Altered Studio vs OpenAI Text-to-Speech
Altered Studio
altered.ai
OpenAI Text-to-Speech
developers.openai.comSide by side
| Figure | Altered Studio | OpenAI Text-to-Speech |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $30/mo | $0.60/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 6 | 3 |
| Spec score · Text-to-Speech Software | 9.5 (#1) | 7.9 (#123) |
| Spec score · Text-to-speech tools | 9.3 (#6) | 8.3 (#74) |
| Spec score · Voice Ai Tools | 9.5 (#1) | 7.8 (#19) |
| Spec score · Game Voice Generators | 9.4 (#2) | 7.7 (#27) |
| API access | The FAQ says API access is offered to Enterprise customers for integrating Studio into other systems. | Yes |
| Security | The privacy policy says Google Drive access is optional and that Google user data is used only to provide or improve user-facing application features. | OpenAI says API Platform data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher, and that the API Platform is SOC 2 Type 2 audited. |
| Voice cloning | Users can make a Rapid Voice Clone with 4–8 seconds of audio; custom voice models are available by contacting Altered. | Yes |
| What it does | Altered Studio combines speech-to-speech voice morphing, text-to-speech, cloning, transcription, translation, dubbing and audio editing in one platform. | The GPT-4o Mini TTS model converts text into natural sounding spoken text through the speech generation API endpoint. |
Plans
Altered Studio
- FreeFree
- Creator$30 a month
- Professional$90 a month
- Creator$360 a year
- Professional$1,080 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
OpenAI Text-to-Speech
- TTS-1$15 a month
- TTS-1 HD$30 a month
- GPT-4o Mini TTS API usage$0.60 a month
In their own words
Altered Studio
Altered Studio combines voice transformation and audio production tools for creating professional voice content. Its Speech-to-Speech and Performance-to-Performance morphing changes a voice while retaining the speaker’s performance. Other tools include text-to-speech, voice cloning, AI voice cleaning, denoising, audio editing, DSP effects and batch processing. Studio supports transcription and translation in 75+ languages, and text-to-speech voice-over in 70+ languages. A Rapid Voice Clone can be made from 4–8 seconds of audio; custom voice models are available by contacting Altered. The online Voice Editor can work with Google Drive audio, while RealTime Pro routes audio through a virtual microphone to apps including Discord, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. The free plan includes 3 minutes per month of voice morphing and 10,000 AI tokens. Creator costs $30 a month billed annually; Professional costs $90 a month billed annually. Desktop use requires a Windows PC with an 8GB+ Nvidia GPU, and mobile devices are not currently supported.
OpenAI Text-to-Speech
OpenAI Text-to-Speech has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.