https://texttospeech.com/blog Monthly text-to-speech rankings, weekly movers & shakers, and methodology deep-dives from the TTS meta-leaderboard — the best and cheapest TTS APIs, tracked weekly. en Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://texttospeech.com/blog/gemini-3-1-flash-tts-review Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS lands mid-table on Artificial Analysis and delivers strong short-form output at a low price, but a confirmed long-form voice-drift defect and no voice cloning cap its usefulness. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://texttospeech.com/blog/gemini-3-1-flash-tts-review https://texttospeech.com/blog/eleven-v3-review Eleven v3 still tops Vapi's Humanness Index at 97/100 and leads on expressiveness, but 758ms latency and a year of Elo decay have made it a pre-rendered niche pick in 2026. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://texttospeech.com/blog/eleven-v3-review https://texttospeech.com/blog/new-tts-models-august-2026 Six new TTS models hit the leaderboard in August 2026. Only Cartesia's Sonic 3.6 topped both boards. Here's every arrival, its Elo, and its price. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://texttospeech.com/blog/new-tts-models-august-2026 https://texttospeech.com/blog/2026-08-13 The inaugural TTS meta-leaderboard snapshot. Here's where the board stands as of August 2026. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://texttospeech.com/blog/2026-08-13 https://texttospeech.com/blog/we-are-live We aggregate three public TTS leaderboards into one score. Bayesian rank aggregation, weekly refreshes, and weekly movers & shakers posts for builders picking a TTS model. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://texttospeech.com/blog/we-are-live https://texttospeech.com/blog/our-methodology Bayesian pairwise rank aggregation explained. How we combine three public TTS leaderboards into one trustworthy ranking using fractional scaling, coverage smoothing, Borda counts, and Schulze tiebreaks. Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://texttospeech.com/blog/our-methodology