Kokoro when you sell in English and do not want to configure anything
This engine has no emotion to choose, no sliders, and it reads no tags. You pick a voice, you type the copy, you get a recording — and for an English advert that is often the whole of what you need. It will not read Polish and we are not pretending otherwise: we checked it with the same sentence as the other nine.
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The script the engine was given
Our new collection is in the shop today. Cotton, linen, and the one colour that always sells out first. Take a look, order before two, and it ships the same day.
Specification
- Built by
- Hexgrad
- Speaks Polish
- no — reads Polish text phonetically
- Ready-made voices
- 20
- Steering the delivery
- speed and nothing else
- File from the engine
- wav — re-encoded to mp3 for this page
- Render time
- about 20s
- Cost
- 1 credit per 1000 characters, rounded up
What it is good for
- Nothing to set, so nothing to get wrong
- A voice and a speed — that is the list. Across twenty English product descriptions the lack of choice is a feature: every file sounds the same, because there is no field that could drift between them.
- Twenty voices, British and American among them
- The list is closed, so the engine rejects a typo in a name rather than quietly substituting another voice. Britain and America get their own read from the same list.
- Quicker than every other English-only engine here
- Of the four that do not speak Polish, this one comes back by far the soonest — Orpheus TTS can take nearly three minutes on the same sentence. Across a series of descriptions that is an hour.
When to pick something else
It will not read Polish, and that is not an accent problem — Polish words come out as syllables with no meaning. If the advert is in Polish, use MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD or ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 and do not try to work around it with phonetic spelling. Even in English the delivery here is flat: no emotion, no tags, no laugh. When you want a recording with character there is Chatterbox HD and its expression slider, and when you want a laugh mid-sentence, Orpheus TTS.
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The things this engine handles differently from the rest. The habits that hold for every model are collected separately, in the help centre.
- Do not put Polish text in here, and do not try phonetic spelling. The engine has no Polish sounds — what comes out is English pretending to be Polish words, not a Polish advert.
- Pick the voice from the list the field publishes. It is closed, so a wrong name returns an error and you do not pay for a read in the wrong voice.
- Match the accent to the market. The American and British voices sound clearly different and, selling into one of those markets, it is audible from the first sentence.
- Leave the speed at one unless the read has to fit a slot. It is the only field that changes anything here, so any departure from the default is heard.
- Keep the sentences short. The engine does not steer intonation, so a long multi-clause sentence is read straight through with no breath at the comma.
Questions about this model
Other models
- MiniMax Speech 2.8 HDA Polish voice with an emotion you pick and pauses you place.
- MiniMax Speech 2.8 TurboThe same Polish voice as HD, back sooner. For auditioning takes.
- ElevenLabs Multilingual v2It expands "24 h" into "24 godziny" by itself. For copy with numbers in it.
- ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5The shortest wait of the ten. For short adverts and quick takes.
- ElevenLabs v3You write the mood into the middle of the sentence, in square brackets.
- VibeVoice 7BTwo people talking in one file. In Polish.
- Chatterbox HDThe only engine here that will speak in your own voice.
- Orpheus TTSA laugh or a sigh mid-sentence. English, and slowly.
- DiaTwo people out of one text field. No voice to choose.
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