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AssemblyAI: TTS 1

assemblyai/assemblyai-tts-1

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AssemblyAI TTS 1 is a text-to-speech model from AssemblyAI. It is suited for voice agents, narration, and multilingual applications, and draws on a public library of several thousand voices across languages. Voices are selected by slug or ID, and the spoken language follows the chosen voice or can be set explicitly through the language provider option.

Modalities
Price
$15/M characters
Released
Oct 28, 2026
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Playground

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Available through EU in-region routing

AssemblyAI: TTS 1 is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).

Providers in Europe
AssemblyAI
Base URL
https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1
Plan
Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing

Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs

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When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

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Frequently asked questions

AssemblyAI TTS 1 is a text-to-speech model from AssemblyAI. It is suited for voice agents, narration, and multilingual applications, and draws on a public library of several thousand voices across languages. Voices are selected by slug or ID, and the spoken language follows the chosen voice or can be set explicitly through the language provider option.

TTS 1 costs $15.00/M characters.

TTS 1 ships 11 voices. Pass a voice ID in the voice field of a text-to-speech request; the IDs this endpoint accepts are listed with the model in the models API.

TTS 1 accepts text as input and returns generated speech audio.

TTS 1 was released on October 28, 2026.

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Universal-3.6 Pro is AssemblyAI's speech-to-text model and the successor to Universal-3.5 Pro, served here through AssemblyAI's Sync API. Compared with Universal-3.5 Pro, AssemblyAI reports 30% fewer errors on short conversational utterances, 12% fewer errors on average across supported languages, 14 newly supported languages, and better recognition and formatting of entities such as phone numbers, addresses, emails, and codes. It returns a complete transcript with word-level timestamps in a single synchronous response for audio up to 20 minutes, accepts WAV and compressed input (MP3, M4A, AAC, Ogg/Opus, FLAC, and WebM), and supports free-text prompting, keyterms, and conversation context to steer transcription toward domain vocabulary.

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