Unreal Speech

Unreal Speech provides a Text-to-Speech API, delivering high-quality voice synthesis at a significantly lower price than competitors. Thanks to its substantially improved engine, Unreal Speech now supports 48 distinct voices across 8 languages: US and UK English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Japanese, Hindi, and Mandarin Chinese.
A key advantage of Unreal Speech is its cost-efficiency, with rates up to 11 times less expensive than Eleven Labs, and considerable savings compared to Play.ht, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. It features flexible pricing, including a free option and various paid plans that offer volume discounts based on character usage.
Unreal Speech ensures high performance and reliability, boasting 99.9% uptime and a low latency of 0.3 seconds. The service is capable of handling large-scale text-to-speech processing, converting more than 10,000 pages per hour without sacrificing quality.
A notable technical advancement is its ability to simultaneously stream both audio and per-word timestamps (multiplex), making it suitable for applications needing precise audio-text synchronization. This capability, along with its multilingual support, makes Unreal Speech ideal for diverse uses ranging from content creation to accessibility solutions.
The platform has attracted customers like Readwise.io, Matter (YC S20), and Listening.io. The CEO of Listening.io has reported a high-quality listening experience with a 75% reduction in text-to-speech costs compared to Amazon Polly.
Unreal Speech offers extensive API documentation and a live demo, enabling developers to evaluate its capabilities. Based in San Francisco, the company provides custom solution support through its website.