Hi everyone, Kevin here. Today I
want to show you how you can make text-to-speech videos entirely for free,
and you can use these on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and any other video service. Basically, if you want your video to sound like
me, the human manifestation of text-to-speech, I'll show you how to do this. For text-to-speech,
we are going to use a free video editing service called ClipChamp and this also happens to
be owned by Microsoft, my previous employer. Head to the website up above or you'll also
find the link down below in the description. Once you land on the home page, in the top
right-hand corner, click on try for free. You'll need to create an account.
You could use a Microsoft account, a Google account, or you can
simply use your email address. This drops us on the ClipChamp start
page, and in case you're wondering, ClipChamp is a very easy to use video
editing program, and if you want to learn all about how you can use ClipChamp to
edit videos, check out the video up above. We're simply going to look at how you
can use text-to-speech using ClipChamp. In the top right-hand corner,
let's click on create a video. This drops us in the main editing interface. Over
on the left-hand side, let's click on the button that says record and create. As a quick aside, you
can create all types of things within ClipChamp. You can record your screen and camera at the same
time, or just your camera, or just your screen. At the very bottom, we have
the text-to-speech option. Let's click on that. This opens up the main text-to-speech
interface. In the top left-hand corner, you can choose your language and
you have 70 different options here. Now it sounds like a lot, but I looked through
this entire list and unfortunately there was no Klingon. Over on the right-hand side,
you can choose from 170 different voices. They have male voices, female, neutral. You can
choose different ages and even different accents. You can even mix and match the different
languages with the different voices. So as an example, I can choose French as
my language, and then I could still enter in English text, so it'll sound like a
French person is trying to say my text. Down below, you can also
set the speed for your text. Here you can enter your text in and then down
below you can click on the preview button. The Kevin Cookie Company makes
the best cookies in the world. Now that I've inserted some text, you can
also customize the way the computer says it. So, let's say I want to add
some additional emphasis to best. I can insert a period after best
and that'll result in a long pause. The Kevin Cookie Company makes
the best cookies in the world. I can also insert a comma if I want to introduce
a pause, but I want it to be a little bit shorter. The Kevin Cookie Company makes
the best cookies in the world. Another way to introduce
a pause, you can insert an ellipsis and that too will also cause it to pause. The Kevin Cookie Company makes
the best cookies in the world. Lastly, you can also insert a question mark and that'll cause the pitch to rise
on the last syllable of the sentence. The Kevin Cookie Company makes
the best cookies in the world? Once you're all done customizing
your text-to-speech, let's click on the button that says save to media, and
here now you'll see it in your media bin. Once again, to preview the text-to-speech, you
can simply hover over, and it'll play a preview. There are two different ways that
you can add this to your timeline. If you hover over, you can
click on this plus icon, or alternatively, you could simply
drag and drop it onto your timeline. Now that you have your audio on the timeline, you
can use ClipChamp as a full video editing program. You could add other videos, other
pictures, you could add in music, and you could do whatever you want here. Or
alternatively, you could just take this audio file on its own and you can bring it into other editing
software. You can really do whatever you prefer. In the top right-hand corner, let's click on
the button that says export, then select 1080P, and here now it'll render your video as an
MP4. This will include both video and audio. Once that's all done, it'll download the file to
your computer. As an MP4, the file will contain both video and audio, but you could
also very easily strip out the video. You can go to a website like CloudConvert. You'll find a link up above and
also down below in the description. On this website, simply drag and drop the MP4 onto
the page. In this drop down, you can then choose what format you want to convert this to. Here
I'll click on audio and then I'll select wav. Next you can click on convert,
and once it finishes converting, you can then click on download, and now you'll
just have the audio output from ClipChamp. All right, well that's how you can
make your own text-to-speech video. Now I know one question that
will probably come up a lot is who owns the rights to the outputted
text-to-speech, and can you use it commercially? I looked through the terms of service
and they don't mention that at all. Because this is a feature within video editing
software and you can use your outputted video for commercial projects, it seems like it's
strongly implied that you have full rights and license to use the outputted text-to-speech
wherever you please. To watch more videos like this one, please consider subscribing and
as always, I'll see you in the next video.
