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Unreal Speech

Summary

Unreal Speech is a Kokoro-powered service that makes AI speech from written text through a hosted API and browser studio. Its product combines a developer integration surface with a free online interface for generating audio.

From
Freethen $49 a month
Open source
No
API
Yes
Best for
Developers and creators turning written scripts into spoken audio

What we checked

Pages last read
Price on its site
Free planFrom its pricing page

Unreal Speech price and terms

Terms

Free plan
YesYes250K characters, approximately 6 hours of audio, reset monthly
The terms in full

commercial publishing requires attribution.

Sign up without sales
YesYes

What needs a higher plan

Basic
Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use)

For AI agents

API
Yes
Unreal Speech's pricing page

Pricing page, captured

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What we checked on Unreal Speech

YesPartlyNo

What an hour of speech costsYes

Cost for 2 hours a month

$0 a month on Free for 2 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words

Free $0 250000 characters 6 hours of audio

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What an hour of speech costsPartly

Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use)

$49 a month on Basic for 10 hours of 60 minutes. credits counted per character or per word are converted at the standard hour: 52,000 characters, 9,300 words Free might cost less, but no overage price is published, so it could not be priced past its allowance. Basic is $4.99 a month for 6 months for new customers. The figure is the regular $49, paid after it.

Basic $49 3000000 characters 67 hours of audio

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What an hour of speech costsYes

Promotion and regular price

Basic shows a regular monthly price plus a lower introductory price for six months.

Basic $49 $4.99/mo Discount for first 6 months

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What an hour of speech costsYes

What the price counts

Plans meter use in characters and show approximate audio hours alongside each monthly allowance.

3M characters 67 hours of audio

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What an hour of speech costsYes

Past your allowance

Paid plans charge additional character use daily, with rates declining on larger plans.

Additional usage over the monthly allowance will be charged daily at the rate of your current plan:

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What an hour of speech costsPartly

Unused credits

Free characters reset monthly, while unused paid-plan characters carry into the next billing cycle.

Free plan – Characters are reset on the 1st of every month. Paid plan – Unused characters roll over to the next billing cycle.

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What an hour of speech costsYes

Commercial use

Generated audio may be used commercially; free publishing needs attribution, while paid plans do not.

Yes, audio generated with Unreal Speech can be used commercially.

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The voicesYes

Stock voices

The service says it provides a library of 48 ready-made voices for generated speech.

Yes, we provide 48 voices across 8 different languages

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The voicesPartly

Languages

The vendor says eight languages but its current list names nine language or accent variants.

Yes, we provide 48 voices across 8 different languages, including US English, UK English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese,…

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The voicesYes

Emotion, pace and emphasis

The live demo exposes speed and pitch controls when generating speech from entered text.

Speed Pitch

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The voicesYes

Audio you get

Studio downloads generated speech as MP3, while API material also names PCM mu-law output.

Click the icon to download an MP3 audio file of your voiceover.

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Cloning a voiceNo

Instant cloning

The vendor says custom voices are not currently available and only describes future work.

Not right now, but we're working on it!

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Cloning a voiceNo

Professional cloning

The vendor says custom voices are not currently available and only describes future work.

On the page: FAQ, custom voices answer

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Working with itYes

API

Unreal Speech publicly licenses access to its API for text-to-speech functionality and publishes documentation.

Unreal Speech grants you a limited license to access and make use of our application programming interfaces ("API")

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Working with itYes

API price

The FAQ publishes paid-plan additional-use rates from eight to sixteen dollars per million characters.

Basic – $16 per 1M characters

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Working with itYes

Platforms

Studio runs as a browser-based web application, while the vendor separately documents a hosted API.

Unreal Speech Studio — a text-to-speech web application

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Free plan or trial

A standing free plan includes 250,000 characters and the site invites visitors to get a free API key.

Free $0 250K characters 6 hours of audio

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

What the free plan leaves on your audio

Free-plan audio may be used commercially but published work must credit Unreal Speech with a link.

Free plan – You must attribute Unreal Speech when publishing audio by including a link to "unrealspeech.com" in the description.

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Still sold

The vendor presents current selectable plans and a free API-key path, indicating the service is live.

Get a Free API Key

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Sign up without a sales call

The site offers a free API-key path and selectable public plan cards rather than sales-only entry.

On the page: Homepage hero call to action

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Contract and cancelling

Public paid pricing is monthly, and the FAQ says subscribers can cancel from the dashboard anytime.

You can cancel your subscription at any time. Go to your Dashboard and choose "Manage Subscription".

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Trying it, starting and getting helpYes

Support

The vendor directs customers to a site chat and a contact email, without publishing support hours.

Get in touch via the chat in the bottom right corner. Or you can email us at contact@unrealspeech.com.

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Unreal Speech alternatives

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Sources and changes

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