Acapela Group vs Orpheus TTS
Acapela Group
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| Figure | Acapela Group | Orpheus TTS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €8.25/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 9 | 0 |
| Spec score · Text-to-Speech Software | 9.3 (#2) | 7.4 (#171) |
| Spec score · Text-to-speech tools | 9.2 (#9) | 7.4 (#183) |
| API access | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Customer interaction products are available through cloud, sovereign cloud, on-premises, and embedded deployments. | The repository documents local inference and one-click deployment through Baseten, which it calls its preferred inference partner. |
| Headquarters | Mons, Belgium | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Platforms | web,windows,macos,linux,ios,android,api | api,self_hosted |
| Voice cloning | Yes | The project lists zero-shot voice cloning without prior fine-tuning as an ability. |
Plans
Acapela Group
- Yearly subscription€99 a year
- One-time license€999 a month
- Acapela Android voice€3.99, paid once
- Acapela TTS voices for Google Play€3.99, paid once
- My-Own-Voice yearly subscription€99 a year
- My-Own-Voice one-time licence€999, paid once
- Virtual Speaker€1,500, paid once
- Virtual Speaker first prepaid package€1,500, paid once
- Acapela TTS voices for NVDA€5,999, paid once
In their own words
Acapela Group
Acapela Group creates synthetic voices that turn written content into speech for services, apps, and devices. Its portfolio includes more than 250 voices in over 30 languages, with voice cloning, API access, and commercial use supported. Customer interaction products can be deployed through cloud, sovereign cloud, on-premises, or embedded setups. Acapela Cloud provides a web interface for creating and editing AI voice prompts and organizing files by project. Developers can use the Windows Server toolkit with proprietary APIs, SAPI5,.NET, C/C++, Java, MRCP v2, and W3C SSML. Rule-based pronunciation and lexicon tools allow specific terms to be tuned across languages. Acapela identifies voice agents and interactive voice response systems as use cases, and its NVDA voices serve blind and vision-impaired computer users. Platforms include Android, API, iOS, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows. The yearly subscription is €99 a year, billed excluding VAT; a three-month voice evaluation is included. Acapela is based in Mons, Belgium.
Orpheus TTS
Orpheus TTS has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.