Language Coverage & Costs

What each language costs, band by band

The full breakdown behind the rate card — every VALSEA language for speech-to-text and text-to-speech, which band it falls into, and that band's exact list price. Every language in a band is billed at the same flat rate as the rate card above.

Speech-to-Text Text-to-Speech

Speech-to-Text

Streaming & batch transcription, priced per minute of audio processed.

Standard 59 languages

Core, widely-used languages — flat $0.006/min list price for every language in this band

LanguageRegionStreaming Price/MinBatch Price/Min
AlbanianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
ArmenianCentral & W. Asia$0.006$0.006
AsturianWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
AzerbaijaniCentral & W. Asia$0.006$0.006
BasqueWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
BulgarianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
BurmeseSoutheast Asia$0.006$0.006
CatalanWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
CroatianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
CzechEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
DanishNorthern Europe$0.006$0.006
DutchWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
EnglishEnglish Variants$0.006$0.006
English (Australia)English Variants$0.006$0.006
English (Philippines)English Variants$0.006$0.006
English (UK)English Variants$0.006$0.006
English (US)English Variants$0.006$0.006
EstonianNorthern Europe$0.006$0.006
FinnishNorthern Europe$0.006$0.006
FrenchWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
French (Canada)Western Europe$0.006$0.006
GalicianWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
GeorgianCentral & W. Asia$0.006$0.006
GermanWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
GreekEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
HebrewMiddle East & N. Africa$0.006$0.006
HungarianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
IcelandicNorthern Europe$0.006$0.006
ItalianWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
JavaneseSoutheast Asia$0.006$0.006
KurdishCentral & W. Asia$0.006$0.006
KyrgyzCentral & W. Asia$0.006$0.006
LaoSoutheast Asia$0.006$0.006
LatvianNorthern Europe$0.006$0.006
LithuanianNorthern Europe$0.006$0.006
LuxembourgishWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
MacedonianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
MalaySoutheast Asia$0.006$0.006
MalteseWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
MaoriPacific & Oceania$0.006$0.006
MongolianEast Asia$0.006$0.006
NorwegianNorthern Europe$0.006$0.006
Persian (Farsi)Middle East & N. Africa$0.006$0.006
PolishEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
PortugueseWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
Portuguese (Brazil)Western Europe$0.006$0.006
RomanianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
SerbianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
SlovakEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
SlovenianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
SpanishWestern Europe$0.006$0.006
Spanish (Mexico)Western Europe$0.006$0.006
Spanish (Spain)Western Europe$0.006$0.006
Spanish (US)Western Europe$0.006$0.006
SwedishNorthern Europe$0.006$0.006
TurkishCentral & W. Asia$0.006$0.006
UkrainianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.006$0.006
VietnameseSoutheast Asia$0.006$0.006
WelshWestern Europe$0.006$0.006

Regional & Real-time 38 languages

Regional accents & real-time streaming — flat $0.017/min list price for every language in this band. 12 of these bill at the lower Standard rate when processed via Batch instead of Streaming (see badge).

LanguageRegionStreaming Price/MinBatch Price/Min
AssameseSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
BengaliSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
Bengali (Bangladesh)South Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
BodoSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
CantoneseEast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
Chinese MandarinEast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
DogriSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
English (India)English Variants$0.017$0.017
Filipino / TagalogSoutheast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
Gan ChineseEast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
GujaratiSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
HakkaEast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
HindiSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
HokkienEast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
IndonesianSoutheast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
Jin ChineseEast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
KannadaSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
KashmiriSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
KazakhCentral & W. Asia$0.017$0.017
KhmerSoutheast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
KonkaniSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
KoreanEast Asia$0.017$0.017
MaithiliSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
MalayalamSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
ManipuriSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
MarathiSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
NepaliSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
OdiaSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
PunjabiSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
RussianEastern Europe & Balkans$0.017$0.017
SanskritSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
SantaliSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
SindhiSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
TamilSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
TeluguSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
UrduSouth Asia$0.017$0.017
Wu ChineseEast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate
Xiang ChineseEast Asia$0.017$0.006Batch rate

Specialist 42 languages

Complex & low-resource languages — flat $0.073/min list price for every language in this band, same for Streaming and Batch

LanguageRegionStreaming Price/MinBatch Price/Min
AfrikaansSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
AkanSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
AmharicMiddle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
ArabicMiddle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Algeria)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Bahrain)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Egypt)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Iraq)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Israel)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Jordan)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Kuwait)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Lebanon)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Mauritania)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Morocco)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Oman)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Palestine)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Qatar)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Syria)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Tunisia)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (UAE)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
Arabic (Yemen)Middle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
BembaSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
FulaniSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
GaSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
HausaSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
IgboSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
KinyarwandaSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
LugandaSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
Northern SothoSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
NyankoleSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
OromoSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
PidginSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
ShonaSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
SothoSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
SwahiliSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
TswanaSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
TwiSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
WolofMiddle East & N. Africa$0.073$0.073
XhosaSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
YorubaSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073
ZuluSub-Saharan Africa$0.073$0.073

Ultra-premium 1 languages

Self-hosted, accent-specialized models — custom quote (no published per-minute rate)

LanguageRegionPrice / MinPrice / Hr
SinglishSoutheast AsiaCustom quoteCustom quote

Available on request 42 languages

Contact our team to discuss availability and tailored pricing for these languages.

AngamiAoAwadhiBajjikaBearybasheBhiliBhojpuriBundeliChakhesangChakmaChhattisgarhiGarhwaliGaroGondiHalbiHaryanviIdu MishmiJapaneseKarbiKhariboliKhorthaKokborokKurukhMagadhiMalvaniMarwariMizoNagameseNyishiRajasthaniRengmaRongmeiSadriSambalpuriSumiSurgujiaSurjapuriTaginThaiTuluUzbekWancho

Text-to-Speech & Voice Cloning

Priced per minute of generated audio (hour-equivalent shown for reference). TTS coverage is newer than our speech-to-text coverage and is expanding — more languages are being added as an upcoming feature.

TierPrice / Minute GeneratedTypical useExample languages
Standard TTS $0.035$2.10 / hour equivalent Real-time multilingual synthesis English (US/UK/Europe), Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Filipino, Khmer, Lao, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish, Russian, Kazakh
Enhanced TTS $0.047$2.82 / hour equivalent Regional & accented synthesis Singlish, Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay
Extended TTS $0.070$4.20 / hour equivalent South Asian language synthesis Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, English (India)
Premium TTS $0.172$10.32 / hour equivalent Complex dialect & premium studio-grade synthesis Arabic (all dialects/variants)
Voice Cloning $0.250$15.00 / hour equivalent High-fidelity custom voice cloning General multi-language cloning, plus 21 Chinese regional dialects and premium Chinese cloning

Per-language detail

Standard TTS 12 languages

Flat $0.035/min ($2.10/hr equivalent) for every language in this tier.

LanguagePrice / MinPrice / Hr
Cantonese$0.035$2.10
Chinese Mandarin$0.035$2.10
English US/UK + European$0.035$2.10
Filipino / Tagalog$0.035$2.10
Hebrew$0.035$2.10
Kazakh$0.035$2.10
Khmer$0.035$2.10
Lao$0.035$2.10
Persian / Farsi$0.035$2.10
Russian$0.035$2.10
Turkish$0.035$2.10
Vietnamese$0.035$2.10

Enhanced TTS 6 languages

Flat $0.047/min ($2.82/hr equivalent) for every language in this tier.

LanguagePrice / MinPrice / Hr
Indonesian$0.047$2.82
Japanese$0.047$2.82
Korean$0.047$2.82
Malay$0.047$2.82
Singlish$0.047$2.82
Thai$0.047$2.82

Extended TTS 11 languages

Flat $0.070/min ($4.20/hr equivalent) for every language in this tier.

LanguagePrice / MinPrice / Hr
Bengali (bn-IN)$0.070$4.20
English (India) (en-IN)$0.070$4.20
Gujarati (gu-IN)$0.070$4.20
Hindi (hi-IN)$0.070$4.20
Kannada (kn-IN)$0.070$4.20
Malayalam (ml-IN)$0.070$4.20
Marathi (mr-IN)$0.070$4.20
Odia (od-IN)$0.070$4.20
Punjabi (pa-IN)$0.070$4.20
Tamil (ta-IN)$0.070$4.20
Telugu (te-IN)$0.070$4.20

Premium TTS 1 languages

Flat $0.172/min ($10.32/hr equivalent) for every language in this tier.

LanguagePrice / MinPrice / Hr
Arabic (all variants)$0.172$10.32

Voice Cloning 27 languages

Flat $0.250/min ($15.00/hr equivalent) for every language in this tier, plus general multi-language cloning support beyond this catalogued list.

LanguagePrice / MinPrice / Hr
Beijing$0.250$15.00
Cantonese$0.250$15.00
Chinese$0.250$15.00
Chinese (premium)$0.250$15.00
Chinese Mandarin$0.250$15.00
Chongqing$0.250$15.00
Gansu$0.250$15.00
Guizhou$0.250$15.00
Hebei$0.250$15.00
Henan$0.250$15.00
Hubei$0.250$15.00
Hunan$0.250$15.00
Jiangxi$0.250$15.00
Nanjing$0.250$15.00
Ningbo$0.250$15.00
Ningxia$0.250$15.00
Northeastern Chinese$0.250$15.00
Qingdao$0.250$15.00
Shaanxi$0.250$15.00
Shandong$0.250$15.00
Shanghainese$0.250$15.00
Shanxi$0.250$15.00
Sichuan$0.250$15.00
Southern Min (Hokkien/Taiwanese)$0.250$15.00
Tianjin$0.250$15.00
Yunnan$0.250$15.00
Zhejiang$0.250$15.00