Rime goes live with over 200 unique voices, the greatest number of English TTS voices ever
The release includes the TTS market's first Southern, African American, LGBT, and elderly voices
Today, the world of speech synthesis takes a step forward. Rime Labs has gone live with the most massive and demographically rich set of English voices ever available to the public. With 237 unique voices, this is an order of magnitude greater than any competitor and we are adding more and more. For the first time, users can choose from 30 different demographic categories ranging from young Latina women to middle-age midwestern men and from elderly LGBT voices to young African American voices.
Due to Rime’s unique data-gathering capabilities, these voices are more realistic and more naturalistic than any other voice offerings, allowing users to great conversation-ready voice assets at scale. These voices range from traditional broadcast-style voice to casual voices like those of regular people. The difference is that all of Rime’s voices don’t belong to real people. These voices are 100% fictitious and AI-generated, despite sounding as real as you or me, which opens up a whole new world of speech possibilities.
Unlike other text-to-speech offerings, Rime’s voices are as socially rich and unique as real humans are. We use our decades of sociolinguistic expertise to create an expanding palette of voice-types. In addition to being able to specify the age of the voice (young/GenZ, middle-age, elderly), we offer African American, Southern, Latina, Midwestern, and LGBT voices of all genders and are currently expanding even these options.
Not only does Rime offer far and away the widest range of US English voices in the world, we offer our enterprise clients sub-300ms latency, best in class and ideal for faster than real-time speech generation. For users who don’t require that sort of speed, we offer our Creator Plans starting at as low as $10 a month. At launch, Rime is offering both API access as well as an easy user-interface for diving right in. Check out our pricing page for more details.
Rime is ushering us into the next generation of AI-generated text-to-speech. Come check us out today!