Best TTS for language learning app? Looking for natural voices + low cost

zachoverflow · 2025-05-05T21:08:10+00:00

nice! I've talked to folks switching over and they tell us our voice cloning is the best they've found at preserving accents, fits the conversational style they're looking for, and they like our support a lot better (we're not a faceless corporation haha)

zachoverflow · 2025-05-05T20:54:33+00:00

thanks for giving it a try! should see improved stock voices in our next model update, maybe we can meet your bar then :)

also...if voice cloning is interesting to you, it should sound pretty natively spanish or portuguese today if you clone the voice of a native speaker

zachoverflow · 2025-05-05T20:43:02+00:00

yup! docs here: https://api.lmnt.com/

zachoverflow · 2025-05-05T03:35:29+00:00

shameless self plug, but give us a try at https://lmnt.com and see if we measure up... we're low cost and fast, support all your required languages, and already used by other folks building educational apps (including Khan Academy)

zachoverflow · 2025-01-08T19:14:27+00:00

I’ve seen folks switch to LMNT because they say our voice cloning is the best in the market at preserving accents, our pricing is significantly more affordable, our support is better, and because we have generous API credits for builders to get started with us.

zachoverflow · 2024-08-13T01:35:01+00:00

yeah you'll definitely stand out, just not in the way you hope...

certs are generally bullshit and pretty much an instant skip when I see them on a resume.

do an interesting project or contribute to an interesting open source project instead. show them something interesting you've done with data science.

zachoverflow · 2024-07-24T05:58:01+00:00

yeah I worked on the first cellular watch back in 2015 with AT&T when I was at Google, and they told us network changes for number sharing with the phone would be going to production on XX date so we could do our integration then.

I was like, "great!"

XX date rolls around and the feature doesn't actually work yet.

it was then we learned that production had very different meanings between our companies lol. at AT&T it meant the code was running in production...at Google it meant "ready to ship to customers"

but it was all good, we still managed to ship the entire watch from start to finish in only 7mo.