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Airy

Fast, low-cost text-to-speech API and studio for creators and developers

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Airy is a high-speed, budget-friendly text-to-speech platform developed by Out of Set. It delivers speech generation with very low latency (around 200ms) and high throughput at a fraction of standard market costs. The platform provides both a web-based studio interface for content creators and an API for real-time application pipelines.

What it's for

  • Integrate low-latency voice output into conversational AI agents and real-time assistants
  • Generate voiceovers for video content and game dialogue at scale
  • Convert long-form text and news articles into audio cheaply

Features

  • High throughput reaching up to 2,283 characters per second
  • Sub-second end-to-end latency suitable for real-time voice applications
  • Web studio for manual generation and REST API for programmatic access
  • Support for English and Korean voice profiles
  • Library of over 100 character and narrator voices

Pricing

Freemium. Free studio tier; API billed at approximately $2 per 1M characters

Details

Type
AI model
Category
AI
Topic
Text to Speech
Open source
No
Platforms
Web, API
For
Developers building voice agents, game designers, and digital content creators needing fast, affordable TTS
Alternative to
ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Fish Audio
Tags
tts, voice, speech synthesis, audio, ai voice, api

Why it was saved

  • @anlgboy, 18 September 2026: Very cheap and fast TTS for production use: 100+ voices aimed at gaming, news and other production workloads.

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