Once you scale to ~60M characters per month, it's 50% cheaper. In other words, if you're at a stage where you spend $1,000/mo on text-to-speech, you'd spend $500/mo instead.
This service might be cheaper than Google at scale, but if I needed 60M chars a month I’d probably care about those features.
Definitely. Even on an M1 it made the page sluggish. I could feel its effect by moving the slider. When I deleted the div.glow-animation with the browser’s DevTools, it became way snappier.
In Sioux City the Taoiseach parked his coupe by the quay overlooking a fjord. Nearby, a bugle played an octave, children savored sherbet and quinoa with acai, and an artisan sold bagels next to ancient-inspired rouge.
Just for fun, I also tested some tongue twisters. For some reason, I find it psychologically very difficult to listen to perfectly spoken tongue twisters — almost as if some sort of nail on chalkboard effect is going on!
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick
She sells sea-shells by the sea-shore.
The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure.
For if she sells sea-shells by the sea-shore
Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.Or even if I could buy 1 month and then use those credits over multiple successive months I would really start considering it. It's nicer on my ears than even GCP's new neural voices, and I've listened to over 1k hours over the past year or two