Cost of Custom Neural Voice

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We are a startup, and we're building a digital assistant. We would love the ability to use a custom neural voice to be able to differentiate and brand our assistant, but my understanding is that the cost of building a custom neural voice is in the $100k range and almost $3,000 just for the endpoint hosting. Is this the case?

alimasam · Answer

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heikora · Answer

AlimaSam&nbsp;we recently GA'ed the Custom Neural Voice creation capability. See docs here:&nbsp;Custom neural voice overview - Speech service - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Docs
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Pricing information can be found here:&nbsp;Cognitive Speech Services Pricing | Microsoft Azure
Model training is&nbsp;$52&nbsp;per compute hour.
Real-time synthesis:&nbsp;$24&nbsp;per 1M charactersEndpoint hosting:&nbsp;$4.04&nbsp;per model per hourLong audio creation:&nbsp;$100&nbsp;per 1M characters&nbsp;

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