Oddcast

Oddcast is a New York-based creative media technology company that builds speaking-character, avatar, and text-to-speech products for agencies, brands, business, and education. For developers it operates two API-driven products: Vocalware, a pay-as-you-go cloud text-to-speech service exposed as an HTTP/REST API and a JavaScript/HTML5 API with hundreds of voices across more than thirty languages; and SitePal, an AI avatar platform whose speaking characters are embedded and controlled at runtime through a JavaScript (VHost) API for speech, facial expression, background, and AI-assistant integration. Both products are self-service with free trials, per-stream/per-download pricing, and published developer references.

Oddcast publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Text-to-Speech, Speech Synthesis, Avatars, and Voice.

Oddcast’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, pricing, signup flow, authentication, and 9 more developer resources.

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28.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 10/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
2 APIs
CompanyText-to-SpeechSpeech SynthesisAvatarsVoiceMediaCreative TechnologyEducationDevelopers

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 28.2/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 10/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Vocalware Text-to-Speech API

Vocalware is Oddcast's cloud text-to-speech service. It exposes a pay-as-you-go HTTP/REST API (suitable for mobile and server-side/standalone apps) and a JavaScript/HTML5 API (f...

SitePal Avatar API

SitePal is Oddcast's AI avatar platform. Speaking characters are embedded on a web page or app and controlled at runtime through a JavaScript (VHost) API with methods such as sa...

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Oddcast Authentication

apiKey/checksum · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Oddcast Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 Components
Components

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: oddcast
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/oddcast.png
name: Oddcast
description: 'Oddcast is a New York-based creative media technology company that builds speaking-character, avatar, and text-to-speech
  products for agencies, brands, business, and education. For developers it operates two API-driven products: Vocalware, a
  pay-as-you-go cloud text-to-speech service exposed as an HTTP/REST API and a JavaScript/HTML5 API with hundreds of voices
  across more than thirty languages; and SitePal, an AI avatar platform whose speaking characters are embedded and controlled
  at runtime through a JavaScript (VHost) API for speech, facial expression, background, and AI-assistant integration. Both
  products are self-service with free trials, per-stream/per-download pricing, and published developer references.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/oddcast/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- union-square-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Text-to-Speech
- Speech Synthesis
- Avatars
- Voice
- Media
- Creative Technology
- Education
- Developers
apis:
- name: Vocalware Text-to-Speech API
  description: Vocalware is Oddcast's cloud text-to-speech service. It exposes a pay-as-you-go HTTP/REST API (suitable for
    mobile and server-side/standalone apps) and a JavaScript/HTML5 API (for in-browser playback), offering hundreds of voices
    in over thirty languages. Requests are authenticated with an account id and API key plus a per-request checksum; audio
    is returned as a playable stream (a stream is one playback instance up to 60 seconds).
  humanURL: https://www.vocalware.com
  baseURL: https://www.vocalware.com
  tags:
  - Text-to-Speech
  - Speech Synthesis
  - Voice
  - Audio
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.vocalware.com/support/javascript
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.vocalware.com/support/reference
  - type: Support
    url: https://www.vocalware.com/support/support
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.vocalware.com/index/pricing
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://www.vocalware.com/auth/signup
  - type: Login
    url: https://www.vocalware.com/auth/signin
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/oddcast-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/oddcast-conventions.yml
- name: SitePal Avatar API
  description: SitePal is Oddcast's AI avatar platform. Speaking characters are embedded on a web page or app and controlled
    at runtime through a JavaScript (VHost) API with methods such as sayText, sayAudio, sayAI, stopSpeech, setStatus, setFacialExpression,
    and setBackground, plus AI-assistant integration and text-to-speech. Delivered as an embeddable client-side component
    rather than a server-side REST API.
  humanURL: https://www.sitepal.com
  baseURL: https://www.sitepal.com
  tags:
  - Avatars
  - Text-to-Speech
  - JavaScript
  - Embeddable
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.sitepal.com/guide
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.sitepal.com/guide
  - type: Support
    url: https://www.sitepal.com/support
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.sitepal.com/pricing
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://www.sitepal.com/pricing
  - type: Login
    url: https://vhost.oddcast.com/admin/index.php
  - type: Components
    url: components/oddcast-components.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://oddcast.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.vocalware.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.vocalware.com/support/javascript
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.vocalware.com/support/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.sitepal.com/guide
- type: Support
  url: https://www.vocalware.com/support/support
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.vocalware.com/index/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.vocalware.com/auth/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://www.vocalware.com/auth/signin
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.oddcast.com/term-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.oddcast.com/privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/oddcast-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/oddcast-conventions.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/oddcast-components.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/oddcast-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/oddcast-domain-security.yml