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Tutorials, product updates, and insights on AI voice technology.

Product 4 min read

New: AI Music Generator — Create Royalty-Free Tracks in Seconds

Stop hunting stock-music libraries for a track that almost fits. Describe the mood, tempo, and style you want, and PlayHT generates a royalty-free track in seconds.

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Hammad Syed

September 5, 2026

Tutorials 5 min read

Auto Dubbing 101: Translate Your Videos into 40+ Languages

A step-by-step guide to translating your videos into 40+ languages with PlayHT Auto Dubbing, from picking the right source clip to fine-tuning your final files.

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Sara Khalid

September 2, 2026

Use Cases 6 min read

Choosing the Right AI Voice for Your Audiobook

A practical guide for indie authors and publishers on matching AI voices to genre, auditioning efficiently, and keeping narration consistent across a full book.

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Sara Khalid

August 30, 2026

Use Cases 7 min read

The Ultimate Guide to AI Voiceovers for E-Learning

How L&D teams cut narration costs and turnaround time with AI voiceover — smarter voice selection, fast script updates, and built-in caption accessibility for compliance.

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Olivia Chen

August 27, 2026

Use Cases 5 min read

Automating IVR and Call Center Scripts with AI Voice

Traditional IVR recording means re-hiring talent for every script tweak. See how AI voice gives call centers instant, consistent, multi-language prompts.

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Olivia Chen

August 24, 2026

Engineering 6 min read

30+ Languages, One Voice: Multilingual Speech Synthesis Explained

How PlayHT separates voice identity from language and accent so a cloned voice can sound genuinely native across 30+ languages, not just translated word-for-word.

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Amir Hossain

August 21, 2026

Use Cases 5 min read

How Podcasters Are Using AI Voice Cloning to Save 10 Hours a Week

A solo podcaster cloned their voice on PlayHT and rebuilt intros, show notes, and social clips — cutting production time from 15 hours a week to under 5.

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Olivia Chen

August 15, 2026

Product 4 min read

Sound Effects Generator: Create Custom SFX From a Text Prompt

Describe the exact sound you're picturing and PlayHT generates it on the spot — no more digging through stock libraries for something that almost fits.

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Hammad Syed

August 12, 2026

Tutorials 6 min read

SSML Tags Explained: Fine-Tuning Your AI Voice

Learn how SSML tags like break, emphasis, prosody, and say-as give you precise control over pauses, stress, rate, and pronunciation in PlayHT's voice engine.

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Sara Khalid

August 9, 2026

Engineering 8 min read

Building a Real-Time Voice Pipeline: Streaming Audio Architecture

How PlayHT architects real-time streaming TTS for voice agents: first-byte latency, chunked audio delivery, graceful barge-in, and buffering that avoids choppy playback.

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Amir Hossain

August 6, 2026

Product 6 min read

Speech to Text Accuracy: How PlayHT Handles Accents and Background Noise

How PlayHT's Speech to Text handles regional accents and noisy audio, with honest accuracy expectations, diarization, and export formats for real-world use.

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Amir Hossain

August 3, 2026

Tutorials 5 min read

Text to Speech API: Quickstart Guide for Developers

A hands-on quickstart for the PlayHT text-to-speech API: auth, your first request, polling vs. streaming, and picking the right endpoint for your use case.

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Amir Hossain

July 31, 2026

Engineering 5 min read

How We Achieved Sub-200ms TTS Latency at Scale

How we rebuilt PlayHT's text-to-speech pipeline around streaming inference, custom attention kernels, and regional routing to cut real-world time-to-first-byte latency by 5x.

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Amir Hossain

July 28, 2026

Product 5 min read

Understanding Credits: How Pricing Works on PlayHT

A plain-English guide to PlayHT credits: what they represent, how free vs. paid tiers reset differently, and how rollover credits and prepaid packs work.

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Hammad Syed

July 25, 2026

Tutorials 5 min read

Voice Changer vs Voice Cloning: What's the Difference?

They sound similar but do opposite jobs: one reshapes a voice in real time, the other builds a reusable voice from scratch. Here's how to tell them apart.

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Olivia Chen

July 22, 2026

Tutorials 6 min read

How to Clone Your Voice in Under 5 Minutes

A step-by-step guide to recording, uploading, and testing your first voice clone on PlayHT — plus the recording tips and troubleshooting fixes that make the difference.

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Sara Khalid

July 19, 2026

Tutorials 5 min read

Voice Isolator: Cleaning Up Noisy Audio with AI

A hands-on guide to PlayHT's Voice Isolator: separate speech from background noise and music, know what to expect, and use clean audio for better transcripts and clones.

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Sara Khalid

July 16, 2026

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