Text-to-Speech (TTS)

Suno's text-prompted generative audio model. Produces speech with nonverbal sounds like [laughs] and [sighs], plus music and sound effects, in 100+ speaker presets across 13 languages. Returns audio plus an optional .npz history file for voice continuity.

Resemble AI's production-grade open-source TTS with unique emotion exaggeration control and instant voice cloning from a short reference audio. MIT-licensed and benchmarked against leading closed-source systems.

Chatterbox open-source TTS in 23 languages with instant voice cloning and emotion exaggeration control. Max 300 characters per request.

Resemble AI's fastest open-source TTS without sacrificing quality. 20 pre-made voices, paralinguistic tags like [sigh] and [chuckle], and optional instant voice cloning from 5s+ reference audio. Max 500 characters per request.

ElevenLabs Eleven v4 text-to-speech via Fal.AI. Expressive speech with inline audio tags ([whispering], [excited]), IPA pronunciation, stability/similarity controls, up to 5,000 characters per request and optional character-level timestamps.

ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo text-to-speech via Fal.AI. The Turbo tier of Eleven v4 at half the rate, with the same audio tags, IPA pronunciation, voice controls and optional character-level timestamps.

Google Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS via Fal.AI. Expressive single-speaker narration with 30 prebuilt voices, delivery directions given as separate style instructions, and inline vocal events such as <laugh> and <sigh>. Returns WAV audio.

Google Gemini 3.1 Flash native-audio TTS via Replicate. Style instructions (separate from the spoken text) plus 30 preset voices and 40+ language/locale codes, with inline markup tags for expressive delivery ([sigh], [whispering], [shouting], etc.).

Alibaba's unified TTS with three modes: preset speakers (custom_voice), instant voice cloning from reference audio (voice_clone), and creating a brand-new voice from a text description (voice_design).

Inworld's most expressive TTS with natural-language steering — place bracketed instructions like [speak quickly] before the text they apply to. Real-time latency and 15+ language support.

Fish Audio's current production TTS: 83 languages, bracketed natural-language emotion and tone control, 1M+ Voice Library voices and voice cloning. 61% listening-test win rate over S2 Pro with ~70 ms time-to-first-audio upstream. Billed per UTF-8 byte.

Fish Audio S2-generation TTS: 80+ languages, bracketed natural-language emotion and tone tags, Voice Library voices. Same price as S2.1 Pro; kept for pipelines tuned on S2. Billed per UTF-8 byte.

Fish Audio S1 (legacy) TTS with the fixed parenthesis emotion tag set — (happy), (sad), (whispering) — and Voice Library voices. Same price as the S2 family; for prompts written against S1. Billed per UTF-8 byte.

Ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis Speech Arena and Hugging Face TTS Arena. Broadcast-quality TTS with autoregressive Transformer + Flow-VAE decoder, 32+ languages, voice cloning, natural interjections, and emotion control.

Low-latency MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo with under 250ms latency, 40+ languages, voice cloning, natural interjections, and real-time pricing. Ideal for interactive and real-time applications.

Studio-quality multilingual text-to-speech with nuanced prosody, emotion control, and premium voices for professional applications.

Fast multilingual text-to-speech with emotional control, optimized for real-time applications with low latency.

Low-latency text-to-speech model with multilingual support, emotional voice control, and 300+ voice options.

Inworld's highest-quality realtime TTS with under 200ms latency. Supports SSML break tags for pauses, emotion markups like [happy], and 15 languages.

NAVER Clova Voice Premium TTS with 108 voices across 6 languages. High-quality Korean voice synthesis with emotion control, Pro voices, and bilingual support.

High-quality, low-latency ElevenLabs text-to-speech in 32 languages. The same 26 premium voices as v3 at half the price, optimized for real-time and high-volume use.

ElevenLabs' most expressive text-to-speech model. 26 premium voices, inline audio tags like [laughs] and [whispers], fine-grained style and stability controls, and 70+ language support.

ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 text-to-speech in over 30 languages. Stable, proven voice quality with the same premium voice lineup and fine-grained voice settings.

Sonilo v1.1 video-to-sound-effects via Fal.AI. Adds AI-generated sound (ambience, effects, foley) to an input video — auto-captions the scene if no prompt is given, or accepts per-segment sound descriptions for finer control.

Clone any voice from a 10-second to 5-minute audio sample. Returns a custom voice_id you can pass to MiniMax speech models, plus a preview clip synthesized with the cloned voice.

Coqui XTTS-v2 multilingual voice-cloning TTS. Clone a voice from a single short audio sample and speak in 16 languages — one of the most popular open-source voice cloning models.