Summary
According to a post on X by @OpenRouter, AssemblyAI's first text-to-speech model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1, is now live on OpenRouter. The model is built for voice agents and offers more than 4,000 voices. Citing a benchmark from Cekura, the post says it lands in the best quadrant for speed and accuracy and has the highest naturalness among models priced at $15 per million characters or less. The excerpt is truncated, so the full benchmark method and results are not shown.
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What happened
AssemblyAI-TTS-1 is built for voice agents and offers more than 4,000 voices. Per Cekura's benchmark, it lands in the best quadrant for speed and accuracy and has the highest naturalness among models at $15 per million characters or less. Also: https://x.com/AssemblyAI/status/2115544033871417831 <a...
Why it matters
Developers building voice agents may now be able to test AssemblyAI-TTS-1 through OpenRouter alongside other models. The benchmark claims come from Cekura and the post itself, so teams would need to run their own tests on speed, accuracy and naturalness. Watch for full pricing details and independent benchmark results.
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