YouTube Shorts narrator voice: cost by script length
What a Shorts narrator costs on Sume TTS 1.0 at $0.0475 per 1,000 characters, from a 300-character line to the 20,000-character request cap.
'Youtube shorts narrator voice' is a common search. On Sume the narrator is TTS 1.0, and the price is linear in characters, so you can price a script before you write it.
Price table
| Script | Characters | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| One-line reply | 300 | $0.01425 |
| Short product script | 600 | $0.0285 |
| Full 60 s read (assumed 15 chars per second) | 900 | $0.04275 |
| Longer narration | 2,000 | $0.095 |
| Request cap | 20,000 | $0.95 |
Limits
One request accepts up to 20,000 characters, and audio over 1,200 seconds fails. A voice is selected by voice id, or by avatar id or handle if you want the same voice as an avatar. There is no model picker on the standard route; the router route takes explicit ids. Ask for word timestamps if you plan to caption from the audio.
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