AI Voice / Review
Unreal Speech
Unreal Speech is a low-cost, high-throughput text-to-speech API that positions itself as one of the cheapest TTS providers for developers.
$16
Cost / 1M chars
$49/mo
From
No
Free tier
Sold as monthly tiers (free 250k characters, then $49/month for 3M) with effective cost from about $16 down to ~$8 per million characters at volume. Its strength is very low price, low latency, and per-word timestamps for captions; it offers 48 voices across 8 languages but no voice cloning.
Developers who need cheap, scalable TTS for high-volume apps, narration, or captions.
Strengths
- +Among the cheapest per-character TTS
- +Low-latency real-time streaming
- +Per-word timestamps for subtitles
- +Generous 250k-character free tier
Trade-offs
- –No voice cloning
- –Only 8 languages / 48 voices
- –Limited emotion/style control
- –Free tier requires attribution
Unreal Speech at a glance
- Languages
- 8
- Voice cloning
- No
- API
- Yes
- Commercial use
- Yes (free needs attribution)
- Styles/emotions
- Limited (pitch/speed)
- Output
- MP3/PCM/WAV + timestamps