The ultra-realistic voices sound fairly good, probably as good as AWS Polly, maybe better (Didn't listen that long, and only the US accent female voices).
But... otherwise this service doesn't make a lot of sense. Mostly in the pricing and features. Why am I paying per month for what is a service that is competing with traditional voice overs, which charge per word or length? So if say I want to tie my small blog into this and a lot is written a month, it makes sense. But if I take a month off... I pay for nothing. At least with most products you're paying storage, but this is not that service.
Also no API and when it does come will cost $100/month? That means for sure I'm never using this. You'd be paying for ~8 average length novels per month of transcription - regardless of what you need - just for automation. Again, Polly has an API and costs pennies compared to this.
Our customers are mostly not software developers. It is an enterprise tool targeted at professional podcasters, audiobook creators, news agencies etc. Primarily for content creation, automation is a higher tier add-on. The freelancer plan is more than sufficient for one-off conversions for e.g. a mom and pop YouTube video. Most of the features we offer add tremendous value for enterprises who have extremely high demands for audio quality and creation.
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Also no API and when it does come will cost $100/month? That means for sure I'm never using this. You'd be paying for ~8 average length novels per month of transcription - regardless of what you need - just for automation. Again, Polly has an API and costs pennies compared to this.