The new frontier in text-to-speech

Create extraordinary voice experiences in 60+ languages with expressive control, exceptional precision, instant voice cloning, and low-latency streaming.

$0.70 per generated hour.

Trusted by teams building global voice products

Livekit
Krisp
Pipecat
Summary AI
Perplexity
Samsung
Wispr Flow
LG
Agora
Retell AI
Fireflies.ai
Skit.ai
Kindroid
Deliver Health
Truecaller
Journalia
Mobius
TranscribeMe
Vapi
Zomato
SLNG
Japan AI
Boost.ai
Convin
Genspark
HappyRobot
Uniscribe
Jamie.ai
InteractCX
The Plato
MobilApp
Onvego
Wonderful.ai
Manifone
Tana
Transync AI
SotaTek

A new standard for AI speech

Natural, expressive, and multilingual speech with unprecedented control over how every voice sounds and performs.

Direct every performance

Audio tags let you direct emotion, delivery, and vocal reactions, from whispers, laughter, and hesitation to excitement, tension, and reassurance.

[panicking][rapid-fire]Okay okay okay, stay calm, stay calm [alarmed]no wait, don't touch that! [shouting][getting louder]SOMEBODY CALL AN AMBULANCE! [shaky breath][desperate]Please, hurry.

The emergency
Panic

[confused]Uhhhh, hi? Wait a second. How did you just DO that?

The magic trick
Confusion

[shaky breath]I... I don't know how to say this. [sad]We've grown apart, haven't we? [trembling voice]I never wanted to hurt you... [sobs][sniffles]please don't make this harder. [quietly]I'm sorry.

The breakup
Sadness

[yawning]Okay... [drawn out]iiit's so late. [tired][sighing]What a day. [muttering]just five more minutes... [softly]g'night.

Bedtime
Coziness

[disgusted]Ugh, what is that smell. [sniffs][gagging tone]Eww, no [pfft]Pfft, that has been in there for weeks. [sucks teeth]I told you to throw it out.

The fridge
Disgust

[whispering]Shh, shh she's coming. [excited]SURPRISE!!! [loudly]Happy birthday!!! [laughing]Look at her FACE! [happy]Oh, this is the best.

Surprise party
Excitement

[whispering][tense]Okay, don't move. [breathy]Did you hear that? [slowly][cautiously]Three... two... [sharp inhale]now GO!

The countdown
Tension

[excited]Okay okay open it, open it! [gasp][awe]No way is this the [voice cracking][happy]oh my gosh, I can't believe you remembered! [sobs][laughing]I'm crying, I'm actually crying.

The gift
Joy

[nervous]So, um... [hesitantly]there's something I— [stammers]I-I-I need to tell you. [trailing off]... [sighs]fine. It was me. [softly]I broke the vase.

Nervous confession
Hesitation

[gasps][awe]Is that oh my gosh, is that YOU?! [excited][loudly]I can't believe it! [voice cracking][happy]I've missed you so much. [laughing]Look at you!

The reunion
Surprise

[excited][quickly]He's got the ball, he's running, he's— [getting louder]OH! [shouting]GOOOAL!!! [laughing]UNBELIEVABLE! [rushed]What a finish, folks!

Sports commentary
Euphoria

Speech that feels human

Soniox generates speech with natural rhythm, pacing, emphasis, and expression, adapting its delivery to the meaning of the text.

Natural and expressive

I thought I knew exactly how the evening would unfold. Then the phone rang. For a moment, I considered letting it go to voicemail—but something told me to answer.

Conversational

Absolutely. I found three flights that arrive before noon. The first is the least expensive, but the second gives you a much shorter connection. Would you like me to compare them?

Storytelling

By the time we reached the top of the hill, the sun was already beginning to set. We stopped for a moment, looked back at the road behind us, and realized the entire valley had turned gold.

Exceptional quality in 60+ languages

Hear the same voice deliver natural, expressive speech across 60+ languages with consistent quality, identity, and pronunciation.

Mix languages naturally

Soniox handles foreign names, technical terminology, and language changes naturally within one continuous utterance.

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English and Spanish

Your reservation is confirmed. Cuando llegues al hotel, muestra este código en recepción: ES-4928.

English and French

The meeting has been moved to Tuesday. Merci de confirmer votre disponibilité avant la fin de la journée.

English and Korean

To enable the new feature, open Settings and select 음성 복제, then tap Continue.

English and Japanese

Your order is ready for pickup. 店頭で注文番号 A-7392 をお見せください.

English and German

The deployment completed successfully. Bitte prüfen Sie jetzt die Produktionsumgebung und bestätigen Sie, dass alles funktioniert.

Clone any voice from seconds of audio

Create a high-fidelity voice clone that preserves the speaker’s identity, accent, rhythm, personality, and expressive range.

From everyday recording to studio-quality speech

Record anywhere. Soniox removes background noise, echo, and recording artifacts to create a clean, faithful voice clone.

Original noisy recording
A casual recording with background noise.
Clean cloned voice
The same voice, cloned clean and studio-ready.

More than imitation

Generate entirely new speech that sounds natural, expressive, and unmistakably like the original speaker.

Emma
Conversational voice agent
Original voice
Cloned voice

Exact speech

Complex terminology, names, numbers, and structured information spoken clearly and precisely.

Built for every domain

From medicine and science to law, finance, and engineering, Soniox accurately pronounces specialized terminology across fields of human knowledge.

Medicine

The differential diagnosis includes pheochromocytoma, hyperthyroidism, and supraventricular tachycardia.

Science

Deoxyribonucleic acid is transcribed into messenger RNA before translation occurs at the ribosome.

Law

The court applied the doctrine of promissory estoppel and remanded the case for further proceedings.

Finance

The portfolio uses collateralized loan obligations, interest-rate swaps, and inflation-linked securities.

Engineering

The system uses asynchronous replication, Byzantine fault tolerance, and hardware-accelerated cryptography.

Alphanumerics spoken correctly

Phone numbers, email addresses, verification codes, prices, dates, addresses, and identifiers are spoken clearly and precisely.

Phone number

You can reach our support team at +1 415 682 9074.

Email address

Send the completed form to alex.chen+support@example.com.

Verification code

Your verification code is 7Q4M9B. I repeat: 7Q4M9B.

Postal address

Your delivery is going to 1427 North St. Andrews Place, Apartment 6B, Los Angeles, California 90028.

Account identifier

Your case number is CX-8047-A19, and the affected device is model XR-12 Pro.

Price

Your total is $1,284.37, including tax and delivery.

Date and time

Your appointment is scheduled for October 21, 2026, at 8:45 a.m.

Names pronounced naturally

Soniox uses language and context to pronounce people, places, brands, and organizations naturally and accurately.

Person name

Your appointment with Siobhan O’Connor is confirmed.

Person name

Nguyễn Minh Anh will be joining the meeting shortly.

Place

Our Asian engineering office is located in Guangzhou.

Place

Your hotel is located near the historic center of Aix-en-Provence.

Technical term

The application is deployed on Kubernetes across several regions.

Product name

The workload runs on NVIDIA H100 GPUs.

Built for real-time conversation

low-latency streaming with precise control over what has already been spoken.

Speech starts before the sentence ends

Start playback while text is still streaming, without waiting for the full message.

Incoming textStreaming

Absolutely, I can help you change your reservation. What date would work better?

Generated speechSpeaking

Precise timing for every character

Character-level timestamps let applications synchronize text and audio, stop cleanly during interruptions, and continue from the correct point.

Agent
Your reservation includes breakfast, late checkout, and airport
User
Actually, can I change the dates?
Agent
Of course. What dates would work better?
Character timestamps
k7.30s
b7.53s
e7.54s
t7.55s
t7.77s
e7.79s
r7.81s
?7.85s

Faster, more responsive speech

Reduce pauses between sentences and punctuation while preserving natural, fluent delivery.

Standard pacing
Speaks with natural, unhurried pauses.
Reduced silence
Trims the pauses without rushing the voice.

Estimate your text-to-speech cost

Set your monthly generated speech volume to estimate your Soniox API cost for text-to-speech.

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Based on public pay-as-you-go pricing. Enterprise discounts and committed-use contracts may differ. Some providers charge separately for certain features. The calculator uses the public price for the provider configuration that most closely matches Soniox.

Speech infrastructure for massive scale

Soniox Text-to-Speech API performance and reliability

Build on one API and deploy in your region

Use the same models and API everywhere, with in-region processing to meet latency, data residency, and regulatory requirements.

Available: US, EU, Japan
Coming soon: Korea, Australia, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia, UK, Brazil

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Soniox Text-to-Speech API performance and reliability

Run mission-critical systems with confidence

  • 99.9% uptime
    Production-hardened infrastructure with monitoring and redundancy.
  • low-latency streaming
    Process speech in real time with low latency for responsive voice applications.
  • Priority support
    Severity-based incident response with direct access to the Soniox team.
Onvego uses Soniox Text-to-Speech API for multilingual voice experiences

"Before Soniox, our international users always had a noticeably different experience. Now accuracy and responsiveness match across all regions…it feels like one system instead of five."

Alon Yair CTO of Onvego

Privacy and compliance, built right in

Never stored, never saved.

Audio stays in memory, everything is processed in real-time.

Built for privacy-critical use cases.

Adhering to leading global security, privacy, and compliance standards.

Trusted where privacy matters most.

Used in industries where speech is sensitive, from healthcare to enterprise.

Soniox is Soc 2 Type 2 compliant
Soniox is ISO 27001:2022 compliant
Soniox is HIPAA compliant
Soniox is GDPR compliant
SOC 2 Type 2 · ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · HIPAA · GDPR

Frequently asked questions

Which languages does Soniox Text-to-Speech support?
Soniox Text-to-Speech supports 60+ languages with native-speaker fluency. This includes major global languages and many regional languages, with consistent quality across all of them.
Which voices are available?
Soniox offers 28 built-in studio-quality voices, including natural Spanish, British, Australian, and Indian accent variants. Every voice works with all 60+ supported languages, so one voice can carry your product across every market.
How does voice cloning work?
Upload a clean reference clip of up to 20 seconds of audio through the Soniox Console or API. You get back a voice ID that you use exactly like a built-in voice, and the cloned voice works across all 60+ supported languages.
How does Soniox TTS handle phone numbers, emails, and other alphanumerics?
Soniox TTS renders alphanumerics exactly as written. Phone numbers, email addresses, IDs, PINs, and codes are spoken correctly and consistently, without scrambled digits or dropped characters.
What does "hallucination-free" mean for TTS?
It means what you send is what gets spoken. Soniox TTS does not invent words, drop content, or make unexpected substitutions. The output faithfully matches your input text.
Can Soniox TTS handle mixed-language text in a single utterance?
Soniox TTS pronounces foreign names, borrowed words, and technical terms naturally within a sentence. Native language mixing in a single request is rolling out; until then, split text by language and send a request per segment. Every voice speaks all 60+ languages, so the same voice keeps the speaker consistent across segments.
Does Soniox TTS provide timestamps?
Yes. The WebSocket API returns character-level timestamps with start and end times for every character of spoken text, so you can highlight text in sync with the audio, stop cleanly on interruptions, and continue from the right point.
How much does Soniox Text-to-Speech cost?
Pricing is token-based: $4.00 per 1M input text tokens and $21.50 per 1M output audio tokens, which comes to about $0.70 per hour of generated speech.
How does Soniox TTS pronounce names and foreign words?
Soniox TTS handles person names, place names, brand names, and borrowed words with the pronunciation users expect, even when they originate from a different language than the surrounding text.
Is Soniox TTS fast enough for real-time voice agents?
Yes. Soniox TTS supports streaming speech generation, starting audio output before the full sentence is available. This enables low-latency responses for voice agents and live conversational systems.
Is Soniox TTS suitable for production and enterprise workloads?
Yes. Soniox TTS is built for high-concurrency production environments, offering:
- 99.9% uptime
- Scalable, production-hardened infrastructure
- Priority support with severity-based incident response
- Regional deployment for data residency compliance
How does Soniox handle privacy and data security?
Speech data is processed and stored entirely within your selected region, supporting data residency and regulatory requirements. Soniox is designed with privacy, security, and enterprise compliance in mind.
How do I get started?
You can explore the API documentation to start building immediately, or contact Soniox for production and enterprise deployments.
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