Narakeet Review: Text to Speech You Pay for by the Minute
Narakeet turns a script into a voiceover, and a slide deck into a narrated video. It offers 930 voices in 112 languages and accents. There is no subscription. You buy minutes once and spend them whenever you like.
It comes from Video Puppet Limited, a UK company, and has been running since 2018. This review covers what it does, what a minute costs, and where it shows its age.
What does Narakeet do?
The core tool is text to audio. Paste text, or upload a Word document, a plain text file or a subtitle file. Pick a voice and get an MP3, M4A or WAV back. Subtitle files are the clever part. Upload an SRT or WebVTT and the speech lands on the timestamps. You get a dubbed track that already fits the video.
The second tool is video. Upload a PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote file with narration in the speaker notes. Narakeet reads the notes, builds the video and adds subtitles. Or write the whole video as a Markdown script, with images, clips and screen recordings dropped in. Change the text, upload again, and you have a new version. No re-recording.
The third tool is speech to text. Upload an audio or video file and get a transcript in more than 100 languages.
Developers get an API and a command line client. Both plug into build pipelines, so documentation videos can rebuild themselves when the product changes.
Which features stand out?
- 930 voices in 112 languages and accents — including regional English from Scotland, Nigeria, India, Singapore and more
- Subtitles to audio — SRT and WebVTT files become dubbed tracks that stay in sync
- PowerPoint to video — narration from speaker notes, subtitles added for you
- Markdown to video — script the whole thing as text, edit it like text
- Free previews — test voices and scripts without spending a minute of credit
- API and command line — automate audio and video builds
- Full commercial rights — no royalties on paid accounts, YouTube use allowed
How much does Narakeet cost?
Narakeet sells minutes of output, not subscriptions. You pay once, the credit sits in your account, and it never expires. Each file you build is charged by its final length in one-second steps.
- Free account: $0. 20 conversions. Scripts up to 1 KB for audio and 10 KB for video. Personal and test use only. No API, no SSML, no batch runs.
- 30 minutes: $6. That is 20 cents a minute.
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