HeyGen Voice Turbo tops TTS arena at #1, priced 7.5x cheaper than its predecessor
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-10-22
Two weeks after its previous model hit #1, HeyGen released HeyGen Voice Turbo, which now tops the Artificial Analysis Controlled Voice TTS Arena with an Elo of 1,202 across 1,663 appearances (46 models), at just $4/1M characters — the lowest price on the leaderboard and 7.5x cheaper than HeyGen Voice at $30.
Key results:
- Category ranks: #1 in Assistants (1,233) and Entertainment (1,204); #2 in Customer Service (1,203) and Knowledge Sharing (1,182).
- Accents: #1 in English (UK) at 1,197; #2 in English (US) at 1,204, behind Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus.
- Pronunciation Robustness: 87.8% overall (#8 of 33), up from 83.2%, and #1 in Preserving Exact Sequences at 91.8%.
- Price context: Simba 3.2 at $6.6, Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS at $11, Voxtral 3 TTS at $13, Eleven v4 Turbo at $40 per 1M characters.
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