Google Cloud TTS
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WaveNet & Studio voices. 1M chars/month free.
Speechest. 1998 · Mountain View, CA
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/ 100 APIVault Score
// At a glance
Free Tier
1M chars/month free · card required
Category
Speech
Credit Card
Required
Last Verified
1m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
WaveNetNeural2StudioPolyglot
Monthly Requests
1M characters/month (standard voices)
Credit card required
No phone verification
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">from google.cloud 300">"text-purple-400">import texttospeech
client = texttospeech.TextToSpeechClient()
synthesis_input = texttospeech.SynthesisInput(text=300">"Hello world")
voice = texttospeech.VoiceSelectionParams(language_code=300">"en-US", ssml_gender=texttospeech.SsmlVoiceGender.NEUTRAL)
audio_config = texttospeech.AudioConfig(audio_encoding=texttospeech.AudioEncoding.MP3)
response = client.synthesize_speech(input=synthesis_input, voice=voice, audio_config=audio_config)
300">"text-purple-400">with open(300">"output.mp3", 300">"wb") 300">"text-purple-400">as out:
out.write(response.audio_content)// Overview
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech offers Neural2 and Studio voices with 1M characters/month free (standard voices) and 1M bytes for WaveNet. Extensive language support.
// Pros
- 1M free chars/month
- 60+ languages
- Neural2 voices are natural
// Cons
- Credit card required to sign up
- Studio voices cost extra
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 1m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)55/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)90/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)82/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
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