Text to speech S0 standard tier - 0.5 Million characters free, where?

Benoit Rivaux 0 Reputation points
2024-04-11T17:51:28.7233333+00:00

Hello,

I am using the cognitive text to speech service API with the 0 standard tier.

I am not understanding why I am not getting the 0.5 million free credits per month that the free tier offers.

Based on the support I spoke to over the chat, I should be getting it, bit I am still paying for each text to speech exchange.

Any idea please?

Thanks

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  1. navba-MSFT 17,120 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2024-04-17T05:29:21.74+00:00

    @Benoit Rivaux Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

    The Azure AI Speech service does offer 0.5 million characters free per month for the Neural Text to Speech feature under the Free (F0) tier. See the below screenshot:

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    More info here.

    If you are Free (F0) tier, You need to ensure that you haven’t exceeded the limit of 0.5 million characters in a month. Once the limit is reached, you may be charged for additional usage

    If you are on Standard Tier (S0), below is the pricing:
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    Also note that for Text to Speech: usage is billed per character. Check the definition of character in the pricing note.

    Hope this helps. If you have any follow-up questions, please let me know. I would be happy to help.

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