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Espressoเอสเพรสโซ

The lowest English read on the roster, for stories told in the dark.

Male · English · Audiobook narrator · 0:06espresso

0:06

Some stories are never told. They are kept, and passed from hand to hand, until someone finally dares to open the book.

The clip is a narrator's opening. Listen to the stop after passed from hand to hand, and the drop on open the book.

Espresso reads English from the bottom of the male range. The pace is slow, the consonants land, and a sentence is allowed to end before the next one begins.

The weight sets its range. It suits fiction, history, and anything with secrets in it, and it is too heavy for a product walkthrough, where a viewer wants a person on screen.

Cast it for#

Audiobooks
Fiction and narrative non-fiction in English, chapter after chapter.
Documentaries
History, true crime, and nature narration that needs authority.
Trailers
English teasers and title sequences read at the bottom of the range.

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In production#

Call it from the API#

The voice field takes the id above. Every other value in this request is a Paxa TTS Flash default.

curl -X POST https://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PAXA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "Some stories are never told. They are kept, and passed from hand to hand, until someone finally dares to open the book.",
    "voice": "espresso",
    "model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1"
  }' \
  --output espresso.mp3
Model
Paxa TTS Flash
Per request
5,000 characters
Rate
15 credits per 1,000 characters
Free credits
100 credits, about 11 minutes

API voice reference

Questions#

How is it different from Latte?
Latte is polished and sits higher, the read a brand film is scored around. Espresso is lower and slower, a storyteller.
Can it read Thai?
It reads Thai with a foreign accent, since the voice is designed around English. Thai narration wants Khanom Krok or Massaman.
Does it hold up over a whole book?
The register is built for length. The pace stays even across chapters, and the low level does not tire a listener the way a bright read does.

Hear it read your own words.

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