How many characters is a 15, 30, 45 or 60 second AI narration

Text-to-speech is billed in characters, but video is planned in seconds. Unreal Speech's pricing page says one minute of audio is roughly 750 characters (read 2026-10-06). That is 12.5 characters per second, and it is a rule of thumb, not a Sume constant: a slow, dramatic read can use half that, and a fast ad read more. Measure a sample from your own voice and use that rate.

Seconds to characters to cost

Reading the table

• A 15-second line is about 188 characters and rounds up to $0.01.
• A 60-second script, 750 characters, is $0.04. The exact figure is $0.03563 before the per-job round-up.
• A 3-minute narration, about 2,250 characters, is $0.11 in one job.

Count, then generate

In Python, len(text) counts characters the way the request does (Unicode code points, with a 20,000-character cap). Count the final script, not the draft, and subtract markup you will not send. Korean and Japanese scripts pack more speech into each character than English does, so the 750 rule overshoots for them; always test your own language.

len("Your approved narration goes here.")