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1239 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Text-to-speech arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 31, 2026

Best voice
Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSGoogle1,214Score
Best open model
Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio1,123Score
Best from China
Fun-Realtime-TTS-PreviewAlibaba1,193Score
Top three by Score
3Sonic 3.5Cartesia1,203
Top three open models
1Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio · #17 overall1,123
2Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)StepFun · #21 overall1,111
3Voxtral TTSMistral · #35 overall1,067
This week's changes
qwen3.7-max-20260517Coding · #3New
xAI Text to SpeechSpeech · #5New
Fun-Realtime-TTS-PreviewSpeech · #6New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1▲ 1Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,214±14
2▲ 6Realtime TTS-2 - Research PreviewClosedInworld1,209±14
3▼ 2Sonic 3.5ClosedCartesia1,203±15
4▼ 1Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxClosedInworld1,195±14
5NewxAI Text to SpeechClosedxAI1,194±15
6NewFun-Realtime-TTS-PreviewClosedAlibaba1,193±15
7▼ 3StepAudio 2.5 TTSClosedStepFun1,184±15
8▼ 3Eleven v3ClosedElevenLabs1,179±12
9▼ 3Speech 2.8 HDClosedMiniMax1,167±12
10▼ 3Inworld TTS 1 MaxClosedInworld1,160±13
11▼ 2Realtime TTS 1.5 MiniClosedInworld1,151±12
12▼ 2Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)ClosedStepFun1,142±14
13▼ 1Speech 2.6 TurboClosedMiniMax1,139±11
14▼ 3Speech 2.8 TurboClosedMiniMax1,138±11
15▼ 1SIMBA 3.0ClosedSpeechify1,133±13
16▼ 3Speech 2.6 HDClosedMiniMax1,133±11
17—Azure HD 2.5ClosedMicrosoft1,121±14
18▼ 3Inworld TTS 1ClosedInworld1,117±12
19▼ 3Speech-02-HDClosedMiniMax1,112±11
20▼ 2Multilingual v2ClosedElevenLabs1,108±10
21▼ 2Turbo v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,105±10
22▲ 12Gradium TTSClosedGradium1,096±15
23—Flash v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,096±10
24▼ 4TTS-1 HDClosedOpenAI1,095±12
25▼ 1Speech-02-TurboClosedMiniMax1,094±11
26▼ 4TTS-1ClosedOpenAI1,092±10
27▼ 1Sonic 3ClosedCartesia1,085±12
28NewLightning V3.1 ProClosedSmallest.ai1,085±14
29▼ 4MiMo-V2.5-TTSClosedXiaomi1,081±14
30▼ 2Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,080±12
31▼ 4StudioClosedGoogle1,077±11
32▼ 2Polly GenerativeClosedAmazon1,069±11
33▲ 3Polly Long-FormClosedAmazon1,065±13
34▼ 3SIMBA 1.6ClosedSpeechify1,065±13
35▼ 3Azure NeuralClosedMicrosoft1,063±11
36▼ 7T2A-01-HDClosedMiniMax1,062±11
37NewAsync Flash v1.0ClosedAsync1,061±11
38▼ 5OpenAudio S1ClosedFish Audio1,059±11
39—Chirp 3: HDClosedGoogle1,056±12
40▼ 2Octave 2ClosedHume AI1,054±12
41▼ 4Sonic English (Oct 2024)ClosedCartesia1,052±11
42▼ 2JourneyClosedGoogle1,046±13
43▼ 2Lightning v3.1ClosedSmallest.ai1,038±13
44—SIMBA 1.0ClosedSpeechify1,036±11
45—Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,033±13
46▼ 4Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,032±12
47—CodaClosedRime1,032±14
48▼ 5Octave TTSClosedHume AI1,028±11
49▼ 3Chatterbox HDClosedResemble AI1,027±11
50▼ 2T2A-01-TurboClosedMiniMax1,026±11

Intelligence over time

Each maker's best model at the time on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, by the month it was released.

Gained most · Anthropic +57.2Highest now · Anthropic 64.6Gap between highest and lowest 18.1 ptsTime range Nov 2025 – Nov 2026
64.6Anthropic60.0Google56.9OpenAI50.1Meta46.5Kimi

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