AssemblyAI Launches Cheap Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents
AssemblyAI has launched AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model built for voice agents. It costs $15 per million characters and offers unlimited concurrency without a contract. It works in six languages at launch, which may suit developers building voice tools.
Quick glossaryAssemblyAI, text-to-speech, voice agents, concurrency
- AssemblyAI
- AI company known for speech-to-text tools that turn spoken words into written text.
- text-to-speech
- Technology that turns written words into spoken audio so that a computer can read text out loud to people.
- voice agents
- Computer programs that hold spoken conversations with people, like phone bots that talk and listen for you.
- concurrency
- How many requests a service can handle at the same time, without slowing down or needing a special contract.
Burning Potato score: 70%