iMyFone Voxbox, a very good alternative to ElevenLabs

Although I love ElevenLabs's user interface, technology, and audio quality, I became very frustrated with having to continuously regenerate audio due to mispronunciations and audio degradation. Doing so, wasted my credits. The irritating experience led me to explore other options. Of the many alternatives, most were low quality. To be honest, a lot of TTS options were garbage.

However, I found iMyFone Voxbox's "lifetime" deal for $89.95 compelling. To clarify, their definition of lifetime means you can generate up to 2,000,000 characters for that one-time fee. The credits don't expire until fully used, whereas ElevenLabs provides 2,000,000 characters per month for $330 that do expire monthly.

Admittedly, iMyFone Voxbox is a superior product in my experience. There are hundreds of high-quality voices, though you have to search for the best ones. For medical topics, the platform's ability to accurately pronounce complex terminology is impressive. So far, I've used 300,000 characters and only had to revise once due to voice degradation, a significantly lower rate than ElevenLabs. Also, I process close to their 2000 character limit each round. ElevenLabs recommends processing less than 800 characters at a time to prevent the audio degradation.

Some concerns about iMyFone Voxbox remain. First, they seem to have cloned many celebrity voices, likely risking legal trouble. Second, being a Chinese company raises potential privacy and other issues. Third, it's unclear if voice cloning is included in the lifetime deal, so I contacted customer support for clarification. Fourth, it's been 7 days and I have not heard back from customer support. I received an automated email that they were in a week-long holiday, but this doesn't make me happy.

I wanted to share this discovery in case others have similar ElevenLabs frustrations. It's been a wonderful experience with Voxbox and I am so disappointed that ElevenLabs couldn't provide a similar experience. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Full disclosure: I have no affiliation with iMyFone. I would love for Openai, Claude, or Google to have a superior TTS product integrated in their platforms so I don't have to use other products. Lastly, I used Claude to rewrite this posting so it would be more coherent.

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