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          "registry": "pypi",
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      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "$4 per 1M characters for standard voices, $16 neural, $30 generative and $100 long-form. SSML tags aren't billed. Accounts opened before 2025-07-15 get 5M standard characters a month (and 1M neural for 12 months), newer accounts get Free Tier credits instead (https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
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        "enterprise",
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        "methodology": "0.3",
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          "maintenance": 50,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 100,
          "schema": 90,
          "security": 80,
          "transparency": 80
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
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        "assessment": {
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        "verdict": "IAM policies scope access per action and resource, and CloudTrail logs each call. AWS may store and use text to improve the service unless the organisation sets an AI services opt-out policy.",
        "strengths": [
          "IAM policies scope access per action and resource, and CloudTrail logs each call",
          "Quotas published per operation and engine, with backoff and jitter guidance for throttling",
          "Covered by the Amazon Machine Learning Language SLA",
          "Standard voices at $4 and neural at $16 per 1M characters",
          "Typed exceptions per action and a public service model in every AWS SDK"
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          "AWS may store and use text to improve the service unless the organisation sets an AI services opt-out policy",
          "A new account needs a card, and the monthly free characters only apply to accounts opened before 2025-07-15",
          "Neural, long-form and generative synthesis is limited to 8 requests a second by default",
          "Generative voices support only part of SSML",
          "No dated service change since 2026-08-12"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Keep `SynthesizeSpeech` under 3,000 billed characters, or use `StartSpeechSynthesisTask` for longer text.",
          "Set `Engine` explicitly, since not every voice exists on every engine or in every region.",
          "Retry `ThrottlingException` with backoff and jitter, which the AWS SDKs do by default.",
          "Check the generative SSML tag list before porting neural SSML.",
          "Ask for `OutputFormat` `json` with speech marks when you need word timings."
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        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 4,
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              "tasks"
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          "maintenance": 50,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 100,
          "schema": 90,
          "security": 80,
          "transparency": 65
        },
        "provenanceScore": 95
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      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install boto3   # or: npm i @aws-sdk/client-polly",
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://polly.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/speech\" \\\n  --aws-sigv4 \"aws:amz:us-east-1:polly\" --user \"$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"content-type: application/json\" -o speech.mp3 \\\n  -d '{\"Engine\":\"neural\",\"VoiceId\":\"Joanna\",\"OutputFormat\":\"mp3\",\"Text\":\"Your table is booked for seven.\"}'"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.tts",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/amazon-polly"
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        "amazon-bedrock-guardrails",
        "amazon-transcribe",
        "aws-secrets-manager",
        "aws-mcp-servers",
        "amazon-ses",
        "amazon-translate"
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      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Standard voices",
          "unit": "1m-chars",
          "usd": 4
        },
        {
          "item": "Neural voices",
          "unit": "1m-chars",
          "usd": 16
        },
        {
          "item": "Generative voices",
          "unit": "1m-chars",
          "usd": 30
        },
        {
          "item": "Long-form voices",
          "unit": "1m-chars",
          "usd": 100
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.",
        "domain": "amazon.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01",
        "domainNote": "The endpoints are on amazonaws.com (registered 2005-08-18) and api.aws, both AWS domains. The security.txt on aws.amazon.com passed its Expires date on 2026-09-24.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/",
        "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status",
        "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/doc-history.html",
        "securityTxt": "expired",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "score": 95
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-polly.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "amazon-polly",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://polly.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1",
          "method": "get",
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          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 253,
          "authRequired": false,
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          "uptime30d": 100,
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          "p95ms24h": 299,
          "samples24h": 272,
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              "probes": 35,
              "ok": 35
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
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              "date": "2026-10-04",
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              "ok": 267
            }
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:55:53.179828833Z"
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        "versions": [
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:20:05.799588968Z"
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        "pypiWeekly": 577776836,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:49.458098289Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:14.894515439Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "amazon.com",
          "registered": "1994-11-01",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/amazon.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:18.739682554Z"
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          {
            "url": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/doc-history.html",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:16.374349241Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "70fe277f702a"
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          {
            "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:28.654188145Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "3d9521893777"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-01T13:11:21.687931657Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "6ebd6be5615f"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-01T13:11:23.703347826Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "c2276020bd07"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:42.712757215Z"
      }
    },
    "b": {
      "slug": "playht-tts",
      "name": "PlayHT Text-to-Speech API",
      "vendor": "PlayHT",
      "vendorUrl": "https://play.ht",
      "kind": "model",
      "category": "text-to-speech",
      "summary": "Discontinued text-to-speech API from PlayHT, formerly supporting streaming audio and batch generation.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/playht-tts.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/playht/pyht",
      "license": "Apache-2.0 (Python SDK)",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.play.ht/api/v2",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "playht"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "pyht"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Two headers, `X-USER-ID` and `AUTHORIZATION` with the secret key, both from the dashboard. The endpoints no longer answer.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Sold as monthly API plans named Hacker or Pro, Startup, Growth and Enterprise, with rate limits set by plan. The plan prices couldn't be recovered from a primary source, since the API pricing tab wasn't archived and play.ht is gone. The last archived pricing page shows Studio plans only (https://web.archive.org/web/20250625003728/https://play.ht/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "Paid",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "Service shut down. No x402 or machine payment was ever documented (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 218,
        "npmWeekly": 14219,
        "pypiWeekly": 6561,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.play.ht/reference/api-getting-started",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.play.ht/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "speech.tts",
        "speech.streaming",
        "speech.voices",
        "speech.languages"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "closed-source",
        "retired",
        "python",
        "typescript"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2025-05-21",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 4.2,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 0,
        "ranked": false,
        "notRankedWhy": "Shut down 2025-12-31, so out of the ranking",
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 10,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 0,
          "maintenance": 0,
          "payments": 0,
          "reliability": 0,
          "schema": 31,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 36
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "high",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -4,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-10-01. docs.play.ht still documents `POST /api/v2/tts/stream`, the WebSocket API and batch jobs with no shutdown notice, and play.ht serves an old marketing page, while api.play.ht doesn't resolve and the platform closed on 2025-12-31. An endpoint removed while still advertised. https://docs.play.ht/reference/api-getting-started and https://inworld.ai/resources/migrate-from-playht"
        ],
        "verdict": "The old API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht for anyone porting code. api.play.ht doesn't resolve, so every call fails.",
        "strengths": [
          "The old API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht for anyone porting code",
          "SDKs remain on GitHub under Apache-2.0"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "api.play.ht doesn't resolve, so every call fails",
          "docs.play.ht documents live-looking endpoints with no shutdown notice",
          "Accounts, audio and voice clones were reportedly deleted at shutdown with no export",
          "No notice from PlayHT itself found on the live site, only third-party migration guides"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't call api.play.ht, it doesn't resolve.",
          "Ignore docs.play.ht code samples, they describe a closed service.",
          "Map PlayDialog or Play 3.0 Mini work to another TTS listing before writing code."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 1,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "high",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 4.2
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 0,
          "maintenance": 0,
          "payments": 0,
          "reliability": 0,
          "schema": 31,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 5
        },
        "provenanceScore": 66
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "# Retired. api.play.ht no longer resolves.\ncurl -X POST https://api.play.ht/api/v2/tts/stream -H \"X-USER-ID: $PLAYHT_USER_ID\" -H \"AUTHORIZATION: $PLAYHT_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"content-type: application/json\" -H \"accept: audio/mpeg\" -d '{\"text\":\"Hello\",\"voice_engine\":\"PlayDialog\"}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.tts",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/playht-tts"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "playht-voice-cloning"
      ],
      "area": "voice",
      "retired": "2025-12-31",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "PlayHT, Inc.",
        "domain": "play.ht",
        "domainRegistered": "2016-11-29",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250222123504/https://play.ht/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250202131353/https://play.ht/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "unknown",
        "checked": "2026-10-01",
        "notes": [
          "On 2026-10-01 api.play.ht didn't resolve, while play.ht and docs.play.ht still served old marketing and API reference pages with no shutdown notice",
          "Terms and privacy links point to Internet Archive copies from February 2025"
        ],
        "score": 66
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts.json"
    },
    "summary": "Amazon Polly has a score of 75.8 (BB) against PlayHT Text-to-Speech API's 4.2 (F). Both do speech tts. The largest gap is reliability, 100 points."
  },
  "kind": "anchor.page",
  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-playht-tts",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-playht-tts.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-playht-tts.md",
    "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-playht-tts.min.md"
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  "markdown": "Amazon Polly has a score of 75.8 (BB) against PlayHT Text-to-Speech API's 4.2 (F). Both do speech tts. The largest gap is reliability, 100 points.\n\n- Amazon Polly: grade BB, 75.8/100, rank #29 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-polly.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-polly.json\n- PlayHT Text-to-Speech API: grade F, 4.2/100, rank retired, not ranked. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/playht-tts.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/playht-tts.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Amazon Polly for reliability (+100), schema \u0026 documentation (+59), agent ergonomics (+82), security \u0026 auth (+80), payments \u0026 pricing (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+50), transparency \u0026 trust (+44).\n\nPick PlayHT Text-to-Speech API for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Polly | PlayHT Text-to-Speech API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 100 | 0 | Amazon Polly +100 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 31 | Amazon Polly +59 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 0 | Amazon Polly +82 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 80 | 0 | Amazon Polly +80 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 0 | Amazon Polly +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 0 | Amazon Polly +50 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 36 | Amazon Polly +44 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.8 · BB** | **4.2 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Polly | PlayHT Text-to-Speech API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | PlayHT |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://polly.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1` | `https://api.play.ht/api/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 (Python SDK) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-08-12 | 2025-05-21 |\n| Popularity | 743k npm/wk | 218 stars, 14k npm/wk, 6.6k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (8) | 1/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Polly.** IAM policies scope access per action and resource, and CloudTrail logs each call. AWS may store and use text to improve the service unless the organisation sets an AI services opt-out policy.\n\n**PlayHT Text-to-Speech API.** The old API reference is still readable at docs.play.ht for anyone porting code. api.play.ht doesn't resolve, so every call fails.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Polly\n\n1. Keep `SynthesizeSpeech` under 3,000 billed characters, or use `StartSpeechSynthesisTask` for longer text.\n2. Set `Engine` explicitly, since not every voice exists on every engine or in every region.\n3. Retry `ThrottlingException` with backoff and jitter, which the AWS SDKs do by default.\n4. Check the generative SSML tag list before porting neural SSML.\n5. Ask for `OutputFormat` `json` with speech marks when you need word timings.\n\n### PlayHT Text-to-Speech API\n\n1. Don't call api.play.ht, it doesn't resolve.\n2. Ignore docs.play.ht code samples, they describe a closed service.\n3. Map PlayDialog or Play 3.0 Mini work to another TTS listing before writing code.\n\n## Other comparisons with Amazon Polly or PlayHT Text-to-Speech API\n\n- [Amazon Polly vs Azure AI Speech text-to-speech](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-azure-text-to-speech.md)\n- [Amazon Polly vs Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-cartesia-tts.md)\n- [Amazon Polly vs Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-deepgram-tts.md)\n- [Amazon Polly vs ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-elevenlabs-tts.md)\n- [Amazon Polly vs Murf TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-murf-tts.md)\n- [Amazon Polly vs Resemble AI Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-resemble-ai-tts.md)\n- [Amazon Polly vs Rime TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-rime-tts.md)\n- [Amazon Polly vs Soniox Text-to-Speech](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-polly-vs-soniox-tts.md)\n- [Azure AI Speech text-to-speech vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-text-to-speech-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cartesia-tts-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [Deepgram Text-to-Speech (Aura-2, Flux TTS) vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepgram-tts-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/elevenlabs-tts-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [Murf TTS API + MCP vs PlayHT Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/murf-tts-vs-playht-tts.md)\n- [PlayHT Text-to-Speech API vs Resemble AI Text-to-Speech API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-tts-vs-resemble-ai-tts.md)\n- [PlayHT Text-to-Speech API vs Rime TTS API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-tts-vs-rime-tts.md)\n- [PlayHT Text-to-Speech API vs Soniox Text-to-Speech](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/playht-tts-vs-soniox-tts.md)\n",
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