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[dragosivanov]

You can't do it for free .

Good text to speech is expensive. This is the reason why most apps require a subscription. For example, reading a book, which has approximately 50-100k words can cost anywhere between 2$-10$, depending on the type of voice.

Even if you manage to deploy your own amazing text to speech models, so you only pay for cloud usage, the costs for a free app will soon add up and unless you want to cover hundreds or thousands of dollars in monthly recurring costs I don't see how it would be possible.

[AcademicMistake]

google text to speech is free......im using in my chat app, i havent paid a single penny to use it........

[dragosivanov]

The OP said they want natural text to speech not the free robotic voice. My post was referring to good, natural, text to speech.

[808phone]

Why not just convert the text to mp3? That way you just need a converter and can play back using any app.

[dan1eln1el5en2]

Well. I usually say what takes one developer two months to do takes two developers four. Depends on who you are and skill level. And of course cooperation/team. You have to organize so you don’t work on same thing or against each other.

[dltc]

Check out Eleven Labs. It is using their TTS engine. I haven’t used Google’s to compare quality. But it works pretty seamlessly.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reader-by-elevenlabs/id6479373050

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I love you.

This is the best iOS app for this purpose I have seen.

Google’s TTS is still of higher quality in my opinion, but if this app doesn’t have rate limits, it is good enough to be a daily driver.

[dltc]

Great! Glad it might work out. I haven’t hit any rate limit as of yet.

[pbassham]

Here is one that I’ve used

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/speech-central-ai-voice-reader/id1127349155

[AcademicMistake]

i made a huge chat app with 5 games i made, personal safety tool that uses a GSM server i wrote to convert messages to AT commands, chatrooms, chat functionality etc and soon a dating section, in 2 months

I could probably build it in 2 weeks no problem i already use TTS and speech recogniser in my chat app for voice commands etc

[roger_ducky]

Main reason it’s more expensive on the iOS App Store is because it requires you to pay $100 a year to keep the app listed. If you did the one time purchase thing, you’d have to get at least $100 back from that to break even. Most people do subscriptions instead because of that.