What is Unreal Speech?
Cheap, fast text-to-speech API with word timestamps.
Who is Unreal Speech best for?
Unreal Speech is best for developers who want low-cost text-to-speech for live voice replies or long audiobooks.
Live voice in apps
The streaming endpoint starts playing up to 1,000 characters of speech in about 0.3 seconds, quick enough for voice replies in chat or assistant apps.
Audiobooks and long articles
One asynchronous request takes up to 500,000 characters and returns a 10-hour audio file in about 15 minutes.
Read-along and captions
Per-word timestamps come back as JSON, so a reader app can highlight each word as it is spoken.
Teams with large volumes
The price per extra million characters falls from $16 on Basic to $8 on Enterprise, and unused paid characters carry over to the next cycle.
How much does Unreal Speech cost?
Unreal Speech has a free plan with 250,000 characters a month, and its paid plans cost $49 a month for 3 million characters (Basic), $499 for 42 million (Plus) or $1499 for 150 million (Pro).
- 250K characters a month, about 6 hours of audio
- Characters reset on the 1st of each month
- Commercial use with a link to unrealspeech.com
- 3M characters, about 67 hours of audio
- Extra use at $16 per 1M characters
- No attribution; unused characters roll over
- 42M characters, about 933 hours of audio
- Extra use at $12 per 1M characters
- No attribution; unused characters roll over
- 150M characters, about 3K hours of audio
- Extra use at $10 per 1M characters
- No attribution; unused characters roll over
Enterprise costs $4999 a month for 625M characters (about 14K hours of audio), with extra use at $8 per 1M characters, and a Custom plan for 1B+ characters is priced on request with volume discounts. One minute of audio is roughly 750 characters, and use beyond a plan's allowance is billed daily at that plan's rate. Paid plans can be cancelled at any time. Full pricing on unrealspeech.com. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best Unreal Speech alternatives?
One tool on Recaply does Unreal Speech's job.
Questions about Unreal Speech
What is Unreal Speech?
Cheap, fast text-to-speech API with word timestamps.
Who is Unreal Speech for?
Unreal Speech is best for developers who want low-cost text-to-speech for live voice replies or long audiobooks.
Is Unreal Speech free?
Yes. Unreal Speech has a free plan: 250K characters a month, about 6 hours of audio.
How much does Unreal Speech cost?
Unreal Speech's paid plans are Basic at $49 per month, Plus at $499 per month and Pro at $1499 per month.
What are the best Unreal Speech alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Pocket TTS.
Where can I try Unreal Speech?
On its official website, unrealspeech.com.
Can I use Unreal Speech audio commercially?
Yes. Audio made with Unreal Speech can be used commercially on every plan, but on the free plan you must credit Unreal Speech with a link to unrealspeech.com in the description wherever you publish it. Paid plans need no credit.
Does Unreal Speech offer voice cloning?
No. Unreal Speech has no voice cloning or custom voices; you pick from 48 ready-made voices in 8 languages, including US and UK English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, French and Italian.
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