Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: #1 pronunciation robustness, #2 voice arena at 1263 Elo
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-23
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS with preset voices and voice cloning. Per Artificial Analysis: Flash TTS debuts #2 in Provider Voice Arena at 1263 Elo (behind Sonic 3.6 at 1272) and takes #1 in pronunciation robustness at 89.5%, with three Google models in the top four. Flash-Lite hits #6 at 1236. Multilingual: Flash-Lite is #1 in Japanese, #2 Arabic, #3 German. Speed: 2.7x and 2.4x realtime. Pricing: $32.98 and $22.07 per 1M characters — pricier than Gemini 3.1 ($18.31) but far below Eleven v3 ($100).
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