I’m not dissing ElevenLabs, their conversion tool works great, but it’s expensive.

There’s a tool that hardly anyone knows about that works better and is cheaper.

It’s possible that this is the tool that ElevenLabs acts as a portal to.

I don’t know, but it’s possible.

This amazing tool is Polly.

It’s one of the huge range of amazing products you can get access to inside aws.amazon.com.

All of these tools are so inexpensive that it’s ridiculous.

I used this years ago, and, while it was brilliant then, it was hard to use.

Now, it’s been upgraded and revamped and the output is amazing without any of the extensive tweaks from previous versions.

To make it even easier I’ve downloaded a free program called Polyzon which is a front-end to Amazon Polly.

I don’t know of an equivalent app for Windows, but there probably is one if you hunt around.

Even if there isn’t, you can still use Amazon Polly by logging into aws and navigating there.

For my next trick, I’m going to try cloning my voice with Amazon.

It seems that it’s possible via Audible, but perhaps not to the wider public yet.

The question you might have is why?

My voice is cloned in InVideo, but this tool only makes quite short videos.

I can clone my voice in ElevenLabs, but they can get expensive for big projects.

Making audio books is time consuming and requires a nice quiet space.

I don’t have that.

By the time it’s quiet enough to read out loud, everyone else is in bed and I don’t want to disturb them.

So, the best option for me is to clone my voice and then I can make as many audio books as I like.

I can also make videos on any subject I like, all I’ll need is the script.

Regards,
Brent.