Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS sweeps all seven Voice Arena language boards to #1
kastnerkyle · x · 2026-09-24
Voice Arena TTS rankings show Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS taking #1 on all seven language boards, based on thousands of blind head-to-head votes from vetted native speakers scored with Bradley-Terry Elo. On US English, Flash-Lite leads at 1087 Elo (19 points above Cartesia's Sonic-3.6), with Gemini 3.8 Flash third at 1061. The pair finish #1-2 on five of six other boards, and with Gemini 3.1 Flash in third, Google holds the entire top three in Japanese, Arabic, Mexican Spanish, Vietnamese, and Brazilian Portuguese.
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