Introduction

KuKu FM is India’s largest audio streaming platform with over 2 million subscribers. They offer a wide variety of content, including audiobooks, podcasts, and educational materials, across Indian and other languages.

KuKu FM were looking for ways to reduce both the high cost of hiring voice actors and the speed with which new audiobooks were able to get to market. 

They needed a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine that was able to ingest text data and produce high-quality audiobooks at scale that require no manual post-production.

The Solution

We built algorithms for parsing transcripts and fed the parsed content into our state-of-the-art TTS modules that generated multi-voice audio content. The KuKu FM team were able to choose from a range of generated voices and accents for each show which could then be assigned to characters.

Episodes are ready for final checks within minutes of their submission onto the platform and can be uploaded for commercial use same-day.

The result?

We can process up to 750 hours of audio in <24 hours so that new content can be distributed quickly and efficiently to KuKu’s 2 million paid subscribers.