Voice agent pricing at real volumes: the monthly bill from 500 to 100,000 minutesPer-minute list prices are the easiest numbers in voice AI to compare and the least useful. Nobody pays list price: you pay a monthly plan plus whatever your minutes spill over it, and the plan decide1MSep 27 · 5 min readlokutor.hashnode.dev
Migrate from ElevenLabs to a CPU voice API in about 20 linesMoving text-to-speech from ElevenLabs to Lokutor is a small diff: same install, same one call, same play-through-speakers result. What changes is what sits behind the call: a few-tens-of-millions-paraSep 27 · 4 min readlokutor.hashnode.dev
Near-GPU TTS latency, zero GPU: what voice agents actually need in productionVersa 2.0 has produced first audio in 74 ms on one CPU thread. In our RTX 4090 test, Kokoro's first cold synthesis took 2.44 seconds, with 14.9 seconds of model load time. That is the attractive compaSep 27 · 8 min readlokutor.hashnode.dev
Voice agents on CPU vs the GPU incumbents: latency, cost, and a deliberate comparisonTwo numbers frame this post. On Lokutor, a production voice agent starts speaking in 139 ms at the median (TTS streaming time to first audio, one CPU thread), and a full minute of a running agent costSep 27 · 4 min readlokutor.hashnode.dev
ElevenLabs alternative for real-time voice agents: CPU-native, 2 cents a minuteElevenLabs is the default answer for synthetic voices, and for good reason: a large voice library, strong voice cloning, dubbing, and a broad creative suite. If you are producing narration, dubbing viSep 27 · 3 min readlokutor.hashnode.dev
