use case
verified July 2026
The course that can afford to be updated.
Course content goes stale on a schedule nobody controls — a regulation changes, a product ships, a statistic is a year old. On a meter, re-narrating the affected modules has a price tag, so it waits for the annual refresh and the audio quietly drifts out of date.
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Why update cost decides curriculum quality
The cost of changing a course is what determines how current it is. When a module costs money to re-voice, the rational move is to batch changes and ship them once a year; when it costs nothing, you fix the sentence the week it becomes wrong.
The same arithmetic applies across a catalogue. Localising every module into six languages is priced by total characters on a meter, so the long tail of less-popular courses never gets translated at all.
The module goes out of date
Film
When re-narrating costs nothing per character, a correction ships the week the content changed rather than at the annual release.
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What the engine gives a course
- One cloned instructor voice across 23 languages, so the same person teaches every localised edition.
- Spell tags for codes, formulas and acronyms — read character by character rather than mangled into a word.
- Break tags to hold a beat where a slide changes, so the audio and the deck stay in step.
- Reproducible seeds, so re-rendering one corrected sentence does not shift the rest of the module.
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Notes — an engineer's checklist
01Can one instructor voice cover every language we publish in?
Yes. One reference clip carries the identity across 23 languages, so the localised editions keep the instructor rather than replacing them per market. Eight languages carry published, dated specimens at /languages/.
02How do we handle acronyms and formulas?
Wrap them in a spell tag and they are read character by character with letter and digit groups paced naturally; a pronunciation dictionary handles domain terms that should sound a specific way.
See also — related sheets
use case
2,000
A chapter costs the same as a sentence
Long-form narration on an unmetered seat: a whole book is a loop over requests, and the length of the book stops being a line item on the invoice.
capability
7.9
Delivery is a request parameter
The prosody dial moves measured pitch range from 10.1 to 18.0 semitones on one voice, one sentence — continuous per-request control on the production API.
use case
24 kHz
A reading voice that is not a punishment
Accessible audio on an unmetered seat: read the whole document, every time, without the character count arguing for a shorter description.
capability
0
Voice cloning from ten seconds, in the request
Zero-shot voice cloning: a ten-second reference rides inside each request, no training job, and the identity holds across 23 languages.
A key and one seat to build this on — the same production API this page measures.
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