Simple usage-based pricing with no commitments. $50 in Credits provided for everyone, No Credit Card Required to start today. Contact us to increase your rate limits
Get Started - Free Credit1. Platform usage is billed per second but displayed in hours on the invoice.
2. Each STT request is subject to a minimum billing of 6 seconds and 1 second increment after that. A real-time request of 4 second is billed for 6 seconds or $0.0012 ($0.00020*6) and a real-time request for 7 seconds is billed $0.00020*7.
3. Custom Speech-to-Text model are built by training our standard model with additional client data using transfer learning. Pricing is the same for batch and real-time and is only for inference. Please contact us for the NRE training costs of a Custom model.
4. For Telephony Bot API and MRCP ASR, Session Time Increment is in addition to Speech-to-Text Realtime.
5. Rate Limits apply for pay as you go. Voicegain offers higher rate limits, lower pricing with volume & term commits. Please contact us at sales@voicegain.ai to receive custom pricing.
Deploy Voicegain on your GPU enabled infrastructure – Datacenter or VPC. Free 30 day trial provided. Pricing has a fixed annual support cost and a variable per port or per hour cost
Contact Us1. Voicegain Edge refers to our platform being deployed in client Datacenter (bare-metal) or VPC. Voicegain is deployed on a Kubernetes Cluster on your GPU enabled infrastructure. It can be monitored and orchestrated from Voicegain cloud.
2. Client shall incur infrastructure costs and shall be responsible for monitoring of Kubernetes infrastructure.
3. Definition of Port:
a. For Batch, Port is defined as throughput. So 20 Ports would allow client to process up to 20 hours of audio per hour for batch transcription.
b. For Real-time, Port is the number of concurrent sessions. E.g 20 Ports means a maximum of 20 Concurrent Real-time STT sessions during a month.
4. Each request is subject to a minimum billing of 6 seconds and 1 second increment after that. E.g. a real-time request for 4 seconds shall be billed for 6 seconds or $0.0012 ($0.00020*6) and a real-time request for 7 seconds shall be billed for 7 seconds.
5. Voicegain offers lower pricing for volume & term commits. Please contact us at sales@voicegain.ai to receive custom pricing.
You can stream audio for Voicegain transcription API from any computer, but sometimes it is handy to have a dedicated inexpensive device just for this task. Below we relay experiences of one of our customers in using a Raspbery Pi to stream audio for real-time transcription. It replaced a Mac Mini which was initially used for that purpose. Using Pi had two benefits: a) obviously the cost, and b) it is less likely than Mac Mini to be "hijacked" for other purposes.
Voicegain Audio Streaming Daemon requires very little as far as computing resources, so in even a Raspberry Pi Zero is sufficient ; however, we recommend using Raspberry Pi 3 B+ mainly because it has on-board 1Gbps wired Ethernet port. WiFi connections are more likely to have problems with streaming using UDP protocol.
Here is a list of all hardware used in the project (with amazon prices (as of July 2019)):
All the components added up to a total of $101.97. The reason why a mini monitor and a mini keyboard were included is that they make it more convenient to control the device while it is in the audio rack. For example, the alsa audio mixer can be easily adjusted this way, while at the same time monitoring the level of the audio via headphones.
Raspberry PI running AudioDaemon
The device is running standard Raspbian which can easily be installed from an image using e.g. balenaEtcher. After base install, the following was needed to get things running:
Here are some lessons learned from using this setup over the past 6 months:
You can find the complete code (minus the RASA logic - you will have to supply your own) at our github repository.
The setup allows you to call a phone number and then interact with a Voicebot that uses RASA as the dialog logic engine.
November 2021 Update: We do not recommend S3 and AWS Lambda for a production setup. A more up to date review of various options to build a Voice Bot is described here. You should consider replacing the functionality of S3 and AWS Lambda with a web server that is able to maintain state - like Node.js or Python Flask.
The sequence diagram is provided below. Basically, the sequence of operations is as follows:
“We selected Voicegain because they are accurate, affordable and easy to use. We deployed the entire platform in our datacenter in under 30 minutes.”
“We’re committed to improving learning for millions of students, so we selected Voicegain for its highly accurate and affordable transcription. We have been really happy with the product and its accuracy which has continually improved as they train their models.”
“Voicegain is amazing! They have a great ASR and a modern architecture. But what we really value is their prompt and timely support. We use both their MRCP ASR and STT APIs and they work great “
Interested in customizing the ASR or deploying Voicegain on your infrastructure?
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