Yandex

Russian technology company; in this spoke, the operator of yandex-speechkit — the hosted speech API whose Russian voices took the lowest character error rate of every system in russian-tts-evaluation.

It matters here as the incumbent of a market the rest of the corpus does not cover. This wiki's commercial-provider page has been elevenlabs and its frontier peers, all measured on English boards (tts-arena-leaderboard, open-asr-leaderboard) against English-dominant corpora. Yandex is a frontier-quality Russian synthesizer that appears on none of those boards, prices at roughly a twentieth of ElevenLabs per character, and publishes nothing about its methods.

Corporate structure is relevant to anyone acting on the price: SpeechKit's USD billing runs through Iron Hive doo Beograd (Serbia) and Direct Cursus Technology L.L.C. (Dubai), with rouble billing through Yandex.Cloud LLC — a split that followed the company's post-2022 reorganisation, and one reason availability outside Russia should be checked rather than assumed.

Connections

• operator of yandex-speechkit

Related

yandex-speechkit · russian-tts · elevenlabs · russian-tts-evaluation