Text-to-speech / voice API · Versely AI

    A Play.ht Alternative for Long-Form Narration and Multi-Speaker Audio

    One call for a whole cast. One clone for a consistent narrator.

    Play.ht's audience skews toward builders embedding voice into their own product and podcasters generating long-form audio — programmatic voice generation, not a one-off clip. Versely's voice tools cover the same long-form and multi-voice territory from inside the same studio used to generate the video the audio ends up attached to, with two specific jobs that go beyond a single narrator reading a single script.

    Both jobs, and the roster underneath them:

    A whole cast in one call

    generate_multi_speaker_speech takes a scripted conversation and gives each speaker alias its own distinct voice, spoken in the order their lines appear — one call instead of manually chaining several single-voice generations and stitching the timing together by hand. add-multi-speaker-dialogue-to-video attaches the result to a video the same way a single-voice track would attach.

    Clone the narrator once

    clone_voice_from_audio produces a voice_id from a recording, which then plugs into generate_speech for every future script — the way a long-running podcast or audiobook keeps one consistent narrator across dozens of episodes without re-recording that narrator from scratch each time.

    Design a voice instead of choosing one

    Beyond picking from the stock roster or cloning an existing recording, a voice can be specified by description rather than selected from a preset list — useful when the target sound doesn't match anything already in the library.

    The same roster underneath

    Both the multi-speaker and single-narrator paths draw from the same named-voice data as the rest of Versely's voice tools — 80 named English voices, 20 Spanish, 15 Korean, 6 French, across seven speech engines — rather than a separate, smaller pool reserved for API use.

    How it works

    1. 1. Script the conversation (or the long-form piece)

      Assign each speaker alias its own lines, or write the single narrator's full script.

    2. 2. Pick or clone the voices

      Stock voices from the roster, a cloned voice_id, or a voice specified by description.

    3. 3. Generate

      generate_multi_speaker_speech for a cast; generate_speech for one consistent narrator.

    4. 4. Attach and reuse

      attach_audio_to_video lays the result onto a video, and a cloned voice_id carries forward into every later script.

    Where this lives in Versely

    Who this fits

    • Podcast-style video clips with two or more distinct speakers
    • Long-running series that need one consistent narrator across many episodes
    • Interview-format content generated from a script rather than recorded live
    • Products embedding generated narration into their own content pipeline

    Frequently asked questions

    Can it generate a whole conversation, not just one voice?+

    Yes — generate_multi_speaker_speech assigns each speaker alias its own distinct voice in one call, spoken in script order, rather than requiring several single-voice calls stitched together manually.

    Can I keep the same narrator voice across a long series?+

    Yes — clone_voice_from_audio produces a reusable voice_id from a recording, which then plugs into every future script instead of picking a new voice each time.

    What if none of the stock voices match what I need?+

    A voice can be specified by description rather than chosen from a preset list, for cases where the target sound isn't already in the roster.

    Is the voice roster smaller for this kind of long-form or API-style use?+

    No — it draws from the same named roster as the rest of Versely's voice tools: 80 English voices, 20 Spanish, 15 Korean, 6 French, across seven speech engines.

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