# Alternatives to Unreal Speech

> Source: https://dubsheet.com/unreal-speech/alternatives/ (re-verified)
> Updated: 30 October 2026

## At a glance

| Name | Best for | Starts at | Better than Unreal Speech at | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Unreal Speech](https://dubsheet.com/unreal-speech.md) | Developers and creators turning written scripts into spoken audio | Free, then $49 a month | — | 29 October 2026 |
| [Narakeet](https://dubsheet.com/narakeet.md) | Course makers and video teams creating multilingual narration from scripts or slides | Free, then $6 per 30 minutes | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Unused credits | 29 October 2026 |
| [Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly.md) | Developers adding spoken output to apps, e-learning and phone systems | Free, then $4 per 1m characters | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Languages | 27 October 2026 |
| [HeyGen](https://dubsheet.com/heygen.md) | Creators and teams localizing video into many languages without reshooting | Free, then $29 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Unused credits | 26 October 2026 |
| [TTSMaker](https://dubsheet.com/ttsmaker.md) | YouTube and TikTok creators who need cheap voice-overs they can publish commercially | Free, then $13.99 a month | Languages | 26 October 2026 |
| [TopMediai](https://dubsheet.com/topmediai.md) | Creators making multilingual voice-overs, dubbing and music for social video | From $35.99 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Languages | 27 October 2026 |
| [Speechma](https://dubsheet.com/speechma.md) | Creators who need free multilingual voice-over within per-conversion limits | Free, then $9 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Languages | 30 October 2026 |
| [Typecast](https://dubsheet.com/typecast.md) | Creators and teams making narrated video, courses and podcasts in their own voice | Free, then $5 a month | Languages, Instant cloning | 26 October 2026 |
| [Fish Audio](https://dubsheet.com/fish-audio.md) | Creators narrating videos, audiobooks and character voices from their own cloned voice | Free, then $15 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Languages | 26 October 2026 |
| [Voicemaker](https://dubsheet.com/voicemaker.md) | Content creators and e-learning teams making multilingual voice-overs on a small budget | Free, then $5 a month | Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use), Languages | 26 October 2026 |

The ones people open most here come first, then the closest matches.

## Shortlist

### 1. Narakeet

Duration-priced browser voice-over and narrated-video maker with non-expiring capacity.

**Where it improves on Unreal Speech:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — $120 a month on 30 minutes for 10 hours of 60 minutes (600 minutes of finished audio). Billed by the second. an hour of finished speech is 60 minutes of audio; generation you do not download or keep is not counted where the vendor meters downloads](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Unused credits: yes — Purchased capacity remains available for future use rather than expiring at a monthly billing boundary.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Languages: yes — Narakeet publishes 112 languages and regional accents, with language groups and individual accent variants listed.](https://www.narakeet.com/languages/)

**Trade-offs against Unreal Speech:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none — Narakeet describes its public capacity purchase as a one-time payment, not a promotion or recurring subscription.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [API: partial — Commercial top-up accounts receive API access, whereas free accounts are explicitly ineligible for API keys.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/automating/)
- [What the free plan leaves on your audio: partial — Free-account output is restricted to personal and evaluation use; the vendor does not state a watermark or credit requirement.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/usage-rights-copyright/)

[View Narakeet](https://dubsheet.com/narakeet)

### 2. Amazon Polly

Pay-per-character cloud text to speech from AWS, with four voice engines and a browser console.

**Where it improves on Unreal Speech:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — $0 a month on AWS Free Tier - Standard voices 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](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/)
- [Languages: yes — Its voice table covers roughly thirty languages with named regional accents, including US, UK, Australian, Indian, Irish, New Zealand, Singapore and South African English, plus Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/features/)
- [Instant cloning: partial — A custom voice exists only as Brand Voice, a bespoke engagement where the vendor's team records a chosen actor and trains the model; there is no self-serve clone from a short sample you upload.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/features/)

**Trade-offs against Unreal Speech:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none — the published rate is the standing pay-as-you-go price per million characters, billed monthly for what you used, with no introductory discount and no annual commitment shown on the pricing page.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/)
- [What the free plan leaves on your audio: no — Free tier audio carries no stated watermark or credit requirement and the vendor advertises no restrictions on storing and reusing the output, so free characters may be published commercially.](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/faqs/)

[View Amazon Polly](https://dubsheet.com/amazon-polly)

### 3. HeyGen

AI avatar video, voice cloning and video translation into 175+ languages with lip sync.

**Where it improves on Unreal Speech:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — Ten hours a month is sold and lands exactly at the Creator ceiling of ten hours; Pro at $49 raises it to sixteen hours or more of text to speech.](https://www.heygen.com/pricing)
- [Unused credits: yes — Unused monthly credits carry into one further cycle, roughly 60 days in all, and annual subscribers accumulate theirs until renewal; everything unused is lost if you drop to Free.](https://help.heygen.com/en/articles/15126059-how-to-use-credits-on-heygen)
- [Languages: yes — Paid plans cover 175 languages and dialects while Free is held to 30-plus, and the help center lists the regional accents behind that, such as fourteen English variants.](https://www.heygen.com/pricing)

**Trade-offs against Unreal Speech:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none. The price shown first is the plain month-to-month rate: each plan card opens with its Monthly control selected at $29, $49 and $149, and only switching the card's own control to Yearly drops Creator to $24 a month billed as $288 for the year, advertised as two months free rather than as an introductory discount.](https://www.heygen.com/pricing)
- [Past your allowance: partial — Only the team plan can buy extra credits: Business tops up in blocks of 100 credits for $5, which is 5 cents a credit, with optional auto-reload, while Creator and Pro cannot buy packs at all and must move up a plan or a credit tier when the month's allowance is gone.](https://help.heygen.com/en/articles/15126059-how-to-use-credits-on-heygen)
- [Audio you get: partial — You can download just the audio or the captions SRT beside the video, and MP3 or MP4 from the podcast and cloning flows; audio-only export of a translation is Enterprise-only, and no bitrate is published for app exports.](https://help.heygen.com/en/articles/9834825-how-to-download-or-export-a-video)

[View HeyGen](https://dubsheet.com/heygen)

### 4. TTSMaker

Browser text-to-speech studio with 600+ voices, a free weekly quota and character-metered paid plans.

**Where it improves on Unreal Speech:**
- [Languages: yes — Over 100 languages are claimed, which the vendor explains as 80 base languages plus regional dialects; its own tutorial contrasts American and British English accents.](https://ttsmaker.com/blog/ttsmaker-supports-text-to-speech-in-80-languages/)

**Trade-offs against Unreal Speech:**
- [Unused credits: no — Unused characters are lost at the end of each cycle; the quota resets on the billing date and nothing carries forward to the next month.](https://pro.ttsmaker.com/pricing)
- [API: partial — A documented REST API exists but is gated: Free and Lite cannot create a key, Pro and Studio can, one key per account, and calls draw down the plan's character quota.](https://pro.ttsmaker.com/pricing)
- [API price: partial — No separate per-million-character API rate is published; API calls simply consume the subscription's monthly character quota, so the price is the plan price plus add-ons.](https://pro.ttsmaker.com/pricing)

[View TTSMaker](https://dubsheet.com/ttsmaker)

### 5. TopMediai

AI studio for text to speech, voice cloning and video dubbing on one shared credit balance.

**Where it improves on Unreal Speech:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — $9.62 a month on Lifetime Plan 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](https://www.topmediai.com/app/pricing/)
- [Languages: yes — Speech coverage is broad and the vendor names the accent variants it supports, including three English accents plus three Chinese variants.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/text-to-speech/)
- [Instant cloning: yes — Instant cloning works from a short upload or live recording, and paid plans state how many clones the credit allowance covers.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/ai-voice-cloning/)

**Trade-offs against Unreal Speech:**
- [Commercial use: partial — Commercial rights come with the paid plans only; the vendor's own license agreement grants non-commercial personal use unless a business license has been bought.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/text-to-speech/)
- [API: partial — A documented speech API exists but is a separate product line: the vendor states plainly that it is not included in the text-to-speech plans and must be bought on its own.](https://www.topmediai.com/api/text-to-speech-api/)
- [What the free plan leaves on your audio: partial — Commercial clearance is tied to the paid plans and watermark-free export is listed as a paid benefit, so free output is not cleared for monetized use.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/text-to-speech/)

[View TopMediai](https://dubsheet.com/topmediai)

### 6. Speechma

Free text to speech and creator audio tools with no account or credit card.

**Where it improves on Unreal Speech:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — $9 a month on Starter 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 Service ($0) includes 2000 credits; these hours need 520000, and past the allowance speech past it cannot be made.](https://speechma.com/faq)
- [Languages: yes — The library covers more than 75 languages and locales, including American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish, and Indian English.](https://speechma.com/text-to-speech)
- [Instant cloning: yes — Voice cloning accepts a short five-to-thirty-second recording and is available free without an account.](https://speechma.com/voice-cloning)

**Trade-offs against Unreal Speech:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none: the free price is permanent rather than an introductory rate, and the vendor states there is no trial and no card involved at all.](https://speechma.com/)
- [Past your allowance: partial — The paid API documentation sends a buyer over its monthly character quota to an upgrade, without publishing an extra-character price.](https://speechma.com/api/)
- [API: partial — Speechma offers a separately paid developer API for programmatic speech generation; free browser tools do not require an API plan.](https://speechma.com/faq)

[View Speechma](https://dubsheet.com/speechma)

### 7. Typecast

Expressive AI voice generator with emotion controls, voice cloning and a developer speech API.

**Where it improves on Unreal Speech:**
- [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.](https://typecast.ai/docs/models)
- [Instant cloning: partial — Instant Cloning needs five seconds of audio and appears from Basic upward with one slot, so the Free plan gets no cloning at all.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/)
- [Professional cloning: partial — 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.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/)

**Trade-offs against Unreal Speech:**
- [Past your allowance: partial — 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.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/api/)
- [Emotion, pace and emphasis: partial — Emotion, pitch, intonation and dynamics are Pro features and speed starts at Plus, so the two cheapest paid plans cannot shape delivery.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/)
- [Contract and cancelling: partial — 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.](https://typecast.ai/pricing/)

[View Typecast](https://dubsheet.com/typecast)

### 8. Fish Audio

Expressive text-to-speech, voice cloning and long-form studio with a credit-metered API.

**Where it improves on Unreal Speech:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — Ten hours is 600 minutes, over the Plus allowance, so it needs Pro at $100 a month month-to-month, which includes up to 1,620 minutes of generation.](https://fish.audio/plan/)
- [Languages: yes — The vendor names eight languages for text to speech with native accents, though a homepage solutions tile claims 30+ languages, so the count depends which page you read.](https://fish.audio/)
- [Instant cloning: yes — A clone can be made from a very short sample with no training step, and the Free tier already carries three public voice slots, though it lacks the enhanced cloning paid plans get.](https://docs.fish.audio/features/text-to-speech)

**Trade-offs against Unreal Speech:**
- [Unused credits: no — Monthly allowances reset with the billing cycle and anything left is lost, which the vendor states plainly and pairs with advice to spend the allowance inside the period.](https://fish.audio/plan/)
- [Commercial use: partial — Publishing commercially starts one plan above the free one: the Free Tier card lists commercial use among the features it does not include and the vendor restricts free output to personal projects, while Plus at $15 a month lists commercial use allowed, limited to voices you own and have verified.](https://fish.audio/plan/)
- [What the free plan leaves on your audio: partial — Free output may not be monetized or used commercially, which the plan card and FAQ both state; whether that audio is watermarked or credited is not addressed anywhere.](https://fish.audio/)

[View Fish Audio](https://dubsheet.com/fish-audio)

### 9. Voicemaker

Credit-metered AI text-to-speech studio with 2,000+ voices, voice cloning, speech-to-speech and SRT export.

**Where it improves on Unreal Speech:**
- [Cost for 10 hours a month (heavy use): yes — Ten hours a month needs the $24 Pro plan, which the vendor rates at about eighteen hours from its one million monthly credits.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)
- [Languages: yes — The vendor claims 140+ languages including regional English, Spanish and many Indian languages, with named accents such as UK, Australian and Indian English.](https://voicemaker.in/faq)
- [Professional cloning: partial — A higher-fidelity Professional Voice Cloning option exists only on the custom-priced Enterprise plan, not on any self-serve tier.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)

**Trade-offs against Unreal Speech:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none — Starter is shown as a monthly subscription, while annual billing is displayed separately.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)
- [Past your allowance: partial — Paid plans can add one million credits for a one-time $20 purchase valid for one year.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)
- [API: partial — A full REST API for text-to-speech, speech-to-speech and speech-to-text exists, but only on a separate pay-as-you-go developer platform rather than inside the subscription plans.](https://voicemaker.in/faq)

[View Voicemaker](https://dubsheet.com/voicemaker)