Rime Labs

Rime Labs, founded in 2022, provides a speech synthesis API that delivers natural-sounding voices in real-time. The company offers over 200 distinct voices, with new additions regularly. Enterprise customers benefit from sub-300 millisecond response times, ensuring faster-than-real-time generation. Rime Labs also offers demographically-tailored voice generation tools and a free trial with access to a low latency API and all voices. The developer plan costs $75 per million characters, including API access and low-latency for real-time voice generation, with the first 50,000 characters per month free. Custom plans are available for large volume and real-time generation needs. Recently, Rime Labs introduced Mist for IVR, a TTS product specifically designed for IVR systems. The company focuses on deep learning and deep linguistic expertise, exploring generative AI speech models and addressing AI hallucinations in text-to-speech model architectures. Their blog provides insights, expert tutorials, and cutting-edge techniques, emphasizing the importance of filler words for true-to-life TTS conversations and the significance of speed in conversational AI and user experience.