LLM Reference

Higgs Audio v3 TTS

Released
2026-06-04
Last refreshed
2026-06-05
Status
Researched today
Open WeightsNon-commercial only

Higgs Audio v3 TTS is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 8k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Released
2026-06-04
Context
8k
Parameters
4B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
text-to-speech
Openness
Open weights
License
NoncommercialNon-commercial only
Training
pretrained
Created by

Production-grade audio AI for voice agents.

Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
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Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 1 route · Boson AI API

About

Higgs Audio v3 TTS is Boson AI's 4B-parameter text-to-speech model released June 4, 2026. It supports 102 languages (85 at production quality with WER/CER <5%), zero-shot voice cloning, and inline control tokens for emotion (21 types), style (singing/shouting/whispering), sound effects, and prosody. Audio output is 24kHz MP3 or PCM. Open weights available under a non-commercial license; hosted API is in free public preview.

Higgs Audio v3 TTS is an open-weight model in the Higgs Audio family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window and audio. This page tracks provider routes through Boson AI API. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Higgs Audio v3 TTS yet.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Boson AI API--
ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

Audio

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

higgs-audio-v3-tts