Cepstral

by Cepstral

Long-running embedded TTS — IVR and telephony.

TL;DR

Long-running embedded TTS — IVR and telephony.

Best for legacy IVR and embedded TTS deployments with per-voice licensing. Pricing: from $29.99 per voice (desktop) / Enterprise contact sales.

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Pricing
from $29.99 per voice (desktop) / Enterprise contact sales
Platforms
Linux, Windows, macOS, API

What it is

Cepstral is a long-running US TTS vendor known for IVR-grade voices with per-voice perpetual licenses. The desktop SwiftTalker product is still sold to end users. Consent posture: synthetic voices only.

Best for: Legacy IVR and embedded TTS deployments with per-voice licensing.
Watch out for: Concatenative voices — sounds dated next to neural TTS.

Install / use

cepstral.com/downloads

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported9
HIPAA eligibleNo

Cepstral vs Whipscribe

FeatureCepstralWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
Pricingfrom $29.99 per voice (desktop) / Enterprise contact salesfree beta
Speaker diarization—Yes
Word timestamps—Yes
Streaming—No
Languages999
PlatformsLinux, Windows, macOS, APIWeb, API, MCP

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