# A VOICE GATE (ボイスゲート) alternative without character limits Updated 2026-10-31 VOICE GATE (ボイスゲート) is a Japanese AI text to speech service made by the video production company VIDWEB. You type text, pick a voice and download the audio, and it allows commercial use. According to its FAQ in October 2026, without an account you get 400 characters a month, reset on the 1st; members get more. This guide compares VOICE GATE with SuperClonica honestly: when the service is the right choice, and when an offline engine without a character limit fits better. ## What VOICE GATE does well It runs in the browser, speaks several languages and is built for business narration: videos, facility announcements, phone menus, apps and slides. SSML-style tags let you add a pause of a set length, stress a phrase or change the speed, pitch and volume of part of a sentence. Its FAQ says the text you enter and the files you download are not stored. ## The rules to know The free plan needs a credit, and it must be on your own website, such as a news page, even when the audio is used offline in a building or on the phone; if you cannot credit it properly, you cannot use the service. The paid top-quality plan needs no credit. Registration is verified by a corporate number, and the FAQ asks people not to use it for hobbies or personal study. There is also a limit of 30,000 characters per hour. ## No character limit offline The SuperClonica engine runs the Supertonic 3 model on your own computer, on an ordinary processor, in 31 languages including Japanese. There is no monthly quota and no account, and the text never leaves your machine. Install it with python -m pip install superclonica-cpu and run superclonica --text-file script.txt --voice F2 --lang en --output narration.mp3. The ten stock voices are free and may be used commercially. ## Character voices and your own voice Every catalog voice reads every supported language, so narrators, announcers and anime or game characters can read your text. Each is a small file bought once. Any voice page reads a line of 30 to 100 characters free, with no account. You can also train your own voice in the studio from a 5 to 10 second recording. ## Which to choose Choose VOICE GATE for business narration in the browser with fine control over pauses and emphasis, if you can credit it on a website or pay for the plan. Choose SuperClonica for long texts with no limit, for personal listening and study, for character voices, or to build speech into an app with its API, which has a free tier of 3 minutes a day. ## More guides - [An Ondoku3 (Ondoku-san) alternative without character limits](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/ondoku3-alternative) - [A TTSFree alternative without a monthly character limit](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/ttsfree-alternative) - [A TTSMaker alternative without limits, offline](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/ttsmaker-alternative) - [An Uberduck alternative for text to speech](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/uberduck-alternative) - [A Voicebox alternative, and when you need one](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/voicebox-alternative) - [An AllTalk TTS alternative for Mac and plain CPUs](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/alltalk-tts-alternative) - [A LuvVoice alternative without a monthly character cap](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/luvvoice-alternative) - [A Voicemaker alternative that runs offline, with no credits](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/voicemaker-alternative) - [Rask AI alternative: dub videos without per-minute limits](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/rask-ai-alternative) - [Gemini TTS alternative: an offline voice engine you run yourself](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/gemini-tts-alternative) - [Yukkuri voice alternative: AquesTalk, licenses and natural voices](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/yukkuri-voice-alternative) - [AivisSpeech alternative: when you need more than Japanese](https://superclonica.com/en/guides/aivisspeech-alternative) ## Text to speech and comparisons - [Text-to-speech that runs on your own computer](https://superclonica.com/en/text-to-speech) - [Supertonic vs SuperClonica: same model, faster and cleaner](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/supertonic) - [Fish Audio and Fish Speech vs SuperClonica](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/fish-audio) - [OmniVoice vs SuperClonica: more languages or more speed](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/omnivoice) - [Qwen3-TTS vs SuperClonica for local text-to-speech](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/qwen3-tts) - [VoxCPM 2 vs SuperClonica: studio sound or CPU speed](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/voxcpm) - [F5-TTS vs SuperClonica: zero-shot cloning or fast CPU speech](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/f5-tts) - [An offline alternative to ElevenLabs](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/elevenlabs) - [Kokoro TTS vs SuperClonica: two small models for local speech](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/kokoro) - [Piper TTS vs SuperClonica: tiny devices or custom voices](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/piper) - [Coqui XTTS-v2 vs SuperClonica: a Coqui TTS alternative](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/xtts) - [Chatterbox TTS vs SuperClonica: instant cloning or a trained voice file](https://superclonica.com/en/compare/chatterbox) ## Frequently asked questions ### Is VOICE GATE free? Yes, with limits: 400 characters a month without registration, more for members. The free plan needs a credit on your website. ### Can I use VOICE GATE for personal study? Its FAQ asks users not to use it for hobbies or personal study; it is meant for creative and business use. SuperClonica can be used for personal listening. ### Does SuperClonica read Japanese? Yes. Japanese is one of the 31 languages of Supertonic 3, and every catalog voice can read it. ### Does SuperClonica have a character limit? Not offline: the engine runs on your computer with no quota. The online demo on voice pages takes 30 to 100 characters. - [Browse announcer voices](https://superclonica.com/en/voices/announcers) - [Install the SuperClonica engine](https://superclonica.com/en/superclonica) ## Sources - [VOICE GATE FAQ (VIDWEB)](https://vidweb.co.jp/voicegate/faq/) - [SuperClonica engine on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/superclonica-cpu/) - [SuperClonica](https://superclonica.com/en/) - [AI voice catalog for text to speech](https://superclonica.com/en/explore) - [Text to Speech API: free key, plans from $5](https://superclonica.com/en/speech-api) - [Custom voice commissions for Supertonic 3](https://superclonica.com/en/requests) - [How it works: voices, local speech, training](https://superclonica.com/en/guide) - [Install the faster Supertonic 3 engine](https://superclonica.com/en/superclonica) - [About us: speech synthesis enthusiasts](https://superclonica.com/en/about) - [Contacts, support and voice complaints](https://superclonica.com/en/contacts) - [Privacy policy: what data we keep](https://superclonica.com/en/privacy) - [Terms of use: rules for buyers and authors](https://superclonica.com/en/terms) - [Text to speech](https://superclonica.com/en/text-to-speech)