What AI Voiceover Costs per Finished Minute
Buyers price voiceover in minutes, not characters. What per-finished-minute really includes, how a pay-as-you-go engine compares to actors and subscriptions, and where the hidden costs hide.
The Text-to-Speech Guide
Updated October 30, 2026 · By Resona Editorial Team
Text-to-speech turns typed text into spoken audio. This guide gathers our practical writing on TTS pricing, what makes synthetic speech sound natural, how to record a clean source sample, and what AI voiceover costs per finished minute. Each section opens a deeper article.
Pricing & cost
Recording a clean source
How to Record a Voice Sample That Clones Well
A checklist for sample cleanliness, content and length — the foundation for both cloning and high-quality TTS voices.
Start generating speech
Open the Resona console, type your script, and generate speech in 83 languages from a cloned or library voice. Speech is billed by the character at 4,200 credits per million UTF-8 bytes, credits never expire, and there is no subscription. See the text-to-speech feature page for the full feature list, or read about Resona for who we are and how we handle your data.