Creating AI Voices for Creating Teaching-Learning Material

Creating AI Voices for creating Teaching-Learning Material

Using AI voices can be highly beneficial for English teachers because they allow the creation of authentic, engaging, and diverse listening materials without the need for native speakers or studio recordings. With realistic pronunciation, varied accents, and natural intonation, AI-generated voices help students experience authentic language input and improve their listening comprehension. Moreover, teachers can easily adapt the scripts to different levels and topics, saving time while producing high-quality, personalized audio materials for classroom or self-study use.

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Here you are some Artificial Intelligence Voice generators where you can create your own audios almost for free and that you can try:

Speechise: Free online TTS tool; supports “more than 50 languages and over 380 AI voices”.  However, it adds a voicemark at the end of every audio produced.

Murf AI: Free plan gives access to 200+ realistic voices in 45+ languages. However, you must crate and account to login and download the audios created.

TTSMaker: Free online TTS, supports “over 200 standard AI voices and natural human-like voices” in 140+ languages.  Probably the easiest and quickest to use and download audios.

Vidnoz: Free TTS tool that says it offers “1200+ realistic AI voices” and free unlimited conversion (with sign-up) for long texts. 

AIVocal: Free text-to-voice tool with “900+ natural-sounding voices in 140+ languages”.

NatutralReaders: The one I have used the most for many years, offering a wide range of voices, accents and ages. Although, it is not for free to get the audios, you can get them by working together with Audacity.

Look at this tutorial about how to get the audios from Anatural Readers by using Audacity:

Now, take a look at these audios created with AI and edited with Audacity:

The History of Blogger (Only AI Voice) (3 points)

Coded Voices: A podcast series (AI Voice Generated and edited with Audacity) (4 points)

A short biography about Julian de Zubiria (Not AI Voice generated but edited with Audacity) (5 points)

That said, I hope you can create your own audios as part of your creating material stage so that you know how to use multiple listening activities for your students as well to engage students to create their own podcasts.