Be hear now
WhaTTS it going to cost?
The two main providers charge $16 per 1 million characters.
A 600 page book contains roughly 1 million characters.
$16 costs £13.46 on 20/11/22
https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing
Google TTS
| Feature | Free per month | Price after free usage limit is reached |
|---|---|---|
| Standard (non-WaveNet, non-Neural2) voices | 0 to 4 million characters | $0.000004 USD per character ($4.00 USD per 1 million characters) |
| WaveNet voices | 0 to 1 million characters | $0.000016 USD per character ($16.00 USD per 1 million characters) |
| Neural2 voices (Preview) | 0 to 1 million characters | $0.000016 USD per character ($16.00 USD per 1 million characters) |
You are billed monthly for the number of characters of text that you processed. Amazon Polly’s Standard voices are priced at $4.00 per 1 million characters for speech or Speech Marks requests (when outside the free tier). Amazon Polly’s Neural voices are priced at $16.00 per 1 million characters for speech or Speech Marks requested (when outside the free tier).
For Amazon Polly’s Standard voices, the free tier includes 5 million characters per month for speech or Speech Marks requests, for the first 12 months, starting from your first request for speech. For Neural voices, the free tier includes 1 million characters per month for speech or Speech Marks requests, for the first 12 months, starting from your first request for speech.