Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS New
Google's expressive text-to-speech model in the Gemini API and AI Studio: 2,000+ library voices, voice design from a text prompt, 30-second voice replication, per-line acting direction and two-speaker scenes in 130 languages. New Nov 4 2026: Voice Remixing lets you tweak any voice's timbre, pitch, pace, accent and delivery with a prompt, handy for NPC and character voices.
- Categories
- Voice
- Pricing
- Freemium Free tier in the Gemini API; paid $0.50/1M input text tokens and $9/1M audio output tokens (~$0.00225 per 10s) through Dec 31 2026, doubling Jan 1 2027
- Est. monthly spend
- Unknown. Check the vendor's site for current pricing.
- Website
- https://aistudio.google.com/docs/speech-generation
- Added
- 5 Nov 2026
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