
Espressoเอสเพรสโซ
The lowest English read on the roster, for stories told in the dark.
Male · English · Audiobook narrator · 0:06espresso
Some stories are never told. They are kept, and passed from hand to hand, until someone finally dares to open the book.
The clip is a narrator's opening. Listen to the stop after passed from hand to hand, and the drop on open the book.
Espresso reads English from the bottom of the male range. The pace is slow, the consonants land, and a sentence is allowed to end before the next one begins.
The weight sets its range. It suits fiction, history, and anything with secrets in it, and it is too heavy for a product walkthrough, where a viewer wants a person on screen.
Cast it for#
- Audiobooks
- Fiction and narrative non-fiction in English, chapter after chapter.
- Documentaries
- History, true crime, and nature narration that needs authority.
- Trailers
- English teasers and title sequences read at the bottom of the range.
Reach for instead
In production#
- Audiobooks
English fiction and non-fiction.
- Audio novels
Serialized English fiction.
- Announcements
English trailers and title reads.
Call it from the API#
The voice field takes the id above. Every other value in this request is a Paxa TTS Flash default.
curl -X POST https://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PAXA_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"text": "Some stories are never told. They are kept, and passed from hand to hand, until someone finally dares to open the book.",
"voice": "espresso",
"model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1"
}' \
--output espresso.mp3import { writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
const response = await fetch("https://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PAXA_API_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
text: "Some stories are never told. They are kept, and passed from hand to hand, until someone finally dares to open the book.",
voice: "espresso",
model: "paxa-tts-flash-v1",
}),
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`TTS failed: ${response.status}`);
await writeFile("espresso.mp3", Buffer.from(await response.arrayBuffer()));import os
import requests
response = requests.post(
"https://api.paxalabs.com/v1/tts",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PAXA_API_KEY']}"},
json={"text": "Some stories are never told. They are kept, and passed from hand to hand, until someone finally dares to open the book.", "voice": "espresso", "model": "paxa-tts-flash-v1"},
)
response.raise_for_status()
with open("espresso.mp3", "wb") as f:
f.write(response.content)- Model
- Paxa TTS Flash
- Per request
- 5,000 characters
- Rate
- 15 credits per 1,000 characters
- Free credits
- 100 credits, about 11 minutes
Questions#
- How is it different from Latte?
- Latte is polished and sits higher, the read a brand film is scored around. Espresso is lower and slower, a storyteller.
- Can it read Thai?
- It reads Thai with a foreign accent, since the voice is designed around English. Thai narration wants Khanom Krok or Massaman.
- Does it hold up over a whole book?
- The register is built for length. The pace stays even across chapters, and the low level does not tire a listener the way a bright read does.
Hear it read your own words.
New accounts start with 100 free credits. Open the playground and this voice is already selected.