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billing report count of characters is wrong?

Posted on 04-09-2024 12:00 PM
ori0123
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Hi,

When I go to https://console.cloud.google.com/billing report text-to-speech, filtering by SKU and checking count of characters in each day.

The count is not matching my calculation in my server. In tts report it's 2.3M chars but in my server it's 1.6M chars.

Please help me how to make it more clear.

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JanR
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Hi,

Discrepancy on the GCP billing report for Text-to-Speech is higher than the report on the server, might be due to the GCP billing report for Text-to-Speech counts characters based on the number of characters sent to the service to be synthesized into audio. In GCP the total number of characters in the input string are counted for billing purposes, including spaces. All Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) tags except marks are also included in the character count.

Your server, on the other hand, might be counting characters differently, such as excluding spaces and Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) tags from the total character count.

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ori0123
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Thanks @JanR  , it indeed help me.

When I look at the month range, there is a 20M characters gap between my server and the GCP report. Except for SSML, which my server indeed does not count, the significant difference started after I switched from WaveNet(counted 20M) to Standard voices(counted 40M). Do you think it could be related to the gap?

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