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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview is a closed-weights text-to-speech model from Google, released April 2026.

Catalogue identity notes

Exact model gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview; voice Kore. Dataset label Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS. No API immutable build/weight SHA supplied.

Model information sources

Release date ↗

68.5±1.9#4 of 118 text-to-speech modelsfrom 14 benchmark results across 7 sources

Score within the Vapi Humanness · Bradley–Terry rating, 2026-09-25 snapshot comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The text-to-speech models ranked either side of Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, out of 148 with a score, then more from Google.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
6Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview TTS Google69±3comparison only2025-05
7Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus Alibaba69±2api $20.00/M chars2026-09
8Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview Google69±2api $50.00/M chars2026-04
9dots.tts MF 2B (MeanFlow, NFE 4) dots.tts68±3local~5.2GB2026-06
10Raon-OpenTTS-1B KRAFTON68±2comparison only2026-05
more from Google
3Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTS Google72±3comparison only2025-05
22Chirp 3: HD Google65±4api $30.00/M chars2025-03
116Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS Google37±3api price unknown2026-09

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$ what it's good at

voice cloning▁·▁▁▁▁▁▁▇█▃▃ #23 of 37 * · 5.2% of its score · 1 test

Trails E2 TTS Base (F5-TTS reproduction), DMOSpeech 2, Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 0.6B Base here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
nsanku TTS Benchmark · 7 Ghanaian languages mean CER (GhanaNLP)20.0% ✎█··········▄ beats 0/2avg 46%▇▇ 5.2%small run
other tests13 not in a task · 93% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
ZTTS1-Eval in-the-wild · 10-language mean WER2.6% ✎▄·····█··▄██ beats 5/7avg 8.3%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 15%typical
ZTTS1-Eval Clean (FLEURS-R) · 9-language mean WER4.0% ✎▄·····▄█▄█·▄ beats 4/7avg 12%▇▇▇▇▇ 13%typical
ZTTS1-Eval in-the-wild · 10-language mean MSR-UTMOS3.51 / 5 ✎█··▄█▄····▄▄ beats 7/7hard · avg 2.00 / 5▇▇▇▇▇ 13%at its level
ZTTS1-Eval Clean (FLEURS-R) · 9-language mean MSR-UTMOS3.55 / 5 ✎▃▃█···▃···▃▃ beats 6/7medium · avg 2.52 / 5▇▇▇▇ 11%at its level
Wayu Thai TTS eval · 1,531-item Challenge-Set keyword accuracy79.8% ✎█···█······█ beats 2/2medium · avg 48%▇▇▇ 7.4%small run
Wayu Thai TTS eval · English CER on 500 held-out LibriTTS lines (Whisper Large V3)0.8% ✎█······█···█ beats 2/2avg 3.6%▇▇▇ 7.2%small run
RW-Voice-EQ TTS · Acting / Role-Fit (human)3.97 / 5 ✎▄·····█····▄ beats 3/3medium · avg 2.58 / 5▇▇▇ 6.8%at its level
Wayu Thai TTS eval · 500-utterance Thai CER (Typhoon Whisper Large V3)3.3% ✎█······█···█ beats 2/2avg 12%▇▇▇ 6.6%small run
5 more tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
ZTTS1-Eval · FLEURS-R English TTSDS2 prosody87.6% ✎█··███·····█ beats 3/4easy · avg 79%▇▇ 4.4%typical
RW-Voice-EQ TTS · Reliability (human)3.82 / 5 ✎█·▄······▄·▄ beats 3/4medium · avg 3.01 / 5▇▇ 4.3%at its level
RW-Voice-EQ TTS · Expressiveness (human)3.64 / 5 ✎███···█····█ beats 4/4medium · avg 2.87 / 5▇ 2.8%blunt · at its level
Arabic TTS Arena · community blind A/B rating, 2026-09-24 snapshot1147.5 ✎▂▂··▃·█▅···▃ beats 12/12avg 1018▇ 2.3%blunt
Amharic TTS · 87-prompt CER (Chirp 3 judge)2.9% ✎▄·····▄·▄·██ beats 6/6avg 8.7%▇ 0.0%blunt · noisy

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · fal.ai · $50.00/M chars · fal.ai ↗ · price sourceUSD per 1M input characters: fal prices its Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS endpoint (fal-ai/gemini-3.1-flash-tts; input schema: 'Input for Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS preview speech generation') at $0.05 per 1000 characters (x1000; endpoint billing record: billing_unit 1000 characters, partner API). Google's own Gemini API prices this model per token only, which is not converted. Product: fal text-to-speech endpoint (Google partner API). API model: fal-ai/gemini-3.1-flash-tts (Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS preview). Settings: standard. Price basis: published list rate, per-1K to per-1M scaling only. Currency: USD. fal.ai model page, observed 2026-09-25.

$ how the score was worked out · ZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS… 51%, Building and Evaluating Fixed… 21%, RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI) 14% and 4 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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