LLM Reference

OpenAI TTS

Released
2023-11-06
Last refreshed
2026-06-07
Status
Researched 45d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalAudio

OpenAI TTS is available now for general LLM work; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Released
2023-11-06
Architecture
Audio / Speech
Specialization
text-to-speech
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
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Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

High-quality text-to-speech integrated into OpenAI API with multiple voice options and simple integration.

OpenAI TTS is a proprietary model in the OpenAI Text-to-Speech family. The structured metadata tracks audio. No headline benchmark score is tracked for OpenAI TTS yet.

Top use-case fit

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

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

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

openai-tts

Rankings & picks(1)

Frequently asked questions

When was OpenAI TTS released?

OpenAI TTS was released on 2023-11-06.