Say goodbye to human VO artists and hello Lovo
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The UX and UI is great and easy to navigate. I don't like spending time reading long software training documentation unless it's absolutely necessary. This was surely not the case with Lovo. I was able to easily get up in running creating voice over in seconds.
I own another unlimited text to speech lifetime deal with equal in quality, but I still full stacked because of the roadmap callout of the time stamp sync. The major bummer was that the API is not included in the AppSumo deal. I hope more people request it and the demand could sway the Lovo team to include for the top tier.
SETUP EXPERIENCE
As detailed above, the setup was a breeze. I was able to easily identify a "voice skin" upload my script tweak each sentence as needed and convert to speech. It's so easy.
CREATION OF FIRST VOICE OVER
The first voice over creation experience was great. Especially, I was able to easily switch voice skins using the same script and download as needed for easy dialogue creation.
Although, if you need to tweak the pronunciation for a specific word, there is no way to bulk update to select voice skins. You'd have to go through each skin and make the pronunciation update. If you create a voice over involving 5-6 different skins this would be a pain. Yes, you'd have to just configure it once and that is it but its still not convenient.
Also, it would be great to include the name of the voice skin in the main text to speech page so when we do need to update the pronunciation, we can easily locate the voice skin.
FINAL THOUGHTS
If you currently don't own a text to speech software that produces realistic human voices, then full stack Lovo without hesitation. Although, if you have a similar text to speech with similar quality with unlimited, then I'd only get one stack if even that just for the upcoming time stamp feature.
I hope Lovo considers to include API access to at least tier III unlimited sumolings as I wouldn't think it would incur incremental costs to provide API access to unlimited customers.