The post gives concrete latency, language, pricing, and access details for a voice agent TTS model, useful for comparing it with other options.
There’s a new TTS model on LiveKit Inference: assemblyai-tts-1, the first text-to-speech model from @AssemblyAI
At a glance:
• ~90ms to first audio
• 4,000+ voices
• English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese, with more on the way
• Word-level timestamps
• $15 per 1M characters
Add it to your agent, test it against the other TTS models on LiveKit Inference, and pick what sounds best for your callers.
Try it now: https://docs.livekit.io/agents/models/tts/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.
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Original title: There’s a new TTS model on LiveKit Inference: assemblyai-tts-1, the first text-to-speech model from @AssemblyAI
