Tool · Voice and speech

Google Cloud Text-to-Speech

Google's developer service that turns written text into spoken audio in many voices and languages, paid per character. Aimed at developers building apps; a monthly free allowance covers light use. Voice cloning is limited to approved customers.

Go to Google Cloud Text-to-Speech’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Closed
Only usable through the maker's app or API
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Licence: Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service (The maker's own terms)
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Can I sell what I make?: Yes
Terms s.5.1: customer keeps all IP rights in Customer Data; s.1.1 allows building the service into your own applications. Terms assign ownership; no explicit commercial clause for audio.
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Cost: Free option: Each month: 4 million characters of Standard or WaveNet voices; 1 million of Neural2, Polyglot, Studio or Chirp 3 HD. No free use of custom voices or Gemini TTS.
Plans below.
How you use it: Maker's own API
Used through the Google Cloud API and console; several voice models, all Google's own.
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Skill needed: Technical
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Made by: Google
Cloud terms define 'Google' by a separate regional entity page (not read), so no single company or country is given.
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Status: Available
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What you can make with it

A voice or speech, read my text aloud (main use)
A voice or speech, a copy of my own voice

text to audioaudio to audio

Cloning via Instant Custom Voice, restricted to allow-listed customers.

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Plans and prices

Plan	Price	Includes
Standard voices	$4 per 1000000 characters of text
WaveNet voices	$4 per 1000000 characters of text
Neural2 voices	$16 per 1000000 characters of text
Polyglot voices (preview)	$16 per 1000000 characters of text
Chirp 3: HD voices	$30 per 1000000 characters of text
Instant custom voice	$60 per 1000000 characters of text
Studio voices	$160 per 1000000 characters of text
Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS: text input	$0.50 per 1000000 tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS: audio output	$10 per 1000000 tokens	25 audio tokens = 1 second of audio
Gemini 2.5 Pro TTS: text input	$1 per 1000000 tokens
Gemini 2.5 Pro TTS: audio output	$20 per 1000000 tokens	25 audio tokens = 1 second of audio
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (preview): text input	$1 per 1000000 tokens
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (preview): audio output	$20 per 1000000 tokens	25 audio tokens = 1 second of audio

Some plans are not listed here; see the source for the full list.

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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Rights and safety

Trains on your work?: Doesn't train on your work
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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Real faces and voices: Copies a real voice (Instant Custom Voice), checks the person's consent
Needs a 10-second reference clip plus a 10-second recording of a fixed consent statement; access only for allow-listed customers via sales. Whether the consent clip is matched to the voice is not stated.
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Models it uses (not yet listed on Plainly)

Chirp 3 HD, WaveNet, Neural2, Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS, Gemini 2.5 Pro TTS, Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS

Other options for “A voice or speech, read my text aloud”

Adobe Firefly, Akool, Amazon Polly, Arcads, Async (formerly Podcastle), Azure AI Speech, Bark, CAMB.AI, Cartesia, Chatterbox, Clipchamp, Deepgram, DeeVid AI, Descript, Dia, Dubverse, Eleven v3, ElevenLabs, F5-TTS, fal, Filmora, Fish Audio, FlexClip, Fliki

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Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.