Unreal Speech
Better and 8x cheaper text-to-speech than AWS
Unreal Speech launched on June 7, 2022 with 314 votes, #40 of 3,005 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
In plain words
Unreal Speech is a text-to-speech API that converts written content into spoken audio. It uses AI training to produce realistic, audiobook-style narration suitable for articles, blogs, newsletters, books, and PDFs. The service positions itself as a more affordable alternative to AWS's text-to-speech offering, delivering comparable audio quality at a lower cost through its API interface.
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From the sources
The first ultra-affordable, ultra-realistic AI narrator. Trained to sound audiobook-esque, perfect for narrating articles, blogs, newsletters, books, PDFs, and more! Compare against AWS side-by-side.
Cut text-to-speech costs. Production-ready. Stream in 300ms. Generate 10-hr audio. 48 voices & 8 languages. Per-word timestamps. 250K chars free.
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