gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts
A lightweight text-to-speech model released by Google, built on gemini-3.8-flash-tts with reduced cost, designed for speech synthesis use cases where price sensitivity is a primary consideration.
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In the team's listening tests, the Aoede voice on gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts won out, correctly handling all four sentence types: standard Urdu script, Romanized Urdu, English, and mixed sentences, and correctly pronouncing the brand name "Sitey".
Google has released two text-to-speech models, gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts.
gemini-3.8-flash-tts offers stronger performance, while gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts offers lower cost.
All Facts (3)
In the team's listening tests, the Aoede voice on gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts won out, correctly handling all four sentence types: standard Urdu script, Romanized Urdu, English, and mixed sentences, and correctly pronouncing the brand name "Sitey".
50%Unverifiedgemini-3.8-flash-tts offers stronger performance, while gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts offers lower cost.
50%UnverifiedGoogle has released two text-to-speech models, gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts.
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