Drama 3 ranks high on Artificial Analysis speech speed, price and pronunciation tests

Artificial Analysis reports that Drama 3 generates speech at 66.6 characters per second for $15 per million characters.

That is faster than Drama 3 Preview at 60.7 and Murf's Speech Gen 2 at 63.0, but slower than ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 at 70.0. It is cheaper than Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS at $16.5 per million and Eleven v4 at $80 per million, and Artificial Analysis says every model ranked above it on Provider Voice costs more.

In a separate post, Artificial Analysis says Drama 3 scores 94.6% overall on its Pronunciation Robustness benchmark, first among all models it tested, open weights or proprietary. Human reviewers judged whether models pronounce challenging text correctly. Drama 3 ranks first in Expanding Shorthand at 96.6% and second in Contextually Appropriate at 96.5%, but 13th in Standalone Terms at 91.8%.