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Closed speech models, tools and agents

56 in the catalogue today. Every one with what it costs, who sells it and where it stands.

Models that read text aloud. They are usually priced per character, which makes the arithmetic simple: a thousand characters is roughly a paragraph. The real choices are the voice itself, whether you may clone one, how much control you have over emotion and pacing, and latency — a model that sounds wonderful in a rendered file may be too slow to hold a conversation.

Models whose weights are not published and which are bought through somebody's API. You get the maker's infrastructure, their scale and their uptime, and no way to run the thing yourself or to keep it if it is withdrawn. Most of the strongest models are here, so this is less a choice than a fact about the market; the choice is which seller you buy the same model from, and the catalogue holds their prices side by side.

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