Whether you are shy to speak up or haven’t mastered a particular accent just yet, but you need to communicate verbally with your audience, the Audio Announcement App has got you covered.

This TextToSpeech App allows you to write text content which is spoken as audio on the Player in a variety of voices and languages. At present, 100+ voices are available across 30+ languages.

1. To create a new App, go to your Content page.
2. Click the orange New button and select Apps.
   You find the Audio Announcement App in “Other” category or by typing “audio” into the search box.
   
3. After giving the App instance a name, type in the text you want to say. You can write in many different languages.
   
4. Choose the language and voice you like best.
   
   Make use of the blue preview button below to pre-listen and check out the voices at your disposal.
   
5. In Advanced Settings, you can set the playback speed to normal, slower, or faster. You can set the pitch level and you can check if you use SSML format.
   
   Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) allows for further customization of your audio output by providing details on pauses, audio formatting for acronyms, dates, times, abbreviations, or text to be censored.
6. Save the app and publish it.

Check out how to set up the Audio Loop in action