AssemblyAI adds speech generation for voice agents at $15 per million characters

AssemblyAI founder Dylan Fox adds speech generation to its transcription platform for $15 per million characters. Production performance at scale remains unproven.

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Primary source: Aligned News — AI Intelligence

Why it matters

TTS-1 moves AssemblyAI into speech generation, giving Fox a chance to sell more of the voice-agent stack. Independent testing and production call outcomes will determine whether the latency and scale pitch holds.

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AssemblyAI added speech generation to its voice-AI platform on October 27th, launching AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model, for developers building voice agents. Founder and CEO Dylan Fox (@YouveGotFox) is extending AssemblyAI from recognizing speech to generating the replies callers hear.

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