AI voice models: OpenAI vs Google Gemini TTS
OpenAI is retiring its TTS models for realtime voice; Google doubled down on cheap TTS. GPT-Live 1, Realtime 2.1 and Gemini 3.8 TTS on twelve questions.
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AI voice models: ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo hold the top two arena spots. Cloning, languages, latency, prices, the new Realtime v1 and what users say.
Wildness 2/5 · Mostly tamedBlock's Dessa is a voice model trained only on recorded speech, with no text at all
Block says Dessa is full-duplex, learned from human conversation alone and runs on an M4 Max MacBook Pro. Safety researchers get early access first.
Wildness 4/5 · Still wildElevenLabs launches Eleven Realtime, two speech-to-speech models behind an OpenAI-compatible Realtime API
Eleven Realtime v1 Mini and v1 Max are single speech-to-speech models for voice agents, priced at $0.08 a minute plus LLM tokens.
Wildness 3/5 · Partly tamedAmazon Nova 2.5 Sonic is generally available in Bedrock
AWS says Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic is generally available in Bedrock in four Regions, at Nova 2 Sonic's price. The what's-new post says a 256K context. The Nova models page says up to 1M.
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