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Re:Show HN: Super fast/cheap text-to-speech API by doomrobo on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:05PM (#37684306)
How is this cheaper than Google TTS? Google's standard voices are $4 per million characters. And the deep learning ones are $16 per million characters, same as this offering. Plus Google gives you the first 1M free every month.

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing

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Re:Show HN: Super fast/cheap text-to-speech API by str3wer on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:54PM (#37684628)
just checked and the free 1M is also available on this website
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Re:Show HN: Super fast/cheap text-to-speech API by crackedbassoon on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:50AM (#37687777)
Only one time.
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Re:Show HN: Super fast/cheap text-to-speech API by jazz3020 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:38PM (#37692971)
OP here. The more you use, the cheaper it gets. But if you're not using much, there isn't any cost-saving benefits.

Once you scale to ~60M characters per month, it's 50% cheaper. In other words, if you're at a stage where you spend $1,000/mo on text-to-speech, you'd spend $500/mo instead.

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Re:Show HN: Super fast/cheap text-to-speech API by crackedbassoon on Thursday September 28, 2023 @09:47PM (#37698354)
Do you support SSML and other languages besides English? The demo site suggests not, and I couldn’t explore further without signing up.

This service might be cheaper than Google at scale, but if I needed 60M chars a month I’d probably care about those features.

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