OpenAI · 2023–25 · tts-1 / gpt-4o-mini-tts

OpenAI TTS

The speech endpoint most teams already have credentials for. gpt-4o-mini-tts (2025) takes natural-language delivery instructions instead of SSML. The clip here is OpenAI’s published Alloy documentation sample — a different script from our bench line.

Known for

Steerability through instructions; one-vendor convenience.

Vendor / paper demo

alloy · OpenAI API docs voice sample, Alloy.

OpenAI API documentation sample, Alloy voice. Published at cdn.openai.com/API/docs/audio/alloy.wav. Not the shared bench script.

Vendor / paper demo

nova · OpenAI API docs voice sample, Nova.

OpenAI API documentation sample, Nova voice. Published at cdn.openai.com/API/docs/audio/nova.wav.

Approach
AR seq2seq
Year / era
2023
License class
commercial
Cloning
No
Streaming
No
Emotion controls
Yes
Languages (tags)
en · multilingual
Official
Source
Kokoro 82M · af_heart