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2026
Switch to Speechify from inside speech-sdkSpeechify is now a direct provider in speech-sdk. Switch existing calls over with a factory function and an API key, no new client required.Developer Experiencevia speechify.ai
TTS now accepts sample-rate and bitrate-specific output formatsSpeechify TTS speech and streaming endpoints now take an output_format like pcm_16000 or ulaw_8000, so you pick the codec, sample rate and bitrate outright.Text-to-Speechvia speechify.ai
The API now exposes more safety limits at the edgeNew safety limits at the API edge: rate-budget response headers, one JSON body-size path, clearer 413 and 415 errors, and pre-auth IP throttling on token mints.Securityvia speechify.ai
Dynamic video narration using the Speechify Voice Cloning APIClone a voice from a short sample and use it to narrate dynamic video content programmatically via the REST API.Voice Cloningvia speechify.ai
Your pay hasn't moved since 2008. FTSE 100 CEO pay just set its fourth record in a row.FTSE 100 CEO pay hit a median £5.06 million in 2025/26, a fourth record in a row and 130 times the typical UK worker, while real wages sit at 2008 levels.Careervia medium.com
Google just cut the price of decent speech by 70%, quietlyGemini 3.5 Flash TTS drops to $6 per million tokens, putting decent speech at $0.54 an hour and landing Google on top of the cheapest quality voices.AIvia medium.com
Inworld TTS-2, six weeks after the price cut: the consumer-app play, reviewedInworld TTS-2 reviewed six weeks after the price cut: what $10 to $25 per million characters buys, and where the consumer-app pitch really lands.AIvia medium.com
Workspace webhooks now have endpoint management and versioned payloadsSpeechify workspace webhooks now support managed endpoints, delivery history, a resource.action event catalog, combined signatures, and per-endpoint API versions.APIsvia speechify.ai
API keys now carry clearer scopes and usage attributionSpeechify API keys now have cleaner scope tiers, service-account inheritance, and usage attribution that makes spend easier to trace back to a workload.APIsvia speechify.ai
How we think about latency in SpeechifyAI voice agentsBaseten published a case study on the SpeechifyAI voice agent stack. This is our view on why model co-location matters for live calls.Voice Agentsvia speechify.ai