Speechelo Review: Turn Text To Human-Sounding Speech

  Below, we’ll go through all features that the software offers.

1. Speechelo’s Dashboard

Speechelo is very easy to use with a simple and clean dashboard. You type your text into its text editor on the left panel, choose a voice and language on the right panel, then click the “Generate Voice Over” button to generate your voiceover. You can also click on the “Preview Voice Over” button to preview the speech before generating it.

The dashboard also shows you the number of available voices, voices generated, and unique voices used. However, these stats are not that helpful.

2. Campaigns

You can create an unlimited number of campaigns inside Speechelo. They are basically folders that store different generated voices to help manage them easier.

3. Voices & Languages

Now, let’s review the most important things of this software: voices & languages.

Speechelo currently offers 171 voices in 35+ different languages. They include Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

Regarding English alone, the platform gives you access to 36 voices from 7 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, India, and Welsh.

Another important thing to note is Speechelo’s voice engines. There are 2 voice engines that the software offers: Standard and AI.

The main difference between the two is that the Standard engine lets you manually customize your voiceover by adding breathing or indicating which words to emphasize. Whereas in the case of the AI engine, you don’t have access to these customization features. However, it pre-customizes many parts of the speech, so it sounds good out of the box without you having to do anything.

The AI engine is only available for specific voices and languages.

4. Text Editor

There is nothing special about Speechelo’s text editor. It offers basic functionalities like copy, paste, Ctrl + Z to undo, Ctrl + Shift + Z to redo, etc.

The front-end version of the software limits you to enter a maximum of 5000 characters into the editor. However, you don’t need to care about this limitation, as you will be likely to break your speech into small chunks anyway. If you do care, upgrading to the PRO version will allow you to remove this limit.

5. Breathing & Emphasis

You can manually add breathing and emphasis to your speech for the Standard Engine voices by clicking the corresponding buttons above the text editor.

For example, below is the result when emphasizing the word “simple.” We also add a little breathing at the beginning of the speech.

6. Pauses

Adding pauses is available in both the Standard and the AI engine.

Although the software only allows adding 0.2 to 4-second pauses to your speech through the visual bar, you can get around this by adjusting the “sec=” number inside the text editor.

7. Volume, Speed & Pitch

Another feature that Speechelo offers is Volume, Speed, and Pitch customization. This is available for both the Standard and the AI engine.

Currently, there are 5 degrees for each customization.

Regarding our review for this Speechelo feature, we have to say that we really love it. With different combinations, you can create interesting and unique results. However, it would be more amazing if the software allows for more detailed customization rather than just 5 levels of control.

8.Voice Tones

Speechelo offers 3 voice tones, including Normal, Friendly, and Serious tone. However, they are only available in a very limited number of voices and languages.

9. Other Features

If you upgrade to Speechelo’s World Wide version, you have access to 3 additional features. They are YouTube caption importer, text translation, and background music inserter.

The YouTube caption importer allows you to get full captions from any YouTube videos. The text translation will help translate any language into the language you want. And finally, the background music inserter allows you to insert a piece of copyright-free music tracks into your voiceover.

In our opinion, you shouldn’t upgrade to the World Wide version because you can get these features for free using other tools on the internet.

10. Speechelo’s Support

If you have any question, you can go to its support page and find an answer.

You can also submit a ticket to the Speechelo team. They’ll typically respond to your ticket within 24 hours.

11. Speechelo Pricing

The front-end version of Speechelo costs a one-time fee of $47, giving you access to 67 voices in 35 languages. Upgrading to Speechelo’s Pro plan helps you unlock up to 171 voices, access a better AI engine, and create longer audios. It costs an additional $47.

Compared to other tools of the same type such as Synthesys, we think Speechelo pricing is very reasonable and among the lowest.

Speechelo Review – Conclusion

In conclusion, Speechelo is definitely an affordable but advanced text-to-speech software that allows you to turn text into human-sounding voiceovers. Offering many types of customization and lightning-fast conversion, Speechelo is a must-have tool for people who want to do good voices for their videos without buying a high-end microphone or hiring an expensive professional voiceover artist.