@gkxspace: I spend two to three thousand on AI subscriptions every month, some for TTS, ASR, etc. The mainstream ones are expensive and their API protocols differ. I kept thinking: is there a single plan that covers voice cloning, meeting transcription, AI podcast generation, real-time voice Q&A, voice input, and coding? Finally found a godsend—StepFun's S...

I used to spend two to three thousand yuan a month on AI subscriptions, some of which were for TTS, ASR, etc. The mainstream services are quite expensive, and their API protocols are all different.

I’ve always been looking for a single plan that could do it all: voice cloning, meeting transcription, AI podcast generation, real-time voice Q&A, voice input, and code writing.

Finally found a true lifesaver — Step Plan by StepFun. It costs $6.99 per month and I can never use it all up. So I gradually canceled all the others.

One subscription gets you access to top-tier models of all kinds:

1. LLM: Step 3.5 Flash — incredibly low latency, and you can also integrate it with Claude / Cursor / Cline.
2. TTS: stepaudio-2.5-tts (I checked; its ranking is higher than ElevenLabs).
3. ASR: Real-time voice conversations with voice cloning support.
4. Image generation: Text-to-image + image editing, generating images in 0.7 seconds.

All accessible directly via the OpenAI SDK — just change the base URL.

Here are some use cases (details in the comments):

1. English audio recording → Chinese notes in 54 seconds
2. Long English article → dual‑speaker MP3 for commuting
3. Same text → TTS with 7 different emotions
4. Lu Xun’s Kong Yiji → automatic role‑based audiobook
5. English podcast → end-to-end Chinese remake

@StepFun_ai