Acapela Group vs Sonex Labs
Acapela Group
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Sonex Labs
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| Figure | Acapela Group | Sonex Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €8.25/mo | $5/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 9 | 3 |
| Spec score · Text-to-Speech Software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.4 (#72) |
| Spec score · Text-to-speech tools | 9.2 (#9) | 8.8 (#25) |
| API access | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Customer interaction products are available through cloud, sovereign cloud, on-premises, and embedded deployments. | Enterprise deployments can use managed cloud, private VPC, on-premises or hybrid hosting, including air-gapped environments. |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Platforms | web,windows,macos,linux,ios,android,api | web,api |
| Support | Acapela says its team advises customers on voice selection and project requirements, and asks them to provide project, application, operating system, and language details. | Self-serve plans list email support; enterprise includes a dedicated account manager, priority SLA and Slack. |
| Voice cloning | Yes | The maker says a voice can be cloned from a ten-second sample and used across its supported languages. |
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.
Sonex Labs
Sonex Labs has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.