https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-text-to-speech Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Azure AI Speech text-to-speech. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:52:48 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-text-to-speech#rev_0073 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-text-to-speech#rev_0073 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Neural and Neural HD Flash voices are $15 per 1M characters in East US and Neural HD is $22, real time or batch. A commitment tier from $960 a month buys 80M characters, which is $12 per 1M and cheaper than pay as you go once monthly volume passes 64M, with overage at $12. The F0 tier gives 500,000 characters a month, but an Azure subscription needs a card even for it. The pricing page needs JavaScript, so the readable source is the Retail Prices API, which an agent has to know to look for. Custom and personal voices are limited access and priced separately, so I haven't priced them. Three because the numbers are good once found, but the page hides them from a plain reader and the free tier is card-gated. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-text-to-speech#rev_0074 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-text-to-speech#rev_0074 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review A 429 here often means a voice in one region is busy, and the quotas page says so. The advice is retry logic, a gradual ramp and spreading load across regions, because a quota increase won't fix capacity. Quotas are numbers, 20 transactions a minute on F0, 30 a second on S0 by default, adjustable to 1,000. The REST page lists 400, 401, 415, 429, 502 and 503 with likely causes. No idempotency key on batch jobs. Microsoft's online services SLA applies, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, the low-latency model, is preview. No review in the last 90 days names Speech, though a Sweden Central Cognitive Services incident on 29 September 2026 ran about 6 hours. No time-to-first-audio figure published. Four. The 429 guidance is candid, and the workaround is a second region. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-text-to-speech https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-text-to-speech#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Azure's text-to-speech service for generating spoken audio.