#text-to-speech

Mistral's Voice Agents SDK runs transcription, a text model and speech as one managed pipeline at $0.04 or $0.08 a minute. Browser vs phone, tools and costs.

Mistral's Voxtral 3 is four separate speech models in Public Preview. What each does, what it costs per minute or character, and what preview leaves unsettled.

OpenAI now creates a custom voice from a text description for free. Where prompt-made voices work, the 100-voice limit and what it costs to use one.

Fish Audio's Drama 3 takes stage directions in brackets, edits single lines in place and ships open weights. Price, licence limits and who it suits.

Compare voice AI billing without mixing characters, tokens and minutes. Build a useful workload estimate that includes retries, silence and accepted audio.

ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 tops Artificial Analysis' voice arena and v4 Turbo claims ~100ms. The two latency figures, the vendor tests and the v4 price.

One model catalog lists 180 AI routes that output images, video, speech or other non-text results. Counts by type, every video route, and the price gaps.

92 text-to-speech models ranked by blind listener vote, with the price per million characters, open-weight licences and the job each leader fits.

Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus tops the Artificial Analysis TTS arena (~1,236 Elo) at ~$27.59/1M chars, a third of ElevenLabs — but it is hosted-only, no weights.

TTS now costs cents per post, so the real question is whether readers use a listen button. A 2026 decision matrix on blog audio, with the evidence.

Mistral releases Voxtral TTS, a 4B parameter open-source text-to-speech model. Apache 2.0, 9 languages, custom voice from 5-second sample, 90ms latency.

Google announces Gemini TTS models as part of the 3.1 suite. Flash and Pro variants for AI voice generation, content creation, and accessibility applications.