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Speech Studio is the dashboard surface for producing Bland Speech audio without writing code. You describe what you want the voice to say — and how it should sound — and the studio drives synthesis through the same POST /v2/tts endpoint you’d call from the API. Open it at app.bland.ai/dashboard/tts/studio.

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What’s in the studio

Script editor

A live transcript editor with per-turn voice assignment, inline performance tags, and multi-take generation.

Norm director

A chat panel that writes and edits your script for you. Describe the delivery in plain language and Norm updates the editor in real time.

Voice picker

Pin featured voices, search your cloned voices, filter by version, and preview any voice with a reactive orb.

Session history

Every session is saved with its script and past takes. Reload the page and you land back in the session you were in.

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Write a script

The editor is a single transcript field. Type what you want spoken, and press Generate (or Cmd/Ctrl + Enter) to synthesize. Pick a voice from the top Voice picker before generating. Every new turn defaults to a featured voice so you can generate immediately without configuring anything.

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Performance tags

Wrap performance cues in square brackets to shape how a line is delivered:
Type [ in the editor to open an autocomplete list of supported tags. Use arrow keys and Enter to insert one. Tags behave as a single atomic block — a single backspace deletes the whole tag, and arrow keys step over it. You can also open the Effects panel to browse tags and click any one to drop it in at the cursor.

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Multiple turns

Add turns for a back-and-forth read. Each turn gets its own voice picker, so you can alternate speakers within a single script. Unassigned turns fill in with a stable default voice so you can keep writing.

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Takes

Choose 1x, 2x, or 3x in the transport bar to generate that many takes from the same script in one run. Each take gets its own waveform; select a take to scope playback, timestamp, and download to just that one.

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Direct with Norm

Norm is the studio’s built-in director. Open the side panel and use the Chat tab to describe what you want, and Norm writes or edits the script in the editor while it streams. Norm is a single-speaker director — it works on the currently selected voice from the top voice picker. Use Norm to:
  • Draft a script from a brief (“30-second warm voicemail asking them to call back”)
  • Rewrite a line to hit a specific tone (“make the middle beat slower and a little tired”)
  • Add or remove performance tags across the script
  • Iterate turn-by-turn without leaving the editor
Norm streams updates live, so you’ll see the transcript rewrite as it works.
Norm and the editor stay in sync. Anything you type by hand carries through the next Norm turn, and anything Norm writes you can edit directly.

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Sessions and history

Every studio session is persisted locally with its script, voice assignments, and finished takes. Switch to the History tab in the side panel to jump between sessions or start a new one with the + button in the header.
  • Sessions are titled from the first line of the script until you rename one.
  • Reloading the page returns you to the session you were last in.
  • Past takes replay from cached audio; sessions whose audio was evicted show a Transcript-only tag and can be regenerated on demand.

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Pricing

Speech Studio bills against pay-as-you-go TTS credits. See the current per-character rate and refill options under Credits in the TTS sidebar, or in Billing & Plans.

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Do the same thing from the API

Everything in the studio is powered by the public TTS API. To reproduce a studio generation programmatically:
See Synthesize Speech for the full request shape, and List Voices to find a voice ID.