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The voice (tts) leaderboard · for creatives

Best for voice (tts)

4 editor picks · 6 eligible models · Synthetic voices you'd actually ship.

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ElevenLabs

Elevenlabs
Excellent

Voices you'd actually ship without a second pass.

Most expressive voices with the lowest artifact rate — the studio standard for production VO.

The numbers
Pricing
see model page
Context
tts
Pros
  • +Most expressive & natural
  • +Huge voice library + cloning
  • +Low artifacts
Cons
  • Priciest per character

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The runners-up

ranked by editorial pick order
Editorial tiersExcellentStrongSolid
#ModelTierPricingEditor's note
#2
OpenAI TTS
OpenAI
Cheapest credible TTS; voices are a touch flatter but ship fine for apps.
#3
Aura-2 EN
Deepgram
Low-latency conversational voice tuned for real-time voice agents.
#4
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Google
Broadest language and locale coverage for non-English-first products.

Eligibility

6 models are eligible for this board

Eligibility means tagged with useCases: [tts]. Pins must come from this pool.

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