HeyGen Voice tops the controlled-voice TTS arena
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HeyGen Voice takes the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Controlled Voice TTS Arena Leaderboard, ahead of Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus and ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 Turbo HeyGen Voice is the first Text to Speech model from @HeyGen evaluated in our Controlled Voice Arena, where models are evaluated using the same 8 cloned voices across US and UK English. Key takeaways: ➤ Controlled Voice: HeyGen Voice has an Elo of 1,201 across 1,468 arena appearances, placing it ahead of Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 1,182, Eleven v4 Turbo at 1,166 and Eleven v4 at 1,162. It ranks #1 in Assistants and Customer Service, #2 in Knowledge Sharing and #1 in English (UK). ➤ Pronunciation Robustness: HeyGen Voice scores 83.1%, ranking #10 of 29 models, behind Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at 84.6% and ahead of Inworld Realtime TTS-2 at 80.7%. It ranks #2 in Preserving Exact Sequences at 83.3%, behind only SpaceXAI TTS. ➤ Pricing: HeyGen Voice is priced at $30/1M characters, compared to Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus at $19.3/1M characters, Eleven v4 Turbo at $40/1M characters and Eleven v4 at $80/1M characters. ➤ Speed: HeyGen Voice processes 40 characters per second of generation time, compared to 76 characters…
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HeyGen Voice led one speech-generation ranking while placing tenth on a separate pronunciation test. In its October 9 post, Artificial Analysis ranked it first in an arena that compares models using the same eight cloned voices across US and UK English. Its pronunciation robustness score was 83.1%, tenth among 29 models. Comparing matched voices and testing pronunciation answer different questions, so the arena lead alone does not establish that HeyGen makes the fewest pronunciation errors.
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