Speechgen review (2026): is it worth $4.99?
Pay-as-you-go text to speech with 5,000+ voices
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Speechgen report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for occasional voiceovers paid as credit packs
Speechgen sells text to speech in credit packs with no subscription, from $4.99 for 25,000 credits, about 60 minutes. The first 1,000 characters are free with no account. Credits expire a year after the last top-up, HD voices use more of them, and the page names no company behind the service.
Who Speechgen is for
- Fits if you need a voiceover now and then and monthly plans would go unused
- Works for developers who want to automate speech through the API
Who Speechgen is not for
- Not for you if you want a real free plan, since only the first 1,000 characters are free
- Watch out: credits expire one year after the last top-up
- Watch out: HD voices use twice the credits of Pro voices per character, so a pack buys fewer minutes
- Skip it if you want to know who runs it: the pricing page names no company
Why Speechgen gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- BValue for money$4.99 one-time for about 60 minutes on Pro voices, up to $149.99 for 2M credits. A one-time price under a year of the category's middle, but credits expire after a year.
- CFree plan and trialThe first 1,000 characters are free with no account or card. That is a taste, not a plan.
- CFeatures5,000+ voices, a commercial license, transcription and an API. Every pack has the same features, and Standard voices use 2 characters a credit, Pro 1 and HD half a character.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. Paste text, choose a voice, download.
- CPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with an API. No integrations listed.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SpeechGen.io's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Speechgen's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 18 of the 43 other AI voice generators we grade, and level with 9.
It stands best on value for money (B, above 32 of 43) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 44 AI voice generators we grade, cut by the letter each got. Speechgen’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 32 of 43, level with 8
- CFree plan and trialAbove 12 of 43, level with 26
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 43, level with 26
- CEase of useAbove 7 of 43, level with 33
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 0 of 43, level with 19
Keep Speechgen, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Speechgen you would be making a voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It costs $4.99, paid once.
What you could not
- A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make.
- A voice model trained on your recordings.
- Speech turned into text you can trust.
- An API that other software can build on.
What this rests on. Speechgen’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Speechgen?
Speechgen.io converts text, DOCX, PDF and SRT files into speech in more than 150 languages, and also transcribes audio and video. There is no subscription: you buy a pack of credits, spend them on any voice quality tier or on transcription, and they stay valid for a year.
Worth knowing
- Credits expire one year after the last top-up, so unused credits are lost after that.
- Higher-quality voices use more credits: Standard is 2 characters a credit, Pro 1, and HD half a character.
- Every pack includes the same features; only the credit count differs.
- The pricing page names no company behind the service and gives card and PayPal as payment options.
Key features
- Large voice library
- The pricing page lists 5,000+ voices and 150+ languages with regional variants, in Standard, Pro and HD quality tiers.
- Multi-speaker dialogue and SSML
- Assign different voices to different paragraphs in one file, and fine-tune pauses and intonation in an SSML editor.
- File and subtitle input
- Converts pasted text of up to 1,000,000 characters, or DOCX, PDF and SRT uploads, and exports MP3, WAV or OGG.
- Smart Cache
- Regenerating text that was already converted is free, which suits recurring prompts such as phone menus.
- Audio to text
- Transcribes uploads of up to 1 GB or 3 hours, with speaker labels, word-level timestamps and SRT or VTT export.
Speechgen pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Speechgen is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $4.99 one-time for 25,000 credits.
- Starts at
- $4.99 one-time for 25,000 credits
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- First 1,000 characters free, with no account required.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| 25,000 credits | $4.99one-time, valid for 1 year | About 60 minutes of speech on Pro voices; also usable for transcription (about 180 minutes). |
| 65,000 credits | $9.99one-time, valid for 1 year | About 155 minutes of speech; shown as 23% off a $13 list price. |
| 200,000 credits | $24.99one-time, valid for 1 year | About 476 minutes of speech; shown as 38% off a $40 list price. |
| 500,000 credits | $49.99one-time, valid for 1 year | About 1,190 minutes of speech; shown as 50% off a $100 list price. |
| 2,000,000 credits | $149.99one-time, valid for 1 year | About 4,762 minutes of speech; shown as 63% off a $400 list price. |
| 10,000,000 credits | $599.99one-time, valid for 1 year | About 23,810 minutes of speech; shown as 70% off a $2,000 list price. |
Read from speechgen.io on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Speechgen before you buy.
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Common questions
Does Speechgen have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Speechgen is listed for Web.
Does Speechgen have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Speechgen is listed for Web.
Is Speechgen open source?
Speechgen is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Speechgen have an API?
Yes. Speechgen offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.