AssemblyAI Launches TTS-1 Model on OpenRouter

Original title: AssemblyAI-TTS-1 is now live on OpenRouter!
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AssemblyAI has released its first text-to-speech model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1, now available on OpenRouter. Designed for voice agents, it offers streaming with 90ms latency and over 4,000 voices at $15 per million characters. Third-party benchmarks rank it highly in speed, accuracy, and naturalness.

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AssemblyAI-TTS-1 is now live on OpenRouter!

@AssemblyAI's first text-to-speech model, built for voice agents. Ranked in the best quadrant for speed and accuracy, and highest naturalness for models at $15/1M characters or less, per @cekuraAi's benchmark.

4,000+ voices, served from US or EU.

↳ 引用 @AssemblyAI (AssemblyAI): Introducing AssemblyAI-TTS-1, our first text-to-speech model.

Natural speech for voice agents, streaming in 90 ms, at $15 per million characters. On accuracy, naturalness, and cost together, it’s the best TTS model you can run at scale.