Every plan uses the same studio and voices. Pick how many minutes you need each month, or buy credits once.
For trying voice practice a few times a week
Billed yearly · save 30%
For daily language practice and regular voice-overs
Billed yearly · save 35%
For creators and heavy talkers who need hours every month
Billed yearly · save 40%
Pay once, no subscription. Pack credits never expire and are used after your monthly credits.
A one-off script or a couple of calls
A project’s worth of narration
Hours of voice, used at your own pace
Prices in USD. Taxes may apply at checkout.
FAQ
Pricing, privacy, limits and what happens when something goes wrong.
Dessa AI is an online voice studio with two tools: Live Talk, a real-time spoken conversation with an AI voice, and Text to Speech, which reads your script aloud and saves it as a WAV file. It runs in the browser on desktop and mobile.
People talk to Dessa AI to practise a language out loud, rehearse job interviews, think through ideas by talking, or just chat. Its Text to Speech is used for video narration, course audio, podcast intros, ad reads and accessibility.
No. There is no free plan, free trial or free credits; usage is paid with credits from a subscription or a credit pack. Live Talk costs 10 credits per minute, counted in 6-second steps, with at least 15 seconds per call. Text to Speech costs 1 credit per 160 characters of script. Subscription credits arrive every month and expire at the end of that month; credit pack credits never expire.
Dessa AI is built around the Dessa voice model. The Dessa model does not have a public API yet, so for now Live Talk runs on GPT-Live-1 and Text to Speech runs on HeyGen Voice. As soon as the Dessa API is available we will move the studio over to it.
Yes. Speech you generate with paid credits can be used in commercial work such as YouTube videos, podcasts, courses and ads, with no watermark. You are responsible for the script, and you may not use Dessa AI to impersonate a real person.
Your microphone is only streamed while a Dessa AI call is on air, and we do not keep recordings of your conversations. Captions live in your browser tab and disappear when you leave. Text to Speech files are stored privately in your account and you can delete them at any time.
Live Talk has 22 voices and lasts up to 20 to 90 minutes per call depending on your plan. Text to Speech has 24 voices, reads 39 languages (detected from the script) and takes 2,000 to 5,000 characters per script. Speech is exported as 44.1 kHz WAV.
No. If a call cannot connect or a script fails to generate, the credits are returned automatically. Dessa AI charges voice calls in 30-second blocks ahead of use, and whatever you did not use goes back to your balance when the call ends.