Articles Tagged "Text-to-Speech"

Best Open-Source TTS Models for Self-Hosting in 2026

The best open-source text-to-speech models in 2026 - covering Kokoro, Chatterbox, Fish Speech, Dia, Voxtral, and Piper with real hardware requirements and licensing details.

Best AI Podcast Creation Tools 2026

A hands-on comparison of the top AI podcast creation tools in 2026 - covering recording, editing, voice cloning, and publishing for every budget.

Best AI Voice Agents in 2026 - 5 Platforms Tested

We tested five AI voice agent platforms - ElevenLabs, Vapi, Retell AI, Bland AI, and Play.ai - comparing real latency, per-minute pricing, and which use cases each actually serves.

Qwen3.5-Omni

Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni takes text, images, audio, and video as input and streams both text and speech output in a single end-to-end model with a 256K context window.

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS

Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS ships in preview with 30 voices, 70-plus languages, 200-plus inline audio tags, and Elo 1,211 on the Artificial Analysis TTS Arena.

Text-to-Speech API Pricing Compared - 2026

Normalized per-1M-character and per-hour TTS pricing across ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google, Azure, Amazon Polly, Play.ht, Cartesia, Deepgram Aura, WellSaid, and more.

Google Ships Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS With 200 Audio Tags

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.

Voxtral TTS Review: Mistral Takes On ElevenLabs

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 Ships Voxtral - Open-Weights Voice AI Platform

Mistral releases Voxtral, a pair of open-weights models covering speech recognition and text-to-speech that undercut OpenAI and ElevenLabs on price.

Best AI Models for Voice and Speech - March 2026

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.

AI Voice and Speech Leaderboard: TTS and STT Rankings

Rankings of the best text-to-speech and speech-to-text AI models by naturalness, accuracy, latency, and pricing.

Best AI Voice Generators in 2026 - From API-First to Open Source

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.