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Speech models, tools and agents

238 in the catalogue today. Every one with what it costs, who sells it and where it stands. 238 in all, a hundred to a page; this is page 3 of 3.

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.