Flite vs iSpeech
Flite
github.comiSpeech
ispeech.orgSide by side
| Figure | Flite | iSpeech |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.25/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 15 |
| Spec score · Text-to-Speech Software | 8.5 (#54) | 9.2 (#6) |
| Spec score · Text-to-speech tools | 7.9 (#129) | 9.2 (#11) |
| API access | Yes | API access requires an API key, with mobile development, mobile production, and web/general production key types. |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes |
| Export formats | WAV | aiff,mp3,ogg,wma,flac,wav,alaw,ulaw,vox,mp4 |
| Languages | The project describes Indic language support and hundreds of languages through grapheme support. | The homepage says the Speech API supports text-to-speech and speech recognition in more than 30 languages. |
| Platforms | The project reports successful builds on Linux, Mac OS X, Android, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows through Cygwin or Windows Subsystem for Linux, and experimental WASI. | web,ios,android,api |
| Security | The README warns that command-line feature-setting options are debug facilities and malicious values can stop Flite from working, so they are not intended for standard users. | The privacy policy says iSpeech uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards, while stating it cannot warrant the security of transmitted information. |
Plans
iSpeech
- Plus$2.95 a month
- Premium$3.95 a month
- Pay Per Use$50 a month
- Pay Per Install$0.25 a month
- BasicFree
- HackerFree
- Plus$2.95 a month
- Premium$3.95 a month
- Junior$29 a month
- Pay-per-use 2,000 credits$50, paid once
In their own words
iSpeech
iSpeech provides text-to-speech and automated speech recognition through APIs, SDKs, and online tools. Its speech API can synthesize audio with multiple voices, formats, bitrates, frequencies, and playback speeds, and supports MathML and SSML. The API can also transcribe submitted audio across multiple languages and recognition models; iSpeech says custom models can be created. The homepage lists support for more than 30 languages. Audio downloads are available in AIFF, MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, WAV, A-law, μ-law, VOX, and MP4 formats. Listed access includes Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, API, and extension. The Basic plan is free for personal use, and commercial use is listed as available. Plus costs $2.95 a month, billed monthly, and includes 30-minute recordings, approximately 4,167 words. Premium costs $3.95 a month, billed monthly, with 12-hour recordings, approximately 100,000 words. Pay Per Use costs $50 a month for dynamic TTS usage only and includes 2,000 credits. Pay Per Install costs $0.25 a month and has a 10,000-install minimum.