# Unreal Speech — Kokoro-powered text-to-speech API with a free browser studio.

> Source: Dubsheet — https://dubsheet.com/unreal-speech (structured, researched, re-verified)

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.

**Best for:** Developers and creators turning written scripts into spoken audio

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://unrealspeech.com/ |
| Category | Text to speech APIs, Cheapest for 2 hours a month, Free text to speech, Free text to speech you may publish |
| API | Yes |
| Open source | No |
| Price | Free |
| Price checked | 29 October 2026 |

Screenshot of Unreal Speech: https://dubsheet.com/img/1920/screenshots/unreal-speech.webp, captured 30 October 2026

**What we checked**

- Pages last read: 29 October 2026
- Price on its site: Free plan (From its pricing page)

## Unreal Speech price and terms

**Terms**

- Free plan: Yes — 250K characters, approximately 6 hours of audio, reset monthly — commercial publishing requires attribution.
- Sign up without sales: Yes

**What needs a higher plan**

- Basic: Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use)

## For AI agents

- API: Yes

Pricing page as we captured it: https://dubsheet.com/img/1920/screenshots/unreal-speech/pricing.webp, captured 30 October 2026

Read on https://unrealspeech.com/pricing, 29 October 2026.

## What we checked on Unreal Speech

### What an hour of speech costs

**Cost for 2 hours a month** · Yes — $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
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing cards, Free column, checked 29 October 2026

**Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use)** · Partly — $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
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing cards, Basic column, checked 29 October 2026

**Promotion and regular price** · Yes — Basic shows a regular monthly price plus a lower introductory price for six months.

> Basic $49 $4.99/mo Discount for first 6 months
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing cards, Basic column, checked 29 October 2026

**What the price counts** · Yes — Plans meter use in characters and show approximate audio hours alongside each monthly allowance.

> 3M characters 67 hours of audio
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing cards, Basic column, checked 29 October 2026

**Past your allowance** · Yes — 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:
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing FAQ, monthly characters question, checked 29 October 2026

**Unused credits** · Partly — 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.
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing FAQ, unused characters question, checked 29 October 2026

**Commercial use** · Yes — 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.
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing FAQ, commercial use question, checked 29 October 2026

### The voices

**Stock voices** · Yes — The service says it provides a library of 48 ready-made voices for generated speech.

> Yes, we provide 48 voices across 8 different languages
> — https://unrealspeech.com/ · FAQ, languages and voices answer, checked 29 October 2026

**Languages** · Partly — 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, French and Italian.
> — https://unrealspeech.com/ · FAQ, languages and voices answer, checked 29 October 2026

**Emotion, pace and emphasis** · Yes — The live demo exposes speed and pitch controls when generating speech from entered text.

> Speed Pitch
> — https://unrealspeech.com/ · Live Demo controls, checked 29 October 2026

**Audio you get** · Yes — 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.
> — https://unrealspeech.com/help · Help Center, Step 4 – Download, checked 29 October 2026

### Cloning a voice

**Instant cloning** · No — The vendor says custom voices are not currently available and only describes future work.

> Not right now, but we're working on it!
> — https://unrealspeech.com/ · FAQ, custom voices answer, checked 29 October 2026

**Professional cloning** · No — The vendor says custom voices are not currently available and only describes future work.

> Not right now, but we're working on it!
> — https://unrealspeech.com/ · FAQ, custom voices answer, checked 29 October 2026

### Working with it

**API** · Yes — 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")
> — https://unrealspeech.com/terms · Terms of Service, API Terms, checked 29 October 2026

**API price** · Yes — The FAQ publishes paid-plan additional-use rates from eight to sixteen dollars per million characters.

> Basic – $16 per 1M characters
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing FAQ, monthly characters question, checked 29 October 2026

**Platforms** · Yes — 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
> — https://unrealspeech.com/help · Help Center introduction, checked 29 October 2026

### Trying it, starting and getting help

**Free plan or trial** · Yes — 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
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing cards, Free column, checked 29 October 2026

**What the free plan leaves on your audio** · Yes — 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.
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing FAQ, commercial use question, checked 29 October 2026

**Still sold** · Yes — The vendor presents current selectable plans and a free API-key path, indicating the service is live.

> Get a Free API Key
> — https://unrealspeech.com/ · Homepage hero call to action, checked 29 October 2026

**Sign up without a sales call** · Yes — The site offers a free API-key path and selectable public plan cards rather than sales-only entry.

> Get a Free API Key
> — https://unrealspeech.com/ · Homepage hero call to action, checked 29 October 2026

**Contract and cancelling** · Yes — 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".
> — https://unrealspeech.com/pricing · Pricing FAQ, cancellation question, checked 29 October 2026

**Support** · Yes — 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.
> — https://unrealspeech.com/help · Help Center, Need more help, checked 29 October 2026

## Unreal Speech alternatives

- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [TopMediai](https://dubsheet.com/topmediai) · From $35.99 a month: AI studio for text to speech, voice cloning and video dubbing on one shared credit balance.
- [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.
- [Typecast](https://dubsheet.com/typecast) · Free plan, then $5 a month: Expressive AI voice generator with emotion controls, voice cloning and a developer speech API.
- [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.
- [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.

All 9 publish a price.

[All 9 alternatives](https://dubsheet.com/unreal-speech/alternatives/)

## Sources and changes

Last changed 29 October 2026

**Sources on unrealspeech.com** (4)

- https://unrealspeech.com/pricing, read 29 October 2026
- https://unrealspeech.com/, read 29 October 2026
- https://unrealspeech.com/help, read 29 October 2026
- https://unrealspeech.com/terms, read 29 October 2026

**Updates** (1)

- 29 October 2026: Dubbing features, Free tier, License terms, Plan limits, Plans

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