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by techdragon 1373 days ago
Very impressive... except the voice cloning does nothing to correct the effect when a person says words they wouldn't normally say in a completely fluid way, it sounds perceptibly wrong. The Elon Musk example is pretty jarring in the second half. The JFK wasn't bad though.

Their pricing model is kind of abysmal. They use words per year. Who has a realistic understanding of how many words they might want read per year. It's also surprisingly low. 480 pages per year for $171 per year. Just a bit over. page and a third per day. Basically their entry level and medium tier are "teaser" plans, pushing to the $891 plan that has the sort of actually useful level of quota.

They likely have to charge like this due to the hardware involved in running the model, but its also really unfortunate since its a huge disincentive to try out the lower plans, I'm not about to pay to try and use a tool that even if its good enough I want to use it, will cost too much to use.