SOKHAN]

Does it support Korean language.?

[@techsmith]

Currently no, you can see the list of supported languages here www.techsmith.com/audiate.html#:~:text=What%20languages%20are%20supported%20for,%2C%20Brazilian%20Portuguese%2C%20and%20Spanish.

[@rragatha]

When will Audiate be smart enough to hear a number spoken (twenty seven thousand dollars) and translate to a number ($27,000)??

[@techsmith]

It's on our roadmap for sure. Not sure when they'll be able to implement it, but it's definitely something we'd like to get worked on.

[@TennantMary]

Audiate is not working with Camtasia

[@techsmith]

Hmm, as long as Camtasia is up-to-date it should be working. Make sure Camtasia is up-to-date by going to File (on Mac) or Help (on Win) and selecting "Check for updates." If it's on the latest version and still having issues, please let our support team know so they can look into your specific issue directly by going here: bit.ly/techsmith-help

[@geraldbritton8118]

so, let me get this straight. you can pretend to be an author, actually do hardly any work, and still get paid? sounds pretty fishy to me. How about this: add a way to sample your voice and use that to generate the audio. Should sound just like you. might be tricker in other languages but not maybe not impossible.

[@techsmith]

...coming soon. :)