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Everyone wants to build an app

Many of our client conversations lately start the same way. “What if we automated that?” “Can we build an agent for this?” “We should just spin something up.” We get it. We’re excited too.

I Checked Google's Own Billing Console So You Don't Have To: The Real Text-to-Speech Free Tier, Voice by Voice

I went looking for one number -- how many characters of WaveNet audio I get for free every month on Google Cloud Text-to-Speech -- and found two sources that flatly contradicted each other.

  • Google's Text-to-Speech has multiple tiers for different voice models.
  • Free tier allows 4 million characters per month for Standard voices.
  • WaveNet, Chirp3-HD, and Studio each have 1 million-character allowance.

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