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OpenAI ProprietaryNov 2023

OpenAI TTS (HD)

Cheap, natural-sounding TTS bundled with the OpenAI API.

Intelligence index
Composite of MMLU, GPQA, MATH & HumanEval
Speed
Median across providers, steady state
Price per 1k characters
$0.030

At a glance

Time to first token
0.5s
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
audio
License
Proprietary
Provider
OpenAI
Strengths
  • Cheap
  • Easy to integrate
  • 6 preset voices
Weaknesses
  • No voice cloning
  • Less expressive
Best for
  • App-internal TTS
  • Audio summaries

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OpenAI TTS (HD) — frequently asked questions

OpenAI TTS (HD) is a text-to-speech model from OpenAI, released on 6 November 2023. Cheap, natural-sounding TTS bundled with the OpenAI API.

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