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I think the killer feature here is supposed to be voice cloning, which IIUC Google Cloud offers only as a custom enterprise thing that takes weeks (which sugges

• BeetleB 3y ago
  Cloning is nice, but what's the point if it doesn't sound natural? Will people really pay 100-1000x (if not more) just to get their preferred voice, but won't sound anything like that person when speaking?
  • vmatsiiako 3y ago
    It does sounds pretty good though. Plus, I think it’s more like 2-3x, not 1000x
    • BeetleB 3y ago
      > Plus, I think it’s more like 2-3x, not 1000x The most expensive Google Cloud option[1] gives 100,000 bytes free per month. This gives 10,000 chars per month. The next tier is $5/month. With Google that gives you over 130K bytes. And that's the most expensive model. With the moderately priced model $5 gives you 1.3M bytes. With the cheapest model you get 5.25M bytes. I use their service, so I know the economics. I pay nothing per month because I use the intermediate model, and I don't need more than 1M bytes per month. Switching to this, I will have to pay at least $5/month for a voice that's not really any better than Google's. [1] https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing