Google Cloud Text-to-Speech alternative

Our voices are built for the phone call.

They slip into English and back the way people talk on calls.

Google’s numbers checked 17 October 2026.

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Google Cloud Text-to-Speech and Voice Infra at a glance
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech Voice Infra
Published price
₹2,849per 10 lakh characters, Chirp 3: HD (US$30) ₹1,800per 10 lakh characters
Voices
30 Chirp 3: HD for Hindi, and more Four, built for Hinglish calls
Phone-line audio
μ-law and A-law 8 kHz μ-law and A-law
Streaming
Two-way, in Preview, Chirp 3: HD only HTTP, and a WebSocket for a whole call
Every detail, with sources

Side by side

Here is Google beside Voice Infra.

Every price in rupees², from their own pages and ours.³

Price

Text to speech, ₹ per 10 lakh characters
Text to speech, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech and Voice Infra, in rupees per 10 lakh characters
OptionBar₹ per 10 lakh characters
Chirp 3: HD ₹2,849$30
Neural2 ₹1,519$16
WaveNet and Standard ₹380$4
Mira TTS every plan, from the first character ₹1,800
How we read these numbers

Dollar prices converted at ₹94.96, the ECB reference rate on 16 October 2026. The rate.

After each month's free characters. 10 lakh is 1 million. Gemini-TTS is priced by tokens, so it isn't drawn.

From cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing, checked . Ours from our price list.

What speech costs, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech and Voice Infra, in their words
DetailGoogle Cloud Text-to-SpeechVoice Infra
Published price Chirp 3: HD voices US$30 per 1M characters Neural2 US$16; WaveNet and Standard US$4; Gemini-TTS priced per token cloud.google.com ₹1.80 per 1,000 characters, on pay as you go and on Business (₹50,000/month commitment), before GST

What it costs

Google counts every character, including spaces and most SSML tags. Chirp 3: HD is ₹2,849 per million characters after a free first million each month. Neural2 is ₹1,519. WaveNet and Standard are ₹380.

Mira TTS is ₹1.80 per 1,000 characters, so a million cost ₹1,800. Every response tells you how many characters were billed, and a request that fails is free.

So Google’s older voices cost less than ours, and Chirp 3: HD costs more. Pick by how the voice sounds on your own lines, then by price.

Voices

Languages and voices, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech and Voice Infra
DetailGoogle Cloud Text-to-SpeechVoice Infra
Voices hi-IN: 30 Chirp 3: HD voices, 4 Neural2, 6 WaveNet and 6 Standard 30 Chirp 3: HD voices each for Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada and Malayalam cloud.google.com Four voices, ashu, neha, shruti and sameer, in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, plus Hinglish

Where it runs

Where it runs, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech and Voice Infra
DetailGoogle Cloud Text-to-SpeechVoice Infra
Where it runs Global, US and EU endpoints. In Asia Pacific, Chirp 3: HD is marked for Tokyo and Singapore the table lists Mumbai with no model marked cloud.google.com Speech recognition and the model run on our own GPUs in India

Getting started

Getting started, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech and Voice Infra
DetailGoogle Cloud Text-to-SpeechVoice Infra
Try it free First 1M Chirp 3: HD and Neural2 characters and first 4M WaveNet and Standard characters each month billing must be enabled cloud.google.com No sign-up to look around the sandbox ₹200 of credit once you confirm a work email; clips you play in the console are not charged
How to switch Google's Cloud Text-to-Speech API and client libraries cloud.google.com OpenAI's POST /v1/audio/speech: any OpenAI SDK works with our base URL and model mira-tts

Streaming

For developers, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech and Voice Infra
DetailGoogle Cloud Text-to-SpeechVoice Infra
Streaming Two-way streaming synthesis, in Preview, for Chirp 3: HD only streaming output is ALAW, MULAW, OGG_OPUS or PCM, and SSML is not supported when streaming cloud.google.com Raw PCM streams over HTTP as it renders a WebSocket endpoint keeps one connection open for a whole call

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Why switch

Why people switch to Voice Infra.

Everything a phone call in India needs, from one team, priced in rupees.

Mira TTS

₹1.80 per 1,000 characters.⁴

On pay as you go and on Business, paid from one rupee wallet. No plan to pick first.

Eight Indian languages, live.

Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. And the Hinglish in between, mid-sentence.

Speech recognition and the model run on our own GPUs in India.

The listening and the thinking: Mira STT and Gemma 4 26B. Mira TTS speaks.

Ready for the phone line.

Ask for 8 kHz μ-law or A-law and send it straight down the line. Or take 48 kHz PCM for everything else.

Phone agents, on the same key.

When you want the whole call, the same key and wallet run our voice agents.

AI agents: ₹5/min to start · ₹1.50/min all-in at volume.¹

Hear it before you decide.

Real lines from Mira TTS, one request each, unedited. Pick a language and press play.

Hear it

A big shelf, or a voice built for the call

Here is how Google and Voice Infra differ.

Google gives you a big shelf of voices in many Indian languages and a generous free tier, and if you already run on Google Cloud, that's convenient. Our voices are built for the way people speak on calls, slipping into English and back. They cost ₹1.80 per 1,000 characters, billed in rupees.

Google sells speech as part of Google Cloud, with several generations of voices on one price list. For Hindi there are 30 Chirp 3: HD voices, plus older Neural2, WaveNet and Standard ones, and as many Chirp voices for most other Indian languages. There’s also Gemini-TTS, which takes a prompt about how a line should sound.

We do less, on purpose. Our four voices are tuned for one thing: the way people talk on a call in India. Think of “Sir, आपका payment pending है, आज ही कर दीजिए।” Half Hindi, half English, one voice. The Google pages we read don’t mention mixing languages, so test it either way.

Hear it.

Real lines from Mira TTS. Pick one, press play.

Text149 characters

Hi, मैं नेहा बोल रही हूँ Acme Store से। आपका order dispatch हो गया है और Friday तक deliver हो जाएगा। Address में कोई change करना हो तो अभी बता दीजिए।

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:09

voice
Neha
language
Hinglish
speech
0:09
characters
149

Mira TTS, voice neha, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text119 characters

नमस्ते, मैं श्रुति बोल रही हूँ, दाँतों के क्लिनिक से। कल सुबह डॉक्टर साहब से आपका मिलना तय है। क्या आप समय पर आ पाएँगे?

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Shruti
language
Hindi
speech
0:08
characters
119

Mira TTS, voice shruti, rendered 16 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text117 characters

નમસ્તે, હું આશુ બોલું છું. તમારી લોનનો હપ્તો આવતા અઠવાડિયે ભરવાનો છે. તમે કહો તો હું અત્યારે જ ભરવાની રીત સમજાવી દઉં.

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Ashu
language
Gujarati
speech
0:08
characters
117

Mira TTS, voice ashu, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text167 characters

வணக்கம், நான் நேஹா பேசுகிறேன். உங்கள் பார்சல் நாளை மாலைக்குள் வந்து சேரும். அந்த நேரத்தில் நீங்கள் வீட்டில் இல்லையென்றால் சொல்லுங்கள், வேறு நாளுக்கு மாற்றி விடுகிறோம்.

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:10

voice
Neha
language
Tamil
speech
0:10
characters
167

Mira TTS, voice neha, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Text114 characters

నమస్కారం, నేను సమీర్ మాట్లాడుతున్నాను. నిన్న మీరు మా కొత్త ఇళ్ళ గురించి అడిగారు. ఇప్పుడు కొంచెం సేపు మాట్లాడవచ్చా?

48 kHz · MonoReady when you are

0:00 / 0:08

voice
Sameer
language
Telugu
speech
0:08
characters
114

Mira TTS, voice sameer, rendered 17 Oct 2026. One request, not edited.

Which to pick

Which is right for you?

Sometimes it's them. We'll say so.

Choose Google if…

  • You want lots of voices. Google lists 30 Chirp 3: HD voices for Hindi, and as many for Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati and more.
  • Your volume is small, or price-led. WaveNet and Standard cost less than we do, and the first 4M characters a month are free.
  • You already run on Google Cloud and want one bill and one console.
  • You need Punjabi voices today.

Choose Voice Infra if…

  • Your scripts mix English into Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada or Malayalam in the same sentence.
  • You want the speech made in India and billed in rupees.
  • Your code already calls OpenAI's speech API.
  • You want audio ready for a phone line at 8 kHz, with no converting.

Where the speech is made

Google offers global, US and EU endpoints. In its Asia Pacific table, Chirp 3: HD is marked for Tokyo and Singapore, and Mumbai has no model marked. Speech recognition and the model run on our own GPUs in India. If your compliance team needs a precise answer, ask both of us in writing.

Moving

Moving your code across is easy.

Your code stays. Three values change.

  1. Step 1

    Get an API key.

    Look around with no sign-up. When you are ready, create a key in Developers.

  2. Step 2

    Change three values.

    The base URL, the model and the voice. The rest of your OpenAI code stays as it is.

  3. Step 3

    Pick a voice.

    Four voices, each speaking Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

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Switching

The request changes shape. Google’s client takes a voice name and an audio config. Ours is OpenAI’s speech API: a model, a voice, a format and the text. Ask for pcm to stream, ulaw_8000 for a Twilio or Plivo stream, or wav for a file. If you stream LLM text into Google’s two-way synthesis today, our WebSocket endpoint does the same job. Text goes in as the model writes it, and audio comes back a sentence at a time.

Then put two or three Google voices next to ours, reading the lines your product says most. Let people who speak the language pick, without knowing which is which. The Hindi TTS comparison has the rest of the market’s prices.

If the voice is for a calling agent, you may not need to build one. Ours talk in this same voice and cost ₹1.50 a minute all-in on the volume plan.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["MIRA_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://sandbox.voice.miraiminds.co/v1",  # 1. our URL
)

with client.audio.speech.with_streaming_response.create(
    model="mira-tts",       # 2. our model
    voice="ashu",           # 3. one of our voices
    response_format="pcm",  # always send it
    input="चलिए, आपका order कल deliver होगा।",
) as response:
    for chunk in response.iter_bytes():
        ...  # raw 16-bit mono PCM at 48 kHz, playable as it arrives

Questions

Here is what people ask before switching from Google.

Is Google cheaper?

Sometimes. WaveNet and Standard voices cost ₹380 (US$4) per million characters, and Neural2 ₹1,519 (US$16), both below our ₹1,800. Chirp 3: HD costs ₹2,849 (US$30). And Google's free tier is hard to beat for a prototype.

Can I use Google's client library with Mira TTS?

No. We speak OpenAI's speech API, so you call us with an OpenAI SDK or a plain HTTP request. In most apps that means rewriting one function.

Does Mira TTS stream audio for phone calls?

Yes. Ask for ulaw_8000 or alaw_8000 and pass each chunk to your phone provider as it arrives. On a live call, the WebSocket keeps one connection open and lets you stop a reply when the caller cuts in.

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  1. AI agents: T5 is ₹5 a minute, pay as you go, with our phone line and call insights included. At volume, T1 is ₹1 a minute on ₹1,00,000 a month, and ₹1.50 with our phone line (₹0.30) and call insights (₹0.20). Prices exclude GST.

  2. Dollar prices converted at ₹94.96, the ECB reference rate on 16 October 2026. The rate.

  3. Google Cloud Text-to-Speech’s figures are from its own pages, linked beside each one and listed under Sources, checked . Ours are from our price list and docs.

  4. Mira TTS is ₹1.80 per 1,000 characters on pay as you go and on Business (₹50,000 a month). All prices exclude GST.

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