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Text-to-speech models in the Vapi Humanness · Bradley–Terry rating, 2026-09-25 snapshot model set

A leaderboard of the best text-to-speech models. Seed TTS 2.0 Standard is #1 right now, followed by Azure Neural TTS Xiaoxiao and Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTS. Models are ranked by one score that combines 101 published benchmarks. Filter by your computer or budget to find the best one you can use.

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1Seed TTS 2.0 Standard ByteDance Volcengine84±5*comparison onlyCN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1
2Azure Neural TTS Xiaoxiao Microsoft Azure74±4*comparison onlyCN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1
3Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTS Google72±3comparison onlyRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardInstructTTSEval: instruction-following TTS benchmark (arXiv:2506.16381v1)
4Voxtral TTS (4B) Mistral71±4†api $16.00/M chars +local~10GBdocs.mistral.ai ↗Voxtral TTS
5OpenAudio S1 Fish Audio71±8*†api $15.00/M charsdocs.fish.audio ↗Fish Audio S2 Technical Report
6Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview TTS Google69±3comparison onlyRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)InstructTTSEval: instruction-following TTS benchmark (arXiv:2506.16381v1)EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardMicrosoft VibeVoice own subjective evaluation figure
7Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus Alibaba69±2†api $20.00/M charswww.alibabacloud.com ↗Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical report
8Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview Google69±2api $50.00/M charsfal.ai ↗ZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)Building and Evaluating Fixed-Voice Thai TTS from Synthetic Speech (Wayu Research / Paxa Labs / Typhoon; arXiv:2609.03502v1)RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)nsanku TTS Benchmark (GhanaNLP community Space)ZTTS1-Eval results snapshot (Zyphra)Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24+1
9dots.tts MF 2B (MeanFlow, NFE 4) dots.tts68±3†local~5.2GBhow to run › dots.tts Technical Report
10Raon-OpenTTS-1B KRAFTON68±2†comparison onlyRaon-OpenTTS: Open Models and Data for Robust Text-to-Speech (arXiv:2605.20830v2)
11Grok TTS xAI68±3api $15.00/M charsdocs.x.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportArabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
12FireRedTTS3 (base) FireRedTeam (Xiaohongshu)67±3local~12GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication results
13Simba 3.2 Speechify67±3*api $6.00/M charsspeechify.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings
14dots.tts Base (Pretrain) 2B dots.tts67±2†comparison onlydots.tts Technical Report
15MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo MiniMax66±3*api $60.00/M charsplatform.minimax.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings
16LongCat-AudioDiT-3.5B Meituan66±2local~15GBhow to run › Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical reportmeituan-longcat/LongCat-AudioDiT-3.5B model card (Seed benchmark table)
17LongCat-AudioDiT-1B Meituan66±4†local~5.7GBhow to run › meituan-longcat/LongCat-AudioDiT-3.5B model card (Seed benchmark table)
18OmniVoice k2-fsa (Xiaomi)66±2local~3.3GBhow to run › OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models (arXiv:2604.00688v3)Building and Evaluating Fixed-Voice Thai TTS from Synthetic Speech (Wayu Research / Paxa Labs / Typhoon; arXiv:2609.03502v1)nineninesix/gepard-1.0 model card (Seed-TTS-eval benchmark table)Higgs Audio v3 comparison tables in SGLang-Omni cookbook (Boson AI contribution)nsanku TTS Benchmark (GhanaNLP community Space)Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
19MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD MiniMax66±2api $100.00/M charsplatform.minimax.io ↗Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical reportCN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1Preferences of a Voice-First Nation: pairwise human evaluation of TTS in 10 Indian languages (arXiv:2604.21481v2)
20dots.tts SOAR 2B dots.tts65±2local~5.2GBhow to run › Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical reportdots.tts Technical ReportRVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)
21Eleven v3 ElevenLabs65±1api $100.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical reportZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsVoxtral TTSThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)+2
22Chirp 3: HD Google65±4*api $30.00/M charscloud.google.com ↗CN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1
23Higgs Audio V3 TTS Boson AI65±3api $15.00/M chars +local~10GBdocs.boson.ai ↗Higgs Audio v3 comparison tables in SGLang-Omni cookbook (Boson AI contribution)RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
24Raon-OpenTTS-0.3B KRAFTON65±2†comparison onlyRaon-OpenTTS: Open Models and Data for Robust Text-to-Speech (arXiv:2605.20830v2)
25Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 1.7B Base Alibaba (Qwen)65±1local~4.5GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsRaon-OpenTTS: Open Models and Data for Robust Text-to-Speech (arXiv:2605.20830v2)Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical reportZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)Higgs Audio v3 comparison tables in SGLang-Omni cookbook (Boson AI contribution)Qwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base model card+3
26VoxCPM 0.5B OpenBMB64±1local~5GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsRaon-OpenTTS: Open Models and Data for Robust Text-to-Speech (arXiv:2605.20830v2)VoxCPM: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Context-Aware Speech Generation and True-to-Life Voice Cloning (arXiv:2509.24650v1)
27VoxCPM2 OpenBMB64±1local~2.3GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsQwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical reportZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)nineninesix/gepard-1.0 model card (Seed-TTS-eval benchmark table)ZTTS1-Eval results snapshot (Zyphra)Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
28Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512 Alibaba (FunAudioLLM)64±1local~5.4GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsRaon-OpenTTS: Open Models and Data for Robust Text-to-Speech (arXiv:2605.20830v2)Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS technical report
29Wayu-Paxa-TTS-Edge Wayu Research / Paxa Labs64±4†local~0.3GBhow to run › Building and Evaluating Fixed-Voice Thai TTS from Synthetic Speech (Wayu Research / Paxa Labs / Typhoon; arXiv:2609.03502v1)
30Eleven Turbo v2.5 ElevenLabs64±4*api $50.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
31Fish Audio S2.1 Pro Fish Audio63±3*api $15.00/M charsdocs.fish.audio ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings
32IndexTTS-2 IndexTeam (bilibili)63±1local~8.9GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsVoxCPM: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Context-Aware Speech Generation and True-to-Life Voice Cloning (arXiv:2509.24650v1)OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models (arXiv:2604.00688v3)Raon-OpenTTS: Open Models and Data for Robust Text-to-Speech (arXiv:2605.20830v2)Higgs Audio v3 comparison tables in SGLang-Omni cookbook (Boson AI contribution)An Evaluation Framework for TTS Voice Reconstruction (SAP dysarthric speakers; arXiv:2606.21343v1)+2
33MOSS-TTS v1.5 (8B) OpenMOSS63±2local~24GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsHiggs Audio v3 comparison tables in SGLang-Omni cookbook (Boson AI contribution)RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)SGLang-Omni serving cookbooks (SGLang-Omni team measurements)
34GLM-TTS Z.ai63±2local~8.9GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication results
35Sonic 3.5 Cartesia63±2comparison onlyZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
36MiniMax Speech-02-HD MiniMax63±3api $100.00/M charsplatform.minimax.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsEmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboard
37Fish Audio S2 Pro Fish Audio63±1api $15.00/M chars +local~11GBdocs.fish.audio ↗UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)nineninesix/gepard-1.0 model card (Seed-TTS-eval benchmark table)Higgs Audio v3 comparison tables in SGLang-Omni cookbook (Boson AI contribution)ZTTS1-Eval results snapshot (Zyphra)+3
38Eleven Flash v2.5 ElevenLabs63±2api $50.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsVoxtral TTSThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportRime Alpha TTS Benchmark v1.0.0 · SupportBench and ContentBench paired human preference
39IndexTTS (v1) IndexTeam (bilibili)62±3local~1.2GBhow to run › DiSTAR: Diffusion over a Scalable Token Autoregressive Representation for Speech Generation (arXiv:2510.12210v2)
40F5-TTS v1 Base SWivid (SJTU X-LANCE)62±3local~1.4GBhow to run › DiSTAR: Diffusion over a Scalable Token Autoregressive Representation for Speech Generation (arXiv:2510.12210v2)RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)
41Inworld TTS-1.5 Max Inworld62±3*api $10.00/M charsfal.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
42ZipVoice k2-fsa (Xiaomi)62±3local~0.2GBhow to run › OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models (arXiv:2604.00688v3)RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)
43Ghana TTS 72k GhanaNLP62±7*†comparison onlynsanku TTS Benchmark (GhanaNLP community Space)
44Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 0.6B Base Alibaba (Qwen)62±2local~2.5GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsQwen/Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base model cardSGLang-Omni serving cookbooks (SGLang-Omni team measurements)
45Eleven Flash v2 ElevenLabs62±3*api $50.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
46DMOSpeech 2 Columbia University / NewsBreak (Yinghao Aaron Li, Xilin Jiang et al.)62±4†local~4.3GBhow to run › DMOSpeech 2: Reinforcement Learning for Duration Prediction in Metric-Optimized Speech Synthesis (arXiv:2507.14988v1)
47Eleven Turbo v2 ElevenLabs61±3*api $50.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
48Inworld Realtime TTS-2 Inworld61±2api $25.00/M charsreplicate.com ↗ZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
49CosyVoice2-0.5B Alibaba (FunAudioLLM)61±1local~4.1GBhow to run › UltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsRaon-OpenTTS: Open Models and Data for Robust Text-to-Speech (arXiv:2605.20830v2)VoxCPM: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Context-Aware Speech Generation and True-to-Life Voice Cloning (arXiv:2509.24650v1)DMOSpeech 2: Reinforcement Learning for Duration Prediction in Metric-Optimized Speech Synthesis (arXiv:2507.14988v1)DiSTAR: Diffusion over a Scalable Token Autoregressive Representation for Speech Generation (arXiv:2510.12210v2)RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)+1
50E2 TTS Base (F5-TTS reproduction) SWivid (SJTU X-LANCE)60±2local~1.3GBhow to run › DiSTAR: Diffusion over a Scalable Token Autoregressive Representation for Speech Generation (arXiv:2510.12210v2)F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching (arXiv:2410.06885v1)TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)An Evaluation Framework for TTS Voice Reconstruction (SAP dysarthric speakers; arXiv:2606.21343v1)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)
51MiniMax Speech-02-Turbo MiniMax60±3*api $60.00/M charsplatform.minimax.io ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings
52TTS-1 OpenAI59±4api $15.00/M charsdevelopers.openai.com ↗RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
53MaskGCT Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)59±1local~6.6GBhow to run › Raon-OpenTTS: Open Models and Data for Robust Text-to-Speech (arXiv:2605.20830v2)VoxCPM: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Context-Aware Speech Generation and True-to-Life Voice Cloning (arXiv:2509.24650v1)OmniVoice: Towards Omnilingual Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Diffusion Language Models (arXiv:2604.00688v3)DMOSpeech 2: Reinforcement Learning for Duration Prediction in Metric-Optimized Speech Synthesis (arXiv:2507.14988v1)TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)Amphion MaskGCT README · zero-shot TTS results table+4
54MGM-Omni-TTS 2B (0927) MGM-Omni (CUHK)59±4comparison onlyUltraEval-Audio (OpenBMB) · TTS replication resultsRVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)
55CosyVoice v3 Plus Alibaba Cloud58±4*api $26.00/M charswww.alibabacloud.com ↗CN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1
56Octave TTS (Octave 1) Hume AI58±4api $50.00/M charswww.hume.ai ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardInstructTTSEval: instruction-following TTS benchmark (arXiv:2506.16381v1)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
57Sonic 3 Cartesia58±2api $65.00/M charswww.together.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production exportRime Alpha TTS Benchmark v1.0.0 · SupportBench and ContentBench paired human preferencePreferences of a Voice-First Nation: pairwise human evaluation of TTS in 10 Indian languages (arXiv:2604.21481v2)
58GPT-4o mini TTS OpenAI58±2comparison onlyRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)InstructTTSEval: instruction-following TTS benchmark (arXiv:2506.16381v1)Rime Alpha TTS Benchmark v1.0.0 · SupportBench and ContentBench paired human preferenceEmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardPreferences of a Voice-First Nation: pairwise human evaluation of TTS in 10 Indian languages (arXiv:2604.21481v2)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS+1
59Sonic 2 Cartesia58±3*comparison onlyThe Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
60F5-TTS Base (v0) SWivid (SJTU X-LANCE)57±2local~1.4GBhow to run › F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching (arXiv:2410.06885v1)TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)
61TTS-1 HD OpenAI57±7*api $30.00/M charsdevelopers.openai.com ↗RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
62Deepgram Aura 2 Deepgram57±3api $30.00/M charsdeepgram.com ↗Rime Alpha TTS Benchmark v1.0.0 · SupportBench and ContentBench paired human preferenceEmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
63ZONOS2 8B Zyphra57±2†local~5.2GBhow to run › ZONOS2 Technical Report (ZTTS1-Eval results)ZTTS1-Eval results snapshot (Zyphra)
64Supertonic 3 Supertone55±10*local~0.4GBhow to run › Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
65ElevenLabs v3 Alpha ElevenLabs55±9*comparison onlyMicrosoft VibeVoice own subjective evaluation figure
66Higgs Audio V2 Boson AI55±3local~7GBhow to run › Higgs Audio v3 comparison tables in SGLang-Omni cookbook (Boson AI contribution)EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardRVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)
67Fasih-TTS-V1 NightPrince (Yahya Elnawasany)55±10*local~1.9GBhow to run › Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
68CosyVoice-300M Alibaba (FunAudioLLM)54±3local~2.3GBhow to run › F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching (arXiv:2410.06885v1)VERSA toolkit paper: TTS demonstration (arXiv:2412.17667v2)Amphion MaskGCT README · zero-shot TTS results table
69Chatterbox Multilingual V3 Resemble AI54±10*local~3.2GBhow to run › Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
70VibeVoice 1.5B Microsoft53±6local~5.4GBhow to run › RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)Microsoft VibeVoice own subjective evaluation figure
71Lightning v3.1 Smallest.ai53±3*api $17.50/M charssmallest.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
72Gepard 1.0 nineninesix.ai53±4†comparison onlynineninesix/gepard-1.0 model card (Seed-TTS-eval benchmark table)
73Kokoro 82M v1.0 hexgrad52±3api $0.62/M chars +local~0.3GBdeepinfra.com ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardParadee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice TTS Model (arXiv:2610.06817v1), Table 3 small-model comparisoncarun/tts-bench: intelligibility benchmark of four open TTS engines (published run, 2026-09-10)RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
74LEMAS-TTS (w/ prosody, multilingual_prosody) LEMAS Project52±6*†local~1.5GBhow to run › LEMAS multilingual audio suite report
75Neuphonic neu_hq Neuphonic52±3*comparison onlyThe Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standings
76Spark-TTS 0.5B SparkAudio52±3local~2.9GBhow to run › DMOSpeech 2: Reinforcement Learning for Duration Prediction in Metric-Optimized Speech Synthesis (arXiv:2507.14988v1)RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)
77Llasa-8B HKUST Audio52±3local~20GBhow to run › DMOSpeech 2: Reinforcement Learning for Duration Prediction in Metric-Optimized Speech Synthesis (arXiv:2507.14988v1)Raon-OpenTTS: Open Models and Data for Robust Text-to-Speech (arXiv:2605.20830v2)
78Gradium TTS Gradium51±3*api $38.00/M charsdocs.gradium.ai ↗The Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
79OpenVoice V1 MyShell51±14*local~0.3GBhow to run › TTSDS v1 published results
80Eleven Multilingual v2 ElevenLabs51±5api $100.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardEmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
81Azure Ameha Neural Microsoft50±16*comparison onlyAddis AI Amharic TTS benchmark
82Azure Mekdes Neural Microsoft50±16*comparison onlyAddis AI Amharic TTS benchmark
83Addis Voice 2 Addis AI50±16*†comparison onlyAddis AI Amharic TTS benchmark
84LEMAS-TTS (w/o prosody, multilingual_grl) LEMAS Project50±6*†local~1.4GBhow to run › LEMAS multilingual audio suite report
85MMS TTS Amharic Meta50±16*local~0.2GBhow to run › Addis AI Amharic TTS benchmark
86Chatterbox Resemble AI50±5api $25.00/M chars +local~2.9GBreplicate.com ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardCodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)
87Parler-TTS Mini v0.1 Hugging Face (Parler-TTS)49±14*local~2.6GBhow to run › TTSDS v1 published results
88Fish Speech 1.2 Fish Audio49±14*local~1.2GBhow to run › TTSDS v1 published results
89SILMA TTS v1 SILMA AI48±10*local~2.7GBhow to run › Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
90FireRedTTS (v1) FireRedTeam (Xiaohongshu)48±3local~3.1GBhow to run › F5-TTS: A Fairytaler that Fakes Fluent and Faithful Speech with Flow Matching (arXiv:2410.06885v1)DiSTAR: Diffusion over a Scalable Token Autoregressive Representation for Speech Generation (arXiv:2510.12210v2)CodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)
91Vokan ShoukanLabs48±14*comparison onlyTTSDS v1 published results
92Orpheus TTS 3B 0.1 (finetune-prod) Canopy Labs47±5api $15.00/M chars +local~2.4GBdocs.together.ai ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardEmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
93Kyutai TTS 1.6B en/fr Kyutai47±5*local~4.1GBhow to run › EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboard
94MiMo v2.5 TTS Xiaomi MiMo47±4*comparison onlyCN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1
95Amphion VALL-E (LibriLight 6k) Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)47±14*local~1.6GBhow to run › TTSDS v1 published results
96Piper (en_US lessac medium) Open Home Foundation (Piper)47±5*local~0.1GBhow to run › Paradee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice TTS Model (arXiv:2610.06817v1), Table 3 small-model comparison
97Vevo (Amphion) Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)46±3local~6.8GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)An Evaluation Framework for TTS Voice Reconstruction (SAP dysarthric speakers; arXiv:2606.21343v1)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)CodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)
98Qwen3-TTS 12Hz 0.6B CustomVoice Alibaba (Qwen)46±6*comparison onlycarun/tts-bench: intelligibility benchmark of four open TTS engines (published run, 2026-09-10)
99Dia2 2B Nari Labs45±6*local~8.1GBhow to run › Audio Deepfake Detection in the Age of Advanced Text-to-Speech models (arXiv:2601.20510v1)
100Amazon Polly Neural Amazon Web Services45±4*api $16.00/M charsaws.amazon.com ↗CN-NewsTTS Bench v0.1
101KittenTTS Nano 0.8 KittenML44±5*comparison onlyParadee: Distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-Parameter Single-Voice TTS Model (arXiv:2610.06817v1), Table 3 small-model comparison
102GPT-SoVITS v2 RVC-Boss44±4local~1.1GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)
103MeloTTS English MyShell44±5local~0.7GBhow to run › VERSA toolkit paper: TTS demonstration (arXiv:2412.17667v2)Audio Deepfake Detection in the Age of Advanced Text-to-Speech models (arXiv:2601.20510v1)
104Parler-TTS Mini v1 Hugging Face (Parler-TTS)44±6*local~3.5GBhow to run › VERSA toolkit paper: TTS demonstration (arXiv:2412.17667v2)
105Sonic (1) Cartesia42±3*comparison onlyThe Humanness Index by Vapi · September 2026 public standingsThe Humanness Index by Vapi · June 2026 production export
106Nabra-82M v0.1 oddadmix42±10*local~0.3GBhow to run › Arabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24
107OpenAudio S1 Mini Fish Audio41±5api price unknown +local~1.7GBdocs.fish.audio ↗LEMAS multilingual audio suite reportArabic TTS Arena (Navid AI) · leaderboard snapshot 2026-09-24CodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)
108Fish Speech 1.5 Fish Audio41±3local~1.5GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)
109EMA Lightning EMA Lightning (canberkkkkkk)40±3*local~0GBhow to run › Antalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run tableEMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
110Antalia-2 Mini Patientdesk.ai40±4*†comparison onlyAntalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run table
111HierSpeech++ v1.1 Korea University (Sang-Hoon Lee et al.)39±3local~2.1GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)
112Trendyol-TTS Trendyol39±3*comparison onlyAntalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run tableEMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
113Magpie TTS Multilingual 357M NVIDIA39±6*local~0.7GBhow to run › carun/tts-bench: intelligibility benchmark of four open TTS engines (published run, 2026-09-10)
114Zonos v0.1 Zyphra39±4api price unknown +local~4.3GBzyphra.com ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardbalacoon speech_gen_baselines · zero-shot TTS metrics (VCTK, DAPS-celeb)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOS
115Maya1 Maya Research38±6*local~6.7GBhow to run › Audio Deepfake Detection in the Age of Advanced Text-to-Speech models (arXiv:2601.20510v1)
116Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS Google37±3*api price unknownai.google.dev ↗Antalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run tableEMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
117Pheme 300M PolyAI37±3local~3.6GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)TTSDS v1 published results
118VoiceCraft 830M TTSEnhanced Puyuan Peng et al. (UT Austin)37±8*local~4.5GBhow to run › Amphion MaskGCT README · zero-shot TTS results table
119Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS Google37±3*api price unknownai.google.dev ↗Antalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run tableEMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
120Eleven v4 ElevenLabs37±4*api $80.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗EMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
121Amphion VALL-E v2 recipe (MLS) Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)36±3local~2.9GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)VERSA toolkit paper: TTS demonstration (arXiv:2412.17667v2)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)TTSDS v1 published results
122NeuTTS Air Neuphonic36±10*local~4GBhow to run › CodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)
123Eleven v4 Turbo ElevenLabs36±4*api $40.00/M charselevenlabs.io ↗EMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
124VITS (VCTK multi-speaker) Kakao Enterprise (Jaehyeon Kim et al.)34±5local~0.2GBhow to run › VITS: ICML 2021 original listening studiesEmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboard
125Sesame CSM-1B Sesame34±5api $7.00/M chars +local~6.6GBdeepinfra.com ↗EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardbalacoon speech_gen_baselines · zero-shot TTS metrics (VCTK, DAPS-celeb)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOSRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)
126VoiceCraft 830M (giga830M) Puyuan Peng et al. (UT Austin)32±4†local~4.5GBhow to run › VoiceCraft: Zero-Shot Speech Editing and Text-to-Speech in the Wild (arXiv:2403.16973v3)
127VALL-E X (Plachtaa open implementation) Plachtaa (community)31±4local~1.6GBhow to run › VERSA toolkit paper: TTS demonstration (arXiv:2412.17667v2)ClonEval · Open Voice Cloning Leaderboard (AMU)CodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)
128OuteTTS 0.2 500M OuteAI31±6*local~0.9GBhow to run › ClonEval · Open Voice Cloning Leaderboard (AMU)
129Simple-TTS ASAPP Research (Justin Lovelace et al.)31±5*comparison onlyDiTTo-TTS: Diffusion Transformers for Scalable Text-to-Speech without Domain-Specific Factors (arXiv:2406.11427v2)
130StyleTTS 2 (LibriTTS) Yinghao Aaron Li et al. (Columbia University)30±2local~0.9GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)ZS-TTS-Evaluation (Edresson Casanova) · zero-shot TTS metrics of XTTS, YourTTS, TorToiSe and StyleTTS 2StyleTTS-ZS: Efficient High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Distilled Time-Varying Style Diffusion (arXiv:2409.10058v1)DiTTo-TTS: Diffusion Transformers for Scalable Text-to-Speech without Domain-Specific Factors (arXiv:2406.11427v2)An Evaluation Framework for TTS Voice Reconstruction (SAP dysarthric speakers; arXiv:2606.21343v1)RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)+2
131XTTS v2 Coqui30±2local~1.9GBhow to run › Antalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run tableVoiceCraft: Zero-Shot Speech Editing and Text-to-Speech in the Wild (arXiv:2403.16973v3)ZS-TTS-Evaluation (Edresson Casanova) · zero-shot TTS metrics of XTTS, YourTTS, TorToiSe and StyleTTS 2StyleTTS-ZS: Efficient High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Distilled Time-Varying Style Diffusion (arXiv:2409.10058v1)DiTTo-TTS: Diffusion Transformers for Scalable Text-to-Speech without Domain-Specific Factors (arXiv:2406.11427v2)ClonEval · Open Voice Cloning Leaderboard (AMU)+7
132Tortoise TTS v2 Tortoise29±2local~4.5GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)ZS-TTS-Evaluation (Edresson Casanova) · zero-shot TTS metrics of XTTS, YourTTS, TorToiSe and StyleTTS 2EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardAn Evaluation Framework for TTS Voice Reconstruction (SAP dysarthric speakers; arXiv:2606.21343v1)EmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOSCodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)+2
133Parler-TTS Large v1 Hugging Face (Parler-TTS)29±3local~9.3GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)InstructTTSEval: instruction-following TTS benchmark (arXiv:2506.16381v1)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)TTSDS v1 published results
134WhisperSpeech v1.95 Medium (7-language) Collabora28±3local~3.2GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)
135Glow-TTS + HiFi-GAN (VCTK, VITS study) VITS study (public implementations)28±6*comparison onlyVITS: ICML 2021 original listening studies
136HierSpeech++ (LibriTTS-960) Korea University (Sang-Hoon Lee et al.)28±5local~2.1GBhow to run › StyleTTS-ZS: Efficient High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Distilled Time-Varying Style Diffusion (arXiv:2409.10058v1)
137Piper (tr_TR dfki medium) Open Home Foundation (Piper)26±4*local~0.1GBhow to run › Antalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run table
138OpenVoice V2 MyShell26±3local~0.8GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)RVCBench: Benchmarking Robustness of Voice Cloning Across Modern Audio Generation Models (arXiv:2602.00443v2)TTSDS v1 published results
139Bark Suno25±3local~4.5GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)EmergentTTS-Eval six-category leaderboardEmergentTTS-Eval v1 paper (arXiv:2505.23009v1) · Table 1 automatic MOSTTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)TTSDS v1 published results
140SpeechT5 TTS Microsoft23±3local~0.7GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)
141MetaVoice 1B v0.1 MetaVoice20±3local~9.7GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)An Evaluation Framework for TTS Voice Reconstruction (SAP dysarthric speakers; arXiv:2606.21343v1)CodecMOS-Accent: listening-test MOS of zero-shot TTS across English accents (arXiv:2603.14328v1)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)TTSDS v1 published results
142Tacotron 2 + HiFi-GAN (VCTK, VITS study) VITS study (public implementations)19±6*comparison onlyVITS: ICML 2021 original listening studies
143YourTTS Coqui / Edresson Casanova et al.18±3local~0.4GBhow to run › VoiceCraft: Zero-Shot Speech Editing and Text-to-Speech in the Wild (arXiv:2403.16973v3)ZS-TTS-Evaluation (Edresson Casanova) · zero-shot TTS metrics of XTTS, YourTTS, TorToiSe and StyleTTS 2DiTTo-TTS: Diffusion Transformers for Scalable Text-to-Speech without Domain-Specific Factors (arXiv:2406.11427v2)
144MMS TTS Turkish Meta18±4*local~0.2GBhow to run › Antalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run table
145Antalia 1 Patientdesk.ai17±3*comparison onlyAntalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run tableEMA Lightning model card (canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning), Benchmarks: Freya-TR-Eval
146Amphion NaturalSpeech 2 (LibriTTS) Amphion (CUHK-Shenzhen)14±3local~1.7GBhow to run › TTSDS2 listening test results (ttsds/listening_test)VERSA toolkit paper: TTS demonstration (arXiv:2412.17667v2)TTSDS2 multilingual benchmark results (ttsds/leaderboard_data)TTSDS v1 published results
147Glow-TTS Common Voice (Turkish) Coqui TTS / Fatih Akademi11±4*local~4GBhow to run › Antalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run table
148FreyaTTS-small Freya Voice9±4*comparison onlyAntalia-2 Mini model card (cloud0day3/antalia-mini), public Freya-TR-Eval re-run table

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