My use-case for purchasing is for short marketing videos and support explainer videos. For this, I require a text-to-speech engine that sounds natural and not obviously AI generated.

Lovo's voice engine does an excellent job here, to the point where I would struggle to identify between the AI and a real voice actor for a good number of voices, unfortunately, other voices are clearly AI and sound to artificial for real use. I'm based in New Zealand, so the Australian accent is closest for my use-case. I found the Australian accent voices are boarder line sounding to artificial sounding - or unnaturally fast (I can slow it down, but then the voice sounds artificial). Some American accents and British accents were brilliant however. I didn't try out languages other than English so can't comment on other languages.

Lovo are defiantly on the right path with there voice engine, and look forward to seeing new voices from them where the everyday person can't distinguish their AI engine from real voice talent.

To create a voice, you first select your voice, then add your text, which splits your text into blocks based on your sentences. This method is brilliant for managing and editing your script as you perfect your sentence structure for how the AI reads out your text. You can add emphasis on specific words as well as control the speed a sentence is read and how long the pause is between sentences. All good stuff, the workflow here is excellent.

However, the user interface needs work, it's a bit clunky and not as slick as it could be. I'm also disappointed that my browser of choice simply will not work (Opera, a chromium based browser - Most platforms will give a user-be-warned message and still allow one to use it - would be good if Lovo also took this approach), again similar problem on Safari on my iPad, only supported on desktop browsers.

Over all, I'm impressed, the positives greatly out-way the negatives on this product and best of all it's a product I know I'm going to use. Pleased to have it in my toolkit.