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by Crazyontap 1468 days ago
I was hoping to like this but the pricing is a total deal-breaker for me.

Personally, AWS' and Google's pay-as-you-go plan win every time regardless of the "better" and "cheaper" claims IMO. You must introduce pay-as-you-go plans if you really want some good traction. I really like the Entrepreneur voice (the professor sounds like Jordan Peterson)

On more thing, I think in the comparison you have sampled the AWS non-neural voice while using the price of neural voice for the price comparison - this does not sound like a fair comparison to me (but please correct me if I'm wrong and I'll edit my comment).
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jazz3020 1468 days ago
I agree and I'm saddened that it's a deal breaker for you. Unfortunately, we do not have infrastructure to offer pay-as-you-go (actually pretty challenging ops). We're forced to target a smaller niche today and expand in the future (i.e. offer pay-as-you-go).

But for those who are already spending, let's say, $250+ a month on TTS, this is a sweet deal. They are my initial target customers.

We're sampling the Neural AWS Polly Matthew voice. FYI: Neural Matthew ($16/1M chars): https://unreal-tts-live-demo.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws/... Standard Matthew ($4/1M chars): https://unreal-tts-live-demo.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws/...

Well, our $250/mo is at $2.6 per 1M chars which is even cheaper than Standard Matthew, and I think ours clearly sounds better?

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