Typecast API
A text-to-speech API with emotive AI voices and real-time streaming.
At a glance
Free + paid · Source review 2026-11-02- Price & billing
Free plan 15k credits per month; Lite 200k credits per month at $0.075 per 1k credits, with pay-as-you-go additional usage.
- Free allowance
Free plan 15k credits per month; Lite 200k credits per month at $0.075 per 1k credits, with pay-as-you-go additional usage.
- Best suited to
Adding expressive, low-latency AI voices to apps, agents and content via API.
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What to know before choosing
Good fit
Adding expressive, low-latency AI voices to apps, agents and content via API.
Limits and trade-offs
Free-plan audio is non-commercial with attribution; voice availability varies by model.
Plans and free allowances
Free plan 15k credits per month; Lite 200k credits per month at $0.075 per 1k credits, with pay-as-you-go additional usage.
Evidence
Official Typecast API page and pricing ↗ (reviewed 2026-11-02)
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A closer look at Typecast API
Typecast API is an expressive text-to-speech API for content automation, app services and conversational agents, offering 600+ voices, Smart Emotion and real-time streaming in 35+ languages.
Editorial guidance based on published documentation. The workflow below is a suggested starting point, not a measured product result.
When to choose Typecast API
- A developer needs natural-sounding TTS in an app, game, podcast or e-learning service with one simple API.
- A conversational agent needs real-time responses through a streaming API with 170-210ms time to first byte.
- A creator needs word- or character-level timestamps for automatic subtitles, karaoke highlights or lip sync.
When to choose something else
- A free-plan user needs commercial audio, which the free plan does not allow without attribution and non-commercial use.
- A team needing only a single voice with no emotion control may not need Smart Emotion or 600+ voices.
A practical starting workflow
- Integrate natural-sounding TTS through one simple API, using Python or JavaScript SDKs, CLI, or no-code tools like Zapier and n8n.
- Enter text and choose from 600+ unique voices across ages, tones and personalities, or clone a voice via Instant or Professional Cloning.
- Let Smart Emotion understand the surrounding context and automatically add the right emotional tone, or fine-tune manually with 7 emotion presets.
- Use the Streaming TTS API for real-time voice agents and chatbots, or the standard API for bulk generation and downloadable narration, adding Timestamp TTS for subtitles where needed.
Check before committing
- Free-plan audio cannot be used commercially and must include attribution.
- Voice availability may vary depending on the speech synthesis model used.
- This entry describes published API page features and does not compare voice quality through testing.
Common questions
What is Typecast's text-to-speech API?
A RESTful API that lets developers integrate 600+ distinctive AI voices directly into a service, across websites, apps, games, podcasts, e-learning and more, powered by the SSFM 3.0 model.
Can I control emotion, speed, and pitch?
Yes. Every voice supports up to 7 emotion and style presets, and intensity, volume, pitch and speed can be fine-tuned by adding preferred values to the API request.
What happens if I exceed my limit?
While subscribed to a paid plan, use can continue after exceeding monthly included credits, with additional usage billed automatically in credit bundles of 100,000 credits for Lite and 1,250,000 for Plus.
Is there a no-code integration option?
Yes. Typecast officially integrates with no-code automation tools such as Zapier, Make and n8n, and connects with Google Sheets to generate speech directly from a spreadsheet.
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Sources and checks
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