YouTube is the world's second search engine, but publishing there can be traumatic if you are shy like me. This is why I am excited about YouTube automation using "Artificial Intelligence" technology.

What is YouTube Automation?

YouTube Automation is about creating YouTube videos using AI and text-to-video software.

The software adds music, voiceover, characters, character emotions, text, and more, all within a few minutes.
The best part is that it is free to use, with the option for upgrades.

There are a few tools out there, the one I tried is called Steve.ai. Another is Beyond.com, which is a great tool but takes more time and costs $50/month.

Getting Started with Steve.AI

Steve.ai is free to test and does everything for you very quickly. The downside of the free account is it watermarks your video with the Steve.AI logo, along with other limitations such as the number of downloads and stock image credits.

1. Click over to Steve.AI and sign up.
2. Once you create an account on Steve.ai, you will see the dashboard with different options: script to live video, blog to live video, and voice to lab live video (coming soon).
3. For this tutorial, we will focus on script to live video.
4. Write or copy your script into the Steve.ai dashboard.
5. You can select the video and theme options on the right-hand side of the dashboard.
6. Click on "generate voices" to add voiceovers to the video. You can choose different voices, but note that they may sound robotic.
7. Play the video back to see how it looks.
8. Click on "publish" to update the video and then click on "download" to get the video with a watermark.

Improving Your Steve.AI video

The voiceover, as mentioned, is robotic right now. To improve things you can record your own, get a freelancer, or another tool.

Another AI voiceover tool is clipchamp.com which is AI video editing software.

1. Create a free account and go to the video editor.
2. Upload the video and adjust the volume of the original voiceover to zero.
3. Use the text-to-speech feature to add a new voiceover.
4. Choose a female voice, paste the script, and save the audio.
   A1. dd the new voiceover to the video and adjust the volume levels between the voiceover and the music.

You can add music from the YouTube audio library or create your own using AI.

Once you are satisfied with the video, export it and download the final version.

That's it! You have successfully created an animated video using AI and text-to-video software.

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