KugelAudio
Voice AI and text-to-speech API developed and hosted in Europe
KugelAudio is a text-to-speech API that converts written text into natural-sounding speech across 39 languages, including accents and dialects. It addresses the need for reliable pronunciation of real-world content such as street names, postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, long numbers, IBANs, dates, addresses and currencies. The models are built, trained and hosted in the EU, with GDPR compliance, and can be used either through a hosted EU Sovereign Cloud service or deployed on-premise in a customer's own data centre.
The platform offers two models, kugel-2-turbo and kugel-3, both supporting streaming, voice cloning, speed control, break tokens, word-level timestamps, dictionaries and an integrated normalizer, with IPA notations available on kugel-3. It provides Python, TypeScript and cURL SDKs and integrates with pipelines such as Pipecat and LiveKit. The EU Sovereign Cloud is included by default for EU/EEA customers, with no US-based providers processing audio, text or voice references, and no training on customer content.
KugelAudio is aimed at developers and businesses building voice-enabled products. Pricing is usage-based, billed per generated second and shown per audio minute, with two model tiers at different rates. An Enterprise edition covers on-premise and dedicated deployment, higher concurrency limits, 24/7 support, a dedicated account manager and lower rates with committed usage. A free start is available without a credit card.
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