# Typecast — Expressive AI voice generator with emotion controls, voice cloning and a developer speech API. > Source: Dubsheet — https://dubsheet.com/typecast (structured, researched, re-verified) Typecast is a web and mobile studio that turns a script into AI voice-over using more than 700 licensed voices, with emotion, pitch and speed controls. It also sells voice cloning, a video editor, talking avatars and a separately billed speech API. **Best for:** Creators and teams making narrated video, courses and podcasts in their own voice | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://typecast.ai/ | | Category | Text to speech and AI voice-over, Courses and e-learning, Free text to speech, Free text to speech you may publish, YouTube and social video | | API | Yes | | Open source | No | | Price | Free | | Price checked | 28 October 2026 | Screenshot of Typecast: https://dubsheet.com/img/1920/screenshots/typecast.webp, captured 26 October 2026 **What we checked** - Pages last read: 28 October 2026 - Price on its site: Free plan (From its pricing page) ## Typecast in our research **Also named in** - [API text to speech with consent](https://dubsheet.com/collections/api-text-to-speech-with-consent) · Collection ## Typecast price and terms **Terms** - Free plan: Yes — Standing $0/month Free plan: 3,000 lifetime download credits (~5 mins), trial voices only, standard quality (16kHz), HD (720p) video exports, 1GB storage, 3 projects, 7-day download history, attribution required and no commercial license. - Sign up without sales: Yes **What needs a higher plan** - Business: Cost for 2 hours a month, Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Team seats - Pro: Emotion, pace and emphasis - Plus: Professional cloning ## For AI agents - API: Yes Pricing page as we captured it: https://dubsheet.com/img/1920/screenshots/typecast/pricing.webp, captured 26 October 2026 Read on https://typecast.ai/pricing/, 28 October 2026. ## What we checked on Typecast ### What an hour of speech costs **Cost for 2 hours a month** · Yes — Two hours of downloadable narration needs the Business plan at $69 a month, because the cheapest commercial plan with enough credits below it, Pro, covers only about 90 minutes. > 200,000 credits/mo (~250 mins) > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Pricing overview table, Download credits row, Business column, checked 28 October 2026 **Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use)** · Partly — Ten hours a month exceeds every published allowance; only Business may buy extra credits, and the vendor publishes no price for those web top-ups. > Additional credit purchases > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Pricing overview table, Additional credit purchases row, Business column, checked 26 October 2026 **Promotion and regular price** · Yes — none: the selector opens on Monthly and the plan cards show the regular monthly rate, with the yearly option advertised as a 10% saving. > Monthly Yearly (Save 10%) > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Billing selector above the plan cards, checked 26 October 2026 **What the price counts** · Yes — Everything is metered in download credits, spent only when you export audio: 3,000 lifetime on Free, then 30,000, 40,000, 75,000 and 200,000 a month. > Credits are used when you download audio. > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Intro paragraph above the web plan cards, checked 26 October 2026 **Past your allowance** · Partly — On the API plans extra use carries a published rate and is billed automatically in fixed blocks, but on the web Studio plans only Business may buy additional credits at all and the page prints no price for them. > Additional usage is automatically billed in increments of $9 (100k credits) for Lite and $100 (1.25M credits) for Plus. > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/api/ · Footnotes under the API plan cards, second bullet; and Pricing overview, Additional credit purchases row at https://typecast.ai/pricing/, checked 28 October 2026 **Commercial use** · Yes — A commercial license starts on the cheapest paid Studio plan, Basic at $5 a month, which also makes attribution optional; the $0 Free plan carries no commercial license and requires attribution on everything downloaded. > Commercial license | - | (Basic) check | Attribution | Required | Optional > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Pricing overview, AI Voice Editor table, Commercial license and Attribution rows across the Free and Basic columns, checked 28 October 2026 ### The voices **Stock voices** · Yes — The studio advertises more than 700 voices recorded by real voice actors, filterable by age and personality, while the API page counts 600 plus. > 700+ exclusive TTS AI voices from real voice actors. > — https://typecast.ai/text-to-speech/ · Section 'Realistic AI voices for every text-to-speech project', checked 26 October 2026 **Languages** · Yes — The current model speaks 35 plus languages and the docs enumerate 37, from English and Korean to Hindi, Thai and Cantonese; accents are not broken out. > Languages Supported: English, Korean, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Min Nan, Norwegian, Polish > — https://typecast.ai/docs/models · ssfm-v30 section, Languages Supported list, checked 26 October 2026 **Emotion, pace and emphasis** · Partly — Emotion, pitch, intonation and dynamics are Pro features and speed starts at Plus, so the two cheapest paid plans cannot shape delivery. > Emotion controls including Smart Emotion's one-click AI voice adjustment > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Pro plan card, 'Everything in Plus, and' list; Speed control row of the AI Voice Editor table, checked 26 October 2026 **Pronunciation fixes** · Yes — The vendor says you can change how words are spoken along with pitch and rhythm, and a separate text preprocessing library normalizes numbers, dates and phone numbers. > Dial in the details. Change how words are spoken and how they sound, right down to pitch, stress, and rhythm. > — https://typecast.ai/text-to-speech/ · Feature card 'Fine-tune pronunciation, pitch, and pacing', checked 26 October 2026 **Long scripts and chapters** · Partly — Long scripts are handled chapter by chapter through the command line tool, and single requests to the speech API cap at 2,000 characters. > Audiobook workflows benefit from repeatable naming, stable voice settings, and chapter-level files. The CLI gives an agent a simple command surface for generating drafts, rerendering chapters, and keeping approved audio separate. > — https://typecast.ai/docs/cli-reference/use-cases/audiobook-generation · Audiobook generation, opening paragraph, checked 26 October 2026 **Audiobook files** · Partly — The docs describe an audiobook workflow producing one MP3 per chapter through the command line, but name no retail store or store-ready delivery spec. > Generate audiobook draft files from the chapter text files. Use the same voice for every chapter. Write output to ./audiobook. Use one MP3 per chapter. > — https://typecast.ai/docs/cli-reference/use-cases/audiobook-generation · Agent prompt pattern block, checked 26 October 2026 **Several speakers** · Yes — The speech API composes up to 50 segments into one file and lets each segment use a different voice, which covers dialogue and two-host shows. > Generate multiple speech segments and pauses as one audio file. Add `tts` and `pause` objects to `segments` in the order they should appear. Each `tts` segment accepts the same voice, model, prompt, and output settings > — https://typecast.ai/docs/api-reference/text-to-speech/compose-text-to-speech · Compose Text To Speech, summary and Limits list, checked 26 October 2026 **Audio you get** · Yes — Downloads come as MP3 or WAV; paid plans export at 44.1kHz while the Free plan is limited to 16kHz standard quality. > When you're happy with the voiceover, download your finished audio in crisp MP3 or WAV and drop it into your project. > — https://typecast.ai/text-to-speech/ · How to use, step 5 'Download your audio', checked 26 October 2026 ### Cloning a voice **Instant cloning** · Partly — Instant Cloning needs five seconds of audio and appears from Basic upward with one slot, so the Free plan gets no cloning at all. > Instant Cloning (1 slot) > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Basic plan card, 'Everything in Free, and' list, checked 26 October 2026 **Professional cloning** · Partly — The higher-fidelity Professional Cloning is absent from Basic, which only gets Instant Cloning with one slot, and begins on the $19 Plus plan with a single slot shared in that plan's cloning allowance. > Professional Cloning (1 slot in total) > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Studio plan cards, Plus card feature list; and Pricing overview, Voice Cloning table, Professional Cloning row, checked 28 October 2026 **Consent of the voice’s owner** · Yes — Uploading a sample requires you to confirm the voice is yours or licensed, and the clone stays private rather than being published in the library. > You can only clone your own voice or a voice you have the legal right to use. > — https://typecast.ai/voice-cloning/ · FAQ, 'Can I clone any voice?', checked 26 October 2026 **Your voice trains their models** · Partly — You must consent to your upload being used to train your own custom voice, and no page offers a way to decline while still cloning. > you consent to the use of your uploaded file for AI training to generate your custom voice > — https://typecast.ai/voice-cloning/ · FAQ, 'Can I clone any voice?', checked 26 October 2026 ### Dubbing and translation **Captions and subtitles** · Partly — Subtitles come only from the developer tools, which write SRT, WebVTT or raw JSON timings beside the audio; the studio plans never mention captions. > The CLI can call Typecast Timestamp TTS and save alignment data alongside the generated audio. Use this when an agent needs subtitles for Shorts, caption timing for social video, karaoke-style highlights, or lip-sync metadata. > — https://typecast.ai/docs/cli-reference/timestamps-captions · Timestamps & captions, opening paragraph, checked 26 October 2026 ### Working with it **Voice to video** · Partly — A built-in video editor pairs the voice with visuals and music and exports up to 4K, but export quality and watermark removal depend on the plan. > Of course! Typecast is designed to make creating audio or video files a breeze. Just type your content and choose a voice that suits your presentation. > — https://typecast.ai/text-to-speech/ · FAQ answer to the question about making a presentation video, checked 26 October 2026 **Team seats** · Partly — Adding team members is listed only against the $69 a month Business plan and is dashed out on Free, Basic, Plus and Pro, and the page publishes no price or ceiling for an extra seat. > Add team members | - | - | - | - | check > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Pricing overview, AI Voice Editor table, Add team members row across all five columns, checked 28 October 2026 **API** · Yes — A documented speech API with official software kits for a dozen languages, a command line tool and a hosted assistant connector is sold on its own plans. > Yes, Typecast provides an API, enabling seamless integration of our services into your applications or platforms. > — https://typecast.ai/text-to-speech/ · FAQ, 'Does Typecast have an API?', checked 26 October 2026 **API price** · Yes — The API plans publish a per-credit rate with one credit equal to one character: $0.075 per 1k credits inside the $15 Lite plan, $0.07 per 1k inside the $280 Plus plan, so a million characters of speech is priced in public rather than quoted. > 200k credits per month ($0.075 / 1k credits) ... Usage is calculated as 1 credit per character. > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/api/ · API plan cards, Lite card credits bullet, with the footnote under the plan cards, checked 28 October 2026 **Platforms** · Yes — web, ios, android: the studio runs in a browser and the mobile app is on both stores, with projects syncing across devices and no desktop app offered. > Download the Typecast app and generate AI voiceovers directly from your phone. Available on iOS and Android. > — https://typecast.ai/ · Section 'Typecast Mobile App', checked 26 October 2026 **Works inside** · Partly — Automation platforms are covered through the API, with documented Zapier, Make, n8n and Google Sheets paths, but no Canva, Adobe or video editor plugin is documented. > With the Typecast integration, you can convert text to speech automatically - no coding required! > — https://typecast.ai/docs/integrations/zapier · Zapier page, intro callout, checked 26 October 2026 ### Labelling and rights **Who owns the audio** · Partly — You get a non-exclusive license rather than ownership, and when the subscription lapses you may keep using files already downloaded but cannot export or edit more. > After expiration, you may continue using previously downloaded audio, but no new modifications or downloads can be made unless your subscription is extended. > — https://typecast.ai/policy/ · Voice Usage Guidelines, item 1 'Download and Use', checked 26 October 2026 ### Trying it, starting and getting help **Free plan or trial** · Yes — A standing free plan lets you write your own script with unlimited generation and playback, but only 3,000 lifetime credits of downloads and trial voices. > 3,000 lifetime credits (~5 mins) > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Pricing overview table, Download credits row, Free column, checked 26 October 2026 **What the free plan leaves on your audio** · Yes — Free downloads must carry a spoken or written credit naming Typecast and the characters used, and the free API tier forbids commercial use outright. > Audio generated using the free plan cannot be used commercially and must include attribution. > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/api/ · Free API plan card footnote, checked 26 October 2026 **Still sold** · Yes — live: five self-serve web plans and three API tiers are on sale today, with a model released in 2026 and blog posts published this month. > Typecast offers tailored plans for both creators and enterprises. > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Page heading area, 'Typecast plans', checked 26 October 2026 **Sign up without a sales call** · Yes — Every published plan has a sign-up or subscribe button and the API tier needs no payment details to start; only Enterprise goes through sales. > From a dedicated enterprise API and security package to real-time conversational agents, a dedicated manager provides a tailored one-on-one solution. > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Enterprise Inquiries panel below the plan cards, checked 26 October 2026 **Contract and cancelling** · Partly — Plans bill monthly or yearly, yearly being 10% cheaper, but nothing states that you can cancel online and store subscriptions cannot be changed on the web. > Subscriptions purchased via the mobile app (iOS/Android) cannot be modified on the web. Please manage your plan through the respective app store. > — https://typecast.ai/pricing/ · Footnotes below the web plan cards, checked 26 October 2026 **Support** · Partly — Support is a contact form that a representative answers; no live chat, email address or business hours are published anywhere on the site. > Please submit your information and a Typecast representative will get in touch with you. > — https://typecast.ai/contact/ · Customer support page, intro line, checked 26 October 2026 ## Typecast alternatives - [HeyGen](https://dubsheet.com/heygen) · Free plan, then $29 a month: AI avatar video, voice cloning and video translation into 175+ languages with lip sync. - [Murf AI](https://dubsheet.com/murf) · From $29 a month: Voice-over Studio with timeline video syncing, downloadable audio, dubbing, and a public API. - [Narakeet](https://dubsheet.com/narakeet) · Free plan, then $6 per 30 minutes: Duration-priced browser voice-over and narrated-video maker with non-expiring capacity. - [Fish Audio](https://dubsheet.com/fish-audio) · Free plan, then $15 a month: Expressive text-to-speech, voice cloning and long-form studio with a credit-metered API. - [Speechma](https://dubsheet.com/speechma) · Free plan, then $9 a month: Free text to speech and creator audio tools with no account or credit card. - [Voicemaker](https://dubsheet.com/voicemaker) · Free plan, then $5 a month: Credit-metered AI text-to-speech studio with 2,000+ voices, voice cloning, speech-to-speech and SRT export. - [Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly) · Free plan, then $4 per 1m characters: Pay-per-character cloud text to speech from AWS, with four voice engines and a browser console. - [Akool](https://dubsheet.com/akool) · Free plan, then $12 a seat a month: AI video suite with video translation, lip sync, text to speech, voice cloning and a voice changer. - [TTSMaker](https://dubsheet.com/ttsmaker) · Free plan, then $13.99 a month: Browser text-to-speech studio with 600+ voices, a free weekly quota and character-metered paid plans. All 9 publish a price. [All 9 alternatives](https://dubsheet.com/typecast/alternatives/) ## Sources and changes Last changed 28 October 2026 **Sources on typecast.ai** (12) - https://typecast.ai/pricing/, read 28 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/text-to-speech/, read 26 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/pricing/api/, read 28 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/docs/cli-reference/use-cases/audiobook-generation, read 26 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/voice-cloning/, read 26 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/, read 26 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/contact/, read 26 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/docs/api-reference/text-to-speech/compose-text-to-speech, read 26 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/docs/cli-reference/timestamps-captions, read 26 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/docs/integrations/zapier, read 26 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/docs/models, read 26 October 2026 - https://typecast.ai/policy/, read 26 October 2026 **Updates** (2) - 28 October 2026: Dubbing features, Free tier, Plan limits - 26 October 2026: Dubbing features, Free tier, License terms, Plans ## Is this yours? 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