Parent-teacher conference reminder in English and Spanish for $0.63

A school can send parent-teacher conference reminders in English and Spanish from a single slide image for $0.6333 on Sume: two voice-overs of about 350 characters at $0.0166 each, two Timeline renders at $0.10 and two caption jobs at $0.20. There is no video generation, so adding a third language costs about $0.32.

The teacher posts in this corpus cover countdown cards and microlessons. This is a different job: the same notice, in the family's language, with dates read aloud and shown on screen.

The slide and the script

Make one 9:16 slide with the date, the time window and the sign-up link or room number. Write the script around 350 characters: who the message is from, the dates, how to book, and a single sentence of reassurance. Keep the dates in words in both languages.

The Spanish voice

The TTS schema asks you to set language for every non-English transcript, because the provider assumes English when it is omitted. Set language to es and choose a Spanish voice from the voice library. A related post covers what happens when the voice and the language disagree: a mismatch warning that you must confirm explicitly. Use generation_config.speed between 0.6 and 1.5 if you want a slower read for a notice with numbers in it.

One render per language

Each version is a Timeline render: the voice as the audio spine and the slide as one still slot for the length of the audio, $0.10 per output minute rounded up (Timeline). Burn captions from script_text so the exact words of the notice are shown (video captions). Test one Spanish caption first and check the accents render before you make a batch.

For many classrooms

With 10 teachers each posting a notice in two languages the same build is $6.33, with the slides as the only manual step. A third language adds one voice, one render and one caption job: $0.3166 per notice.