AI Voice Link demo of News + Weather sequence
I mentioned in a reply to a post yesterday about how one of the big uses for Myriad AI Voice Links is around giving you a way of your station keeping "topical" even overnight when there the station is unattended, so here is an example of a log from 3am from one of our test stations for a fictional town in California and it's being voiced by an american style voice from ElevenLabs
The log has been built along the same lines as you might use for a normal "live" news sequence: - a News In ident, then the news read, then a news out, followed by a weather bed with a weather read over the top, then rolling into an AutoHook to tease the hour ahead.
The news read script here is one we created by having a human (in this case, me!) cherry picking some headlines from CNN and simply entering them into a "latest headlines" news file - so you can picture a journalist or presenter who's job is to periodically update that file with latest headlines.
The weather is being automatically generated in a USA "Weather channel" style by SmartInfo using data from OpenWeather.
The link even includes a time check at the top of the hour in a simple time format - which in the USA includes the am/pm designator too - to show off that Myriad can quite happily now be giving you simple time checks throughout the day whenever you need.
So to recap, none of the way this link sounds has been hand edited - so the timing positions for all the items are based on the intro/extro and automatic voice link placement rules that myriad has. The only work done by a human was the writing of the script for the news itself - so that quite rightly, a human is making sure it's the right stories, and toned the right way for your station.
This is a great example for overnights, but of course would also benefit smaller stations even during live shows, where a single presenter is responsible for presenting the whole show AND doing the news and weather reads - by using AI Voice Links for the news and weather, it means that you get a mix of voices on air, and can help give a bigger sound to the station.