Voice and text-to-speech Typecast vs WellSaid
Can you ship a game made with Typecast or WellSaid? By stored vendor quotes: Typecast: "Paid, or free with credit"; WellSaid: "Paid plan only", cheapest verified commercial plan $10/mo (billed yearly).
Both columns are the ledger's stored values. Open the tool page for the full quote and source link. This page does not invent a winner.
Paid plans are the cleaner shipping path. Free-plan output needs the attribution the license requires.
A paid plan is the shipping path. Free-plan output is not cleared for commercial use.
Built only from rows with a stored vendor quote. Open each tool page for the exact sentence, source link, and fetch date.
| Fact | Typecast | WellSaid |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Typecastverified Free is $0 with 3,000 lifetime download credits (about 5 minutes of audio). Generating and playing back voices is free on every plan; credits are spent when you download. | WellSaidverified The free trial needs no credit card and allows 3 download minutes per month, with no commercial rights. |
| Commercial use | Typecastverified Anything downloaded on the Free plan must carry attribution. | WellSaidverified The free trial's download minutes are labeled 'no commercial rights', so trial audio should not ship in a game. |
| Ownership of outputs | Typecastverified The Studio Terms of Use say that, subject to the terms and during a valid subscription period, you keep ownership of your content and own the output. | WellSaidunverified Unverified. |
| License caveat | Typecastverified Generated audio can be downloaded and used only during your subscription. After it expires, you can keep using audio you already downloaded, but you can't make new edits or downloads. | WellSaidverified The listed prices apply to new customers; existing customers on other plans are told to contact support to change plans. Paid plans meter downloaded minutes, not generation. |
| Steam disclosure | Typecastverified Player-facing art, sound, narrative, or localization made with this tool is the kind of shipped content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. | WellSaidverified Voice lines made with this tool and shipped in the game are the kind of content Steam's Content Survey asks about (Pre-Generated). This is Valve's rule, not a statement from the vendor. |
| Engines and export | Typecastverified There is no engine plugin. You export audio files and import them into Unity or Unreal as standard audio assets. | WellSaidverified The plan comparison lists export formats as MP3 on Trial and Starter, MP3 and TXT on Pro, and MP3, WAV, OGG, and TXT on Business and Enterprise. Game engines are not named. |