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1190 models · 5 boards · 2 sources

Text-to-speech arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated May 3, 2026

Best voice
Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxInworld1,208Score
Best open model
Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio1,124Score
Best from China
Speech 2.8 HDMiniMax1,164Score
Top three by Score
1Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxInworld1,208
3Eleven v3ElevenLabs1,177
Top three open models
1Fish Audio S2 ProFish Audio · #11 overall1,124
2Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)StepFun · #16 overall1,101
3Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)NVIDIA · #26 overall1,063
This week's changes
Grok 4.3Intelligence · #8New
mimo-v2.5-proCoding · #9New
gpt-5.5 (codex-harness)Coding · #15New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—Realtime TTS 1.5 MaxClosedInworld1,208±18
2—Gemini 3.1 Flash TTSClosedGoogle1,203±18
3—Eleven v3ClosedElevenLabs1,177±12
4—Inworld TTS 1 MaxClosedInworld1,166±18
5—Speech 2.8 HDClosedMiniMax1,164±12
6—Realtime TTS 1.5 MiniClosedInworld1,159±16
7—Step TTS 2 (Mar 2026)ClosedStepFun1,149±20
8—Speech 2.8 TurboClosedMiniMax1,146±12
9—Speech 2.6 HDClosedMiniMax1,133±12
10—Speech 2.6 TurboClosedMiniMax1,128±11
11—Fish Audio S2 ProOpenFish Audio1,124±21
12—Azure HD 2.5ClosedMicrosoft1,122±21
13—Speech-02-HDClosedMiniMax1,117±11
14—Inworld TTS 1ClosedInworld1,114±16
15—Multilingual v2ClosedElevenLabs1,106±8
16—Step Audio EditX (Mar 2026)OpenStepFun1,101±22
17▲ 1TTS-1ClosedOpenAI1,100±8
18▼ 1Speech-02-TurboClosedMiniMax1,098±12
19—Turbo v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,097±8
20—TTS-1 HDClosedOpenAI1,097±12
21—Flash v2.5ClosedElevenLabs1,085±9
22NewGradium TTSClosedGradium1,084±53
23▼ 1Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite TTSClosedGoogle1,079±14
24—Sonic 3ClosedCartesia1,068±13
25—OpenAudio S1ClosedFish Audio1,063±11
26▼ 3Magpie-Multilingual 357M (Feb 2026)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant1,063±21
27▼ 1SIMBA 1.6ClosedSpeechify1,061±20
28▼ 1StudioClosedGoogle1,060±10
29▼ 1T2A-01-HDClosedMiniMax1,057±10
30▼ 1Kokoro 82M v1.0OpenKokoro1,055±9
31▼ 1Polly GenerativeClosedAmazon1,055±11
32▲ 1Voxtral TTSOpenMistral1,052±21
33▼ 2AsyncFlow V2, asyncClosedAsync1,052±11
34▼ 2Maya1OpenMaya Research1,050±13
35▼ 1Azure NeuralClosedMicrosoft1,047±8
36▼ 1Sonic English (Oct 2024)ClosedCartesia1,045±12
37▼ 1Octave 2ClosedHume AI1,042±14
38—Chirp 3: HDClosedGoogle1,040±13
39▲ 7Lightning v3.1ClosedSmallest.ai1,039±21
40▼ 3Polly Long-FormClosedAmazon1,038±19
41▼ 2Chatterbox HDClosedResemble AI1,034±10
42▼ 1JourneyClosedGoogle1,029±18
43▼ 3Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,028±15
44▼ 2SIMBA 1.0ClosedSpeechify1,024±10
45▼ 2Gemini 2.5 Pro (Dec 2025)ClosedGoogle1,022±16
46▼ 1T2A-01-TurboClosedMiniMax1,018±10
47—MAI-Voice-1ClosedMicrosoft1,018±21
48—Octave TTSClosedHume AI1,017±10
49▼ 5MiMo-V2-TTSClosedXiaomi1,013±20
50▼ 1Fish Speech 1.5OpenFish Audio1,012±10

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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