Unreal Text-to-Speech API Reviews & Product Details

Unreal Speech is a cost-effective and high-performance text-to-speech (TTS) API designed to convert written text into natural-sounding speech. It offers a scalable solution for developers and businesses seeking to integrate voice capabilities into their applications without incurring high costs. Key Features: - Cost Efficiency: Unreal Speech is up to 11 times more affordable than competitors, providing significant savings for users. - Rapid Audio Streaming: Delivers audio streams with a latency of just 300 milliseconds, ensuring real-time responsiveness. - Extensive Voice and Language Support: Offers 48 distinct voices across 8 languages, including US English, UK English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, French, and Italian. - Long-Form Audio Generation: Capable of generating audio files up to 10 hours in length, suitable for extensive content needs. - Per-Word Timestamps: Provides precise per-word timestamps, facilitating accurate synchronization in multimedia projects. - Developer-Friendly API: Features multiple endpoints such as `/stream`, `/speech`, and `/synthesisTasks`, with SDKs available in Python for seamless integration. - High Reliability: Ensures 99.9% uptime, offering dependable service for critical applications. - Scalable Volume Handling: Efficiently processes high volumes, capable of handling over 10,000 pages per hour. Primary Value and Solutions: Unreal Speech addresses the need for an affordable, high-quality TTS solution that scales with user requirements. By significantly reducing costs compared to other TTS services, it enables businesses and developers to incorporate voice functionalities without financial strain. The API's low latency and extensive language support make it ideal for applications requiring real-time audio responses and multilingual capabilities. Additionally, its ability to generate long-form audio and provide precise timestamps enhances content creation workflows, particularly for multimedia projects. Overall, Unreal Speech empowers users to deliver engaging and accessible audio content efficiently and cost-effectively.

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Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/7/2024

"Easy to use, everything in one API for TTS generation"

5/5

What do you like best about Unreal Text-to-Speech API?

For my project, I needed to convert text to speech and generate timestamps for each word. I spent days upon days trying to configure and work around several APIs and overengineered documentation until I found Unreal Speech. Within the same day, I had the API fully configured and turned four required APIs into two. The documentation was incredibly easy to understand and had code examples for each call in all common languages. The feature of Unreal Speech's API that left my jaw dropped was their automatic timestamping. Within the same call, I could get the audio file and the timestamps for every word, saving me an abundance of processing time, and boosting my program's efficiency. I use this API daily for all my TTS calls now, and with such ease of use and cheap pricing, I don't see myself ever changing that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Unreal Text-to-Speech API?

The only real issue I've had with Unreal's API is the delays between punctuation. As far as I know from the docs, there's no way to do this, but if there was a way to be able to change that time, it would be perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Pierson M.

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Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2023

"A Great Text to Speech Experience with Affordable Prices"

5/5

What do you like best about Unreal Text-to-Speech API?

Unreal Speech is great. The service does exactly what it says it does, and is extremely affordable. They have a generous free tier and their reasonably priced paid plans blow the competition out of the water. Their team is quick to respond to inquiries and support, which is critical for business use cases. The TTS output is clear and sounds great, with documentation that makes it easy to integrate into my products. They can also handle extremely high volumes of traffic, guaranteeing 99.9% of TTS requests complete successfully. Great work! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Unreal Text-to-Speech API?

I would like to see Unreal Speech focus on certain less common words & phrases that sometimes get mispronounced (such as numbers & prices). I personally think improving the overall realism of the output (it's great but can be distinguished from more expensive services like Eleven Labs) is more important than multi-language support. Excited to see how the team moves forward! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Unreal Text-to-Speech API solving and how is that benefiting you?

My core business requires a realistic TTS platform that is affordable across thousands of users converting text to audio daily. Without Unreal Speech's beneficial pricing strategy and realism of voices, we would not be able to generate audio podcasts for our users every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UM

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/9/2024

"Better than all the other more expensive text-to-speech apis out there."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Unreal Text-to-Speech API?

It produce much more consistent speech than 11labs while being so much cheaper. I've tried AWS polly, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Speech Services, and Google Speech to Text, and it's cheaper and produces better speech than all of them. Very easy to use. Very easy to implement. Extremely fast to generate. I like the voices, too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Unreal Text-to-Speech API?

I'm running into bugs while generating speech more than 1,000 characters with Python API. and I wish there were more than 5 voices. Sometimes it pronounces things wrong, but that's an acceptable sacrifice given it's very low latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Unreal Text-to-Speech API solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're using Unreal Text-to-speech for AI calling B2B in the USA. It's so much cheaper than the competitors. It's also faster. 9/10 would use it again. I like all the voices, it's clear they put a lot a lot of effort into having 5 (as of 2/9/24) voices all highly tuned for quality rather than hundreds of voices (Looking at you, Google and Microsoft) that aren't as good. It's especially good vs 11labs, because 11labs is about $300 per 1 million characters while Unreal Speech is about $8 per million, and it never has a weird demon voice that 11labs sometimes has. For comparison, Microsoft, Azure, and AWS are all $16 per million characters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UW

Verified User in Writing and Editing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/3/2024

"Little known AI text to speech jumps ahead on price"

5/5

What do you like best about Unreal Text-to-Speech API?

I've been looking for a text to speech solution for producing audiobooks. I was experimenting with API access to Chat GPT's TTS service. Then also try to paid plan with 11 Labs. But after now trying Unreal Speech, I think this is the one. Chat GPT was too complicated, and 11 Labs too expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Unreal Text-to-Speech API?

The only downside so far is that their voices aren't quite as sweet on the ear. I'm sure they will come out with more and improved voices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.