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The AWS example is $4 per million char. The starter of this service is $7.92. And the cheapest option is $2 per million which is 2x cheaper, not 8x. Yes the AWS
by jnsaff2 4y ago
The AWS example is $4 per million char. The starter of this service is $7.92. And the cheapest option is $2 per million which is 2x cheaper, not 8x. Yes the AWS (and google) neural voices are $16 but then the front page voice sampled is not from the neural AWS Polly but standard (Matthew IIRC).
Shady, really shady. It's a shame, I would not mind a good competitor to Polly/Google.
- jazz3020 4y agoThis is incorrect. The AWS example is Polly Neural Matthew voice which costs $16, not $4. Neural Matthew: https://unreal-tts-live-demo.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws/neural.mp3 https://unreal-tts-live-demo.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws/... Standard Matthew: https://unreal-tts-live-demo.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws/standard.mp3 https://unreal-tts-live-demo.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws/...
- jthrowsitaway 4y agoAs an AMZN stock holder, I love that this "competition" to AWS is hosted on AWS. Amazon still wins!
- jazz3020 4y agoWell, not exactly! We have clusters on GCP actually, sorry to break the news. But we did train models on AWS.
- jthrowsitaway 4y agoAh, ok. I saw the S3 URLs and assumed that's the platform you're using.
- jazz3020 4y agoThe stuff on GCP is a long story, which makes us an edge case. "Amazon still wins" is generally the case. Hold on to the stock.
- phgn 4y agoPlus this service starts at $249/month for the first non-"evaluation" plan compared to AWS & GCP which are fully Pay as you go. That's a complete deal breaker for anyone who wants to use it for a side project.
- jazz3020 4y agoYes, that's true. We're currently not targeting side projects at the moment as we do not have infrastructure to do so. I hope do be able to support smaller developers (like myself) soon. Step-by-step!
- rockemsockem 4y agoWho are you targeting at the moment then?
- jazz3020 4y agoI’d say businesses that already spend $$$ on a 3rd party TTS service and know how expensive it is or have content but haven’t pulled the trigger due to the prohibitive cost. I wrote this on the Product Hunt page: > “… read aloud apps (e.g. Pocket, Speechify, etc), UGC platforms (e.g. Medium, SubStack, etc), publications (e.g. Bloomberg, NY Times, etc), and e-learning platforms (e.g. Duolingo, Pearson, etc). We’re also interested in providing discounts to non-profits (e.g. Wikipedia, etc)”