Voices and languages

Languages

You set a product’s languages in .ondaclip/config.yaml:

locales: [en-US, fr-CA, es-MX]

Currently available: en-US, fr-CA, es-MX. Each tutorial is filmed in every language: the app opens in that language, the narrator speaks it and the subtitles show it. That’s why every title, say and description has one entry per language.

You can also configure the browser that films: its language, time zone and color scheme.

browser:
  locale: en-US
  timezoneId: America/Toronto
  colorScheme: light        # light, dark or no-preference

Set the time zone. Otherwise, times on your laptop and in a shoot (which runs in UTC) won’t match.

Voices

Voices are natural AI voices. On Ondaclip Cloud, Ondaclip runs them, so there’s nothing to configure. On your infrastructure, they run in your Google Cloud project:

voice:
  project: my-product-dev

If you don’t choose, each tutorial gets a voice based on its id, so it keeps the same voice from one shoot to the next. To choose one, set it in the tutorial:

voice: { name: Kore }

The Corvalo tutorials in see it in action use three voices: Kore, Puck and Charon. A single voice speaks every language of a tutorial.

By default, a product has two voices. Choose your own (1 to 4) in the settings file. Each tutorial without its own voice gets one of them:

voice:
  instructors: [Kore, Charon]

In the studio, Settings → Languages and voices → Choose the voices and Change the voice on a tutorial’s page let you listen to every voice, and they open the pull request for you. The next shoot uses the new voice, and only the narration and the edit are redone.

Listen to the voices

Each sample reads a sentence like the ones in a tutorial, in that language’s voice style.

Voice	Style
Achernar	Soft, female	English	French	Spanish
Achird	Friendly, male	English	French	Spanish
Algenib	Gravelly, male	English	French	Spanish
Algieba	Smooth, male	English	French	Spanish
Alnilam	Firm, male	English	French	Spanish
Aoede	Breezy, female	English	French	Spanish
Autonoe	Bright, female	English	French	Spanish
Callirrhoe	Easy-going, female	English	French	Spanish
Charon	Informative, male	English	French	Spanish
Despina	Smooth, female	English	French	Spanish
Enceladus	Breathy, male	English	French	Spanish
Erinome	Clear, female	English	French	Spanish
Fenrir	Excitable, male	English	French	Spanish
Gacrux	Mature, female	English	French	Spanish
Iapetus	Clear, male	English	French	Spanish
Kore	Firm, female	English	French	Spanish
Laomedeia	Upbeat, female	English	French	Spanish
Leda	Youthful, female	English	French	Spanish
Orus	Firm, male	English	French	Spanish
Puck	Upbeat, male	English	French	Spanish
Pulcherrima	Forward, female	English	French	Spanish
Rasalgethi	Informative, male	English	French	Spanish
Sadachbia	Lively, male	English	French	Spanish
Sadaltager	Knowledgeable, male	English	French	Spanish
Schedar	Even, male	English	French	Spanish
Sulafat	Warm, female	English	French	Spanish
Umbriel	Easy-going, male	English	French	Spanish
Vindemiatrix	Gentle, female	English	French	Spanish
Zephyr	Bright, female	English	French	Spanish
Zubenelgenubi	Casual, male	English	French	Spanish

Writing for the voice

• One idea per sentence. The sentence sets the length of the shot.
• Say what the viewer does, using the words on screen: “click Invite”, not “use the invitation feature”.
• Read it out loud in each language. A translation that runs too long makes for a slow video.