iSpeech

iSpeech is a speech platform that offers text to speech and speech recognition through cloud APIs and software development kits. A visitor can paste text into the home page demo, choose a voice and speed, and play the result, or sign up for an API key to build the same capability into a website, mobile app or phone system. The platform targets developers, publishers, e learning producers and teams building interactive voice response systems. The vendor states support for more than 30 languages and accents, including US, UK and Australian English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German and Arabic. Other offerings include open source mobile SDKs for text to speech and recognition, embedded and hosted voice services for any device, a voice cloning capability that creates a synthetic voice from existing audio, a Chrome app called Select and Speak for non commercial use, and a separate facial recognition API. Sign up is free. Paid developer pricing is credit based: one credit equals one word of text to speech or one recognition transaction. Packs are listed at 2,000 credits for $50, 10,000 credits for $200 and 100,000 credits for $1,000, with larger volumes by contacting the vendor. A pay per install option for mobile apps starts at $0.25 per install and requires a $2,500 prepayment with a 10,000 install minimum. Usage rules apply, including no static usage and one play per file. The vendor describes itself as a privately held company headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.