What's the best text to speech API? I'm working on...
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Jasmine Wang
08/22/2023, 3:44 AMWhat's the best text to speech API? I'm working on audiobook generation, but Eleven Labs is way too expensive for my purposes - it ends up working out to $60+ per book.
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Eduardo Gonzalez
08/22/2023, 3:54 AMWhat would be a reasonable cost per book for this use case?
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Jasmine Wang
08/22/2023, 5:17 AM<$5 ideally
Jasmine Wang
08/22/2023, 5:17 AMSomething people would pay
Jasmine Wang
08/22/2023, 5:18 AMBut open to taking a loss right now
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Eduardo Gonzalez
08/22/2023, 5:19 AMHave you tried running models on your own?
Eduardo Gonzalez
08/22/2023, 5:36 AMCan get this kind of quality for free. (other than running your own servers)
Eduardo Gonzalez
08/22/2023, 5:46 AMHmm. I should make an example agent for this on xpress.ai 🤔
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Jasmine Wang
08/22/2023, 9:14 PMthis is quite good
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