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Google WaveNet Google · text-to-speech (TTS) API

Listener Elo 918 ±12 on Artificial Analysis (read October 22, 2026); latency not measured.

Benchmark summary: No speed tier: Coval, the source of the tiers, does not measure this model.

Google WaveNet is a proprietary text-to-speech (TTS) API from Google, measured by one independent benchmark, Artificial Analysis.

Speed tier

Not measured by Coval

No speed tier: Coval, the source of the tiers, does not measure this model.

Median time to first audioCoval, 30 days
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P95 time to first audio (slow turns)Coval, 30 days
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Naturalness EloSpeko
not rated
Listener Elo (95% interval)Artificial Analysis
918 ±12
Numbers and dates (0 to 1)Speko
not rated
List price per 1M charactersall sources
$4
  • Customer service (Artificial Analysis): 83rd, Elo 977 ±33

Data read October 22, 2026. No combined score: methodology

Gradium TTS vs Google WaveNet Fastest TTS APIs, by speed tier

Speed

Neither Coval nor Speko measures Google WaveNet's latency, so it has no speed tier and does not appear in the speed tiers.

Voice quality

In the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena it holds 918 ±12 Elo (95% interval), 89th highest of the 98 models Artificial Analysis rates; scores whose intervals overlap are a tie. In its Customer Service category, Artificial Analysis places it 83rd, at 977 Elo.

Numbers and dates

Speko has not scored its pronunciation of numbers and dates.

Price

Artificial Analysis lists $4. List prices, as each source prints them.

Benchmark measurements

Artificial Analysis Speech Arena

Customer service rank
83
Customer service Elo
977
Customer service Elo 95% interval (±)
33
Speech Arena Elo (blind listener preference)
918
Elo 95% interval (±)
12
Arena rank
89
Arena rank range
88-90
Arena appearances
6,315
Voices tested
8
Price per 1M characters
4 USD
Released
Sept 2016
Artificial Analysis model
WaveNet
Artificial Analysis leaderboard
artificialanalysis.ai

Price (all sources)

Lowest list price per 1M characters
4 USD
Highest list price per 1M characters
4 USD

Not collected

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