LOVO’s History: The Path to Fruition.
We’ve come a long way since our birth.
It all started with a simple idea — what if we can change our voices? What kind of possibilities will it unlock, what power will it unleash to not only companies but to individual content creators? Better yet, those who never dared to create content because they didn’t have access to quality voices.
We ran more than twenty iterations of alpha versions of various products, to test user reception and gather feedback. Some of these were simple mobile apps, some were just website landing pages.
LOVO Studio: The Real First.
We finallystruck something legitimate for the first time with LOVO Studio.
It’s a web application with an intuitive UI and core features.
You can choose from the list of voice skins, enter, paste, or upload text, and convert them to audio. You can add emphasis, pauses, and background music, temper with speed, edit pronunciations, and share or download the finished audio file.
LOVO API: Going Enterprise
After working with B2C users, we moved on to provide our offerings to business customers. They could utilize our API to leverage all the core features that were available on LOVO Studio, and automate the whole process of turning text to audio by integrating with other tools in their environment. This enabled many app builders to create new VR/AR & chatbot apps, as well as for many enterprises to have TTS as an easy-but-integral part of their business unit.
DIY Custom Voice Cloning: Step 2
Soon people were unhappy with just using stock voices. They wanted to use their own voices to make their own content. So we created a way for people to record on our platform by reading a script we provide, and have their voices cloned. It’s opened new opportunities and possibilities both for individuals and businesses, and for us as well.
LOVO VoiceLab: Next Level
Studio & API were good, but they were quite minimal in their offerings: it’s both good and bad. Users constantly posed suggestions and complaints, which we were very thankful for. We’ve compiled hundreds of those feedback, and created the next-generation of synthetic media content platform where the user can mix video, image, text, voice, and audio to create content from scratch. This is the true democratization of content for all, and it heralds a new era for many industries involved.
It’s also very interesting for our team to wonder what could be the next thing for LOVO. Only time will tell.
