Voice Standard and Voice Pro voices cost us by the second of speech. So a table read is now cut into parts by how long it takes to say: up to about 7½ minutes a part on Voice Standard and 10 minutes on Voice Pro, at the same price per part as before.
What it means for you
- English and other languages written in letters: a read of up to about 5,000 characters is still one part. A read made of very many short lines can take one more.
- Chinese, Japanese and Korean take longer to say than the same number of letters, so a long read takes more parts: about 1,400 Chinese characters fit in one Voice Standard part.
- A voice set to a slow pace takes longer to say, so its lines count for more. Slow and fast paces are now heard on every voice quality.
- Before a read starts, it shows how many parts it takes, about how many minutes of speech, why, and its price. The price shown is the price charged, and parts not read are refunded as before.
- Read aloud of one text and Voice Premium keep their prices.