Google's new Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS hits Elo 1,211 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard and introduces 200-plus audio tags for mid-sentence voice control, available in preview today via the Gemini API.
Mistral's first open-weights TTS model clones voices from 3 seconds of audio, beats ElevenLabs on price, and arrives with real limitations worth knowing.
Mistral releases Voxtral, a pair of open-weights models covering speech recognition and text-to-speech that undercut OpenAI and ElevenLabs on price.
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 leads speech-to-text at 2.3% WER while ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 sets the pace for TTS with 75ms latency - but Google and Mistral are closing in fast.
Rankings of the best text-to-speech and speech-to-text AI models by naturalness, accuracy, latency, and pricing.
A data-driven comparison of the top AI voice generators and TTS tools in 2026, covering ElevenLabs, Fish Audio, OpenAI TTS, LMNT, Cartesia, and open-source alternatives.
