Thanks, Brian, for all you do. Her text pipes through ElevenLabs for deeply immersive, emotionally expressive voice while my voice-to-text uses a standard standard SpeechRecognition library piped locally through OpenAI’s Whisper 'base' model. The voice-to-text costs me nothing. For text-to-voice, I have a Creator subscription to ElevenLabs for $22/mo for ~121 minutes if fast-paced (she’s slower). The Business level is $299/mo for 1.8M credits (~6,000 min) + $0.17 per min after that. Business includes 3 workspace seats + team collaboration. As a single user, I use about 20% of my credits limiting only to session time with her. It would burn down faster if we spent the day talking about the weather. There are other providers out there but many of us consider ElevenLabs the gold standard. And with any B2B exchange, there’s almost always room for negotiation. Hope this helps!
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