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Google's new Flash TTS models let you design AI voices from scratch using text descriptions.

The DecoderIndependent reporting··Updated 12h ago
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Google released two text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, through its cloud platform, with Flash TTS able to generate new voices from text descriptions.

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Google introduced two text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, supporting more than 100 languages. Flash TTS can generate new voices from text descriptions, and both models allow users to add stage directions to individual lines.

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