How to customize AI voiceover tone: MiniMax Voice "Tone Design" - one-sentence generation.

I recently discovered something that givesVideo dubbingThe heretical cultivation methods. Using AI This will generate a very realistic sound.

Here's what happened—a few days ago I finally had some time, so I took the opportunity to edit my first video and confidently sent it to a friend for feedback.

After reading it, he remained silent for a long time before replying with only two sentences: "Very awesome! It's just that the Mandarin... is a bit lacking."

Who understands?! As a Hubei native who has never been able to distinguish between N and L, or between retroflex and alveolar consonants since childhood, I have practiced repeatedly and even slowed down my speech, but it still sounds wrong.

I'm really out of ideas.

Just then, a heretical idea came to mind—since I couldn't get the pronunciation right from real people, I might as well just teach it to them. AI Bar.

LOL, using MiniMaxAfter the voiceover was completed, my friend didn't recognize it at all. AI The sound.

ordinary AI The voice acting sounds too much like a human! MiniMax's voice pronunciation has great intonation and emotion, making it sound like a real person speaking.

Today I'd like to share some voice-over tips that I've discovered myself. They can be useful for recording videos, blogs, and any audio-related content.

At the beginning of the month, MiniMax released their...up to datespeech generation modelSpeech 2.5The main upgrades are in two areas: stronger language expression and more comprehensive multilingual capabilities.

The usage is verySimpleWe open the MiniMax Voice homepage, directly input text, and a very realistic audio clip can be generated in a few seconds.

MiniMax has built-in voice control.More than 300 preset soundsIt covers almost all languages, accents, genders, and ages. From advertising narration to children's animation, you can find suitable voices for everything.

But what truly attracts me is itsTone DesignFunction.

With just one sentence, you can generate an emotive and distinctive message. AI The voice, the moment it opens, feels incredibly real.

Regarding tone designPrompt wordsThere is a universal formula:[Character Identity] + [Voice Quality] + [Speed/Rhythm] + [Emotional State] + [Scene/Purpose]

Prompt wordsLively children in animated films, with clear, childlike voices, quick and cheerful speech, full of curiosity and joy, used to portray cartoon adventure stories.

A suitable voice for a children's animated character has been generated.

Children's stories

Her voice was clear and youthful, and her speech was brisk. In just a few words, she naturally strung together the changes in emotions of surprise, happiness, and excitement, making the character sound vivid, interesting, and infectious.

The voiceovers for videos and movie reviews that we often see can actually be generated directly using MiniMax Voice.The generated sound is very emotional.FullIt won't have that lifeless, robotic feel.

Prompt wordsI need to design a female voice for narrating historical dramas featuring strong female leads. Please design it based on this...Prompt wordsGenerate a formula, generate a sentence for me.Prompt words: [Character Identity] + [Voice Quality] + [Speech Speed/Rhythm] + [Emotional State] + [Scene/Purpose].

For example, the enthusiastic vendors in the market, with their loud voices and local accents, are full of life.

Generated from MiniMax M1Prompt wordsChoose one that you think is suitable, and you can use it directly to generate the tone.

Prompt wordsThe monologue of a noble concubine in the palace is elegant and graceful. Her voice is gorgeous and magnetic, with a slight echo effect. Her speech is slow and elegant, with a soothing rhythm. Her emotions are noble and composed, with a touch of sadness and contemplation. It is used for the character's inner monologue or reminiscing about the past.

Each time, it generates three timbres for us to choose from. We can listen to each one individually, and if we are not satisfied with any of the three timbres, we can select...Regenerate until we are satisfied.This process does not consume any points!

I used this voice to create a narration video for a popular TV series. Let's listen to the sound quality together:

After confirming the selected tone, we name the tone and add a tag.

After that, every time you use the text-to-speech function, you can choose to use this voice to generate the dubbing.Tonal consistencyThe problem was solved so easily!

This means everyone can have a voice actor partner who is always online and can simulate various human voice timbres!

Whether it's creating self-media videos, or providing voiceovers for advertisements and broadcasting, these are all genuine ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

When dubbing, turn on the long text mode.A maximum of 200,000 audio characters can be generated in a single run.This is equivalent to converting a full-length novel like "The Three-Body Problem: Earth's Past" into an audiobook in one go.

I really enjoy listening to suspense stories while I'm working; it's even more addictive than watching short videos.

Suspense story

MiniMax voice assistant has a tuning console. With the same tone, we can create different sound effects through the tuning console to make the audio more suitable for the usage scenario.

Speech rate, tone, and volume are the most basic adjustments, and I've figured out a few tricks for it.

For example, young people's voices can be spoken a little faster, which sounds more realistic and is more suitable for the fast-paced content of short videos.

The elderly can speak more slowly and tell their stories in a gentle, conversational manner, which makes the story more engaging.

Even more impressive is thatMiniMax voice assistant can give your voice emotion.Even with the same timbre, it can express happiness or sadness;

Prompt words:

Happy: Wow, this is amazing! I've been waiting for this moment for so long!

Sadness: Ugh, how could this happen? I really can't take it anymore...

Angry: How many times do I have to say it? Stop doing this!

Fear: The door just moved by itself, and I felt a chill down my spine...

Disgust: Ugh, this smell is so strong, it makes me want to vomit.

Surprised: Huh? Are you kidding me? This is actually true?

We can also make more subtle adjustments to the sound, such as making it deeper or softer; we can also combine it with various scene effects, such as electronic music and empty echoes.

MiniMax voice assistant can not only speak Mandarin, but also switch to Cantonese, and even more than forty other languages.

A single timbre can create completely different "performance effects".

By the way, MiniMax's points are quite durable.Register now and get 10,000 free points!I only spent a few hundred points running all these cases.

However, please note that...Commercial licenses require a membership to unlock.If you plan to release your work to the public or generate commercial content, this step is necessary.

The membership price isn't high either; it's about the price of one takeout meal to unlock all the features, which is quite a good deal.

MiniMax Voice makes voice controllable and designable, lowering the creative threshold and reshaping the professional boundaries of voice actors.

In the future, sound will also become an important part of the creator economy.

Just as poster design requires designers and video shooting requires directors, voice-over is no longer an accessory, but an independent and core dimension of expression in a work.

MiniMax Voice is doing more than just reading from a script.AIIt's not a machine, but a sound mixing console.Creators can freely manipulate the timbre and adjust the mood, just like color grading or editing, treating sound as creative material.

The controllability of sound means that podcasts, novels, virtual humans, and even music creation will have a completely new way of being done in the future.

Sound is transforming from a tool into content itself.