AssemblyAI Launches First TTS Model Entering Top 10 Voice Arena
AssemblyAI has released its first Text-to-Speech model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1, ranking #12 in Provider Voice and #10 in Controlled Voice benchmarks. The model demonstrates strong pronunciation robustness and offers a highly competitive pricing structure compared to top-tier rivals.
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Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) · 2026-10-28 16
AssemblyAI has launched its first Text to Speech model! AssemblyAI-TTS-1 enters the top 12 in our Provider Voice Arena and the top 10 in Controlled Voice
@AssemblyAI has launched its first Text to Speech model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1! We evaluated its performance across both Speech Arenas and our Pronunciation Robustness benchmark.
Key takeaways:
➤ Text to Speech, Provider Voice: AssemblyAI-TTS-1 scores an Elo of 1,227 across 1,626 arena appearances, ranking #12, just behind Breeze TTS 2 at 1,228 and ahead of Mistral's Voxtral 3 TTS at 1,221 and Inworld's Realtime TTS-2 Flash at 1,218. It ranks #12 in both English (US) and English (UK).
➤ Text to Speech, Controlled Voice: AssemblyAI-TTS-1 scores 1,110 across 1,674 appearances, ranking #10 with the same 8 cloned voices, behind Cartesia's Sonic 3.5 at 1,118 and ahead of Speechify's Simba 3.2 at 1,086. It ranks #6 in Knowledge Sharing.
➤ Pronunciation Robustness: AssemblyAI-TTS-1 scores 81.7% across 2,115 rated clips, ranking #16, behind HeyGen Voice at 83.2% and ahead of Inworld Realtime TTS-2 at 80.7%. It ranks #6 in Preserving Exact Sequences at 81.5%.
➤ Speed: AssemblyAI-TTS-1 generates 162 characters per second, faster than Cartesia's Sonic 3.6 at 148.6 and Mistral's Voxtral 3 TTS at 112.3.
➤ Pricing: AssemblyAI-TTS-1 is priced at $15/1M characters. Of the eleven models ranked above it on Provider Voice, only two cost less: Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS at 6.6/1M. Eleven v4 is 49/1M.
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