Inworld Realtime TTS-2 tops voice leaderboard at 2.5x Eleven v3's speed, 1/5 price

ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-03

Artificial Analysis' Controlled Voice leaderboard crowns Inworld Realtime TTS-2 at Elo 1123, ahead of Cartesia Sonic 3.6 (1119) and ElevenLabs Eleven v3 (1062). It generates 106 characters per second vs 40 for Eleven v3, and costs $20.8/M characters — a fifth of Eleven v3's $100 and less than half of Sonic 3.6's $49. Open-weights models including Breeze TTS 2, Mistral Voxtral TTS and Fish Audio S2 Pro land in the top 16. Voting is open in the Speech Arena, with clips in the Speech Explorer.

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