I can't imagine many use cases where $1.44/hr is a significant cost.
If you sell audiobooks, then a one off cost of a few dollars to convert the book to audio form is tiny compared to the authorship of the text.
If you are doing something like turn by turn navigation, clips are typically only a few seconds long, so very cheap, and again, many of your users will be needing the same clip, so no need to pay for it twice.
I've been using it for one of my projects but it just requires one-time use of the audio. As in, I use the text to speech to create audio files which I just recycle. Overall, it is more effective compared to using my own voice or hiring a voice over person to do it.
londons_explore|7 years ago
If you sell audiobooks, then a one off cost of a few dollars to convert the book to audio form is tiny compared to the authorship of the text.
If you are doing something like turn by turn navigation, clips are typically only a few seconds long, so very cheap, and again, many of your users will be needing the same clip, so no need to pay for it twice.
anonymous5133|7 years ago