Replica Studios close down

[jollyro]

I am sad to see the Replica Studios go out of business. I guess my only a quarter finished project is dead now because I do not have access on the voices anymore. Impossible to finish it until June 30th. I just started to re-do the old sequences in IC8 to give the characters more emotions and better movement. I did not see this coming. Is there another service out like this that a hobbyist can afford?

[thebiz.movies]

Replica Studios shut down.

I have an opensource project that uses Microsoft Speech AI. You have to sign up for a free Azure account, but Microsoft gives you 500,000 characters per month free. That’s about 10 - 15 hours of text. I just updated this week and there are now 95 voices. There are 300 or 400 from Azure Speech, but I only use the English ones. You can filter by male or female and country. I made this after reading this post. This is a Great Britain Voice Hollie, Emotion Angry. [Simon Demo Voice Hollie…

[animagic]

There is another thread about this here: Replica Studios shut down. - #16 by Darren01

I personally use ElevenLabs. I have the $5/month tier, which gives you 30,000 credits/month (about 30 minutes of speech). There is also some carry-over of unused credits, because I currently have 90,000.

Other than with Replica, legacy voices are kept, which is good for projects that take a long time. There is the option to clone voices from existing speech. You get 10 cloned voices with the cheapest tier. Then there is a Voice Lab, which offers voices that others have created. One of those counts as one clone.