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AssemblyAI Ships AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents

AssemblyAI has released AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model for voice agents. It costs $15 per 1M characters, offers unlimited concurrency without a contract, and supports 6 languages at launch.

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AssemblyAI Ships AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents · Heidelberg AI News