Compare Google Cloud Text-to-Speech

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Pricing
Model
Pay-as-you-go, per character, with a monthly free allowance
Subscription by characters, with free plan
Starting Price
$4 per 1 million characters (Standard, WaveNet)
$49/mo (Basic list price)
Has Free Version
Plan Summary
Standard and WaveNet $4 per 1M charactersNeural2 $16 per 1M charactersChirp 3: HD $30 per 1M characters
Free $0: 250K characters (pricing page) or 1M (home page)Basic $49/mo, 3M charactersPlus $499/mo, 42M charactersPro $1,499/mo, 150M charactersEnterprise $4,999/mo, 625M characters
Other Specifications
Product Type
Text-to-SpeechAPI
Text-to-SpeechAPI
Language Support
Languages Supported
Total not stated on the page we checked (Chirp 3: HD lists 53 language variants)
8 languages (vendor figure)
Voice Quality
Quality Rating
Not stated on the page we checked
Not stated on the page we checked
Tonal Description
Voice families: Chirp 3: HD, Studio, Neural2, WaveNet, Standard
Not stated on the page we checked
Voice Count
Total Voices
Not stated on the page we checked
48
Categories
Chirp 3: HD (30 voices), Studio, Neural2, WaveNet, Standard
Not stated on the page we checked
Ease of Use
Usability Rating
Developer-oriented (API)
Developer-oriented (API)
User Experience
Not stated on the page we checked
Not stated on the page we checked
Integrations
API Availability
Yes, Cloud Text-to-Speech API
Yes, four endpoints
Platform Integrations
N/A
N/A
Use Cases
Primary Use Cases
News and broadcast reading (Studio)Conversational agents (Chirp 3: HD)
N/A
Applications
Not stated on the page we checked
Not stated on the page we checked
Text to Speech Features
SSML Support
N/A
API Access
Multi Language
Emotional Impulse
N/A
N/A
Voice Cloning
N/A
No
Character/Word Limits
Plan Limits
Per-character billing
Characters per month by plan; roughly 750 characters per minute of audio per the vendor
Monthly Limit
Free: 4M (Standard, WaveNet), 1M (Neural2, Chirp 3: HD) characters a month, per a web search summary of the pricing page
Free: 250K (pricing page) or 1M (home page) characters
Commercial Rights
Included
N/A
Licensing Terms
Not stated on the page we checked
Home page: audio can be used commercially; attribution required on the free plan only. The terms page does not explicitly address generated audio.
File Formats
Supported Formats
MP3LINEAR16
N/A
Export Options
MP3 and LINEAR16 (WAV encoding); Chirp 3: HD streaming also ALAW, MULAW, OGG_OPUS, PCM
Not stated on the page we checked
Customer Support
Support Channels
N/A
N/A
Priority Support
N/A
N/A

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