iCendant Speech, The Voice of Emotion, provides a simple API for the generation of emotionally nuanced speech that automatically adjusts pitch, cadence, and volume based on a persona you provide with a choice of over 500 voices. iCendant Speech uses the same engine as iCendant Empathy to enhance voices by Speechify but is not restricted to generating empathetic audio. At $0.008 per 1,000 characters, iCendant Speech is less than half the typical cost of Hume or Eleven Labs, 2x the speed of Hume and with comparable speed to ElevenLabs. The API supports streaming, awaiting, and polling. Webhook notification is under development. Preview the API Playground. Review the API documentation. Register (subject to approval) if you would like to participate in our early access program.

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Examples

These Medium articles compare iCendant Speech with other text-to-speech engines on raw input text: The Voices of AI: Poetry The Voices of AI: Meditation The Voices of AI: Coaching

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Pricing

iCendant Speech operates on a pre-paid credit system, where each credit is worth $0.001 USD. Every 1,000 characters consumes 8 credits. This means that 1,000 characters cost $0.008 USD. Conversational speech will consume 800 to 1,000 characters per minute, so the cost is approximately $0.01 per minute of audio. Monthly subscriptions are required at either 25or25 or 50 per month, which include 1,000 or 2,500 credits respectively and should be adequate for testing. These charges include email support. The subscription credits at about 2.5 hours and 6 hours should be sufficient for development and testing. Monthly credits expire. Additional credits in increments of 10,000 ($10 USD) can be purchased at any time and do not expire. There is a 10% bonus of non-expiring credits for every 6 months of subscription. If you have a $50 subscription for 6 months, you will get a bonus of 5,000 non-expiring credits with no cash refund value. If you have a $25 subscription for 6 months, you will get a bonus of 2,500 non-expiring credits with no cash refund value. The order of credit use is susbcription, purchased, bonus.

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More Examples

Below are more examples of the text-to-speech capability of iCendant Speech.
Project Manager’s ReportProject manager report
Friend’s Response To Job lossJob loss
Football Coach Response To Job LossCoach response
Losing PetLosing pet
Dawn PoemDawn poem
Hope And Wonder PoemHope and wonder poem
Loving kindness meditationLoving kindness
Family meditationFamily meditation