# Speechgen review (2026): is it worth $4.99? > Pay-as-you-go text to speech with 5,000+ voices Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** AI Voices & Text to Speech - **Made by:** SpeechGen.io - **Website:** https://speechgen.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a real free plan, since only the first 1,000 characters are free. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## 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. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** First 1,000 characters free, with no account required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 25,000 credits | $4.99 one-time, valid for 1 year | About 60 minutes of speech on Pro voices; also usable for transcription (about 180 minutes). | | 65,000 credits | $9.99 one-time, valid for 1 year | About 155 minutes of speech; shown as 23% off a $13 list price. | | 200,000 credits | $24.99 one-time, valid for 1 year | About 476 minutes of speech; shown as 38% off a $40 list price. | | 500,000 credits | $49.99 one-time, valid for 1 year | About 1,190 minutes of speech; shown as 50% off a $100 list price. | | 2,000,000 credits | $149.99 one-time, valid for 1 year | About 4,762 minutes of speech; shown as 63% off a $400 list price. | | 10,000,000 credits | $599.99 one-time, valid for 1 year | About 23,810 minutes of speech; shown as 70% off a $2,000 list price. | Read from https://speechgen.io/en/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Speechgen before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Occasional voiceovers where a monthly plan would go unused - Creators who want a commercial license without a subscription - Developers automating speech through the API ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: B.** $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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The first 1,000 characters are free with no account or card. That is a taste, not a plan. - **Features: C.** 5,000+ 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Paste text, choose a voice, download. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with an API. No integrations listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among AI voice generators - 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). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-voices ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: A voice model trained on your recordings. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Text to speech, Transcription, Public API, Voice cloning ## Alternatives - [Narakeet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/narakeet): Text to speech and narrated videos, paid by the minute. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/narakeet-vs-speechgen) - [NaturalReader](https://toolgpa.com/tools/naturalreader): Text-to-speech reader for listening to documents, with a voiceover app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/naturalreader-vs-speechgen) - [Listnr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/listnr): AI voiceover studio with voice cloning and podcast hosting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/listnr-vs-speechgen) - [Speaktor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/speaktor): Text-to-speech reader and voiceover tool for documents and video. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/speaktor-vs-speechgen) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://speechgen.io/en/pricing/ - https://speechgen.io/en/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/speechgen Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).