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I have signed up for Speech Service and I have the data for training a model to create a custom voice by cloning the existing transcribed utterances. However, before I kick off the training of the model, I need to understand how much it will cost me.
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Hi, thanks for reaching out. Pricing details for Custom Voice (Text to Speech > Custom) is provided here, ensure to select region and currency from the filters. You can also use the Azure Pricing Calculator (AI + Machine Learning > Azure Cognitive Services) to estimate your costs. Hope this helps.
Thank you for the response. I have tried using the Azure Pricing Calculator already and the reason I posted the question here is that the pricing calculator does not say anything about the cost of training a model for a custom voice. It has pricing for using the voices and it says "1 model included for free", but does this mean that I can train a model on 20 hours of transcribed speech for free, even though that may take 2 weeks of training on a GPU?
Hi, thanks for following up. You are billed for each character that is converted to speech. For the free subscription, each month you can have 5 million characters and 1 model deployed for free. Hope this helps, let me know if you need further clarification.