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   "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-instant-custom-voice",
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   "confidence": "medium",
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   "url": "https://cloud.google.com/terms",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Cloud terms define 'Google' by a separate regional entity page (not read), so no single company or country is given."
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   "url": "https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "audio_to_audio reflects making a cloned voice from a 10-second sample."
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  {
   "field": "openness",
   "url": "https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
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   "note": null
  },
  {
   "field": "pricing",
   "url": "https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "high",
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   "note": "Prices per 1 million characters or tokens. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS preview ($0.50 in / $9 out, rising to $1 / $18 from 1 Jan 2027) and Flash-Lite not listed as plans. Spaces and most SSML tags count as characters."
  },
  {
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   "url": "https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
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   "note": null
  },
  {
   "field": "tasks",
   "url": "https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Cloning via Instant Custom Voice, restricted to allow-listed customers."
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  {
   "field": "trains_on_outputs",
   "url": "https://cloud.google.com/terms",
   "checked": "2026-10-12",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "confidence_label": "Checked, but the page was unclear or partial",
   "note": "Terms s.5.2: Google processes Customer Data only under the Cloud Data Processing Addendum and for no other purpose. AI training not mentioned explicitly."
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