Unreal Speech is a production text-to-speech API that converts written content into natural-sounding audio, built on the Kokoro engine. It offers 48 voices across 8 languages — US and UK English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, French and Italian — and suits audiobook production, e-learning, video voiceovers and virtual assistants, handling large volumes of text rapidly while maintaining high audio quality.
The API synthesizes speech in around 300 milliseconds and supports real-time streaming, with endpoints for streaming (up to 1,000 characters), synchronous synthesis (up to 3,000 characters) and asynchronous batch jobs of up to 500,000 characters, plus per-word timestamps for syncing audio with visual media. Users can adjust pitch, speed and tone to match their content, and the low-latency architecture supports interactive, real-time applications as well as high-volume batch workflows.
Unreal Speech is priced for scale, with a free tier of 250,000 characters per month (around 6 hours of audio), a Basic plan at $4.99 per month for 3 million characters, and higher Plus, Pro and Enterprise tiers; unused characters roll over each month and the service claims to cost up to 90% less than competing providers. Commercial use on the free tier requires attribution, and the platform does not offer custom voice cloning. It is aimed at individual creators and enterprise-scale deployments that need high-volume, affordable audio production.
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