HeyGen Voice is priced at $30 per 1 million characters and generates 40 characters per second, trailing the 76 characters per second speed of Eleven v4. It scored 83.1% on a pronunciation robustness benchmark, ranking 10th of 29 models, but placed second for preserving exact text sequences with a score of 83.3%.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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HeyGen Voice Debuts at No 1 on Artificial Analysis TTS Leaderboard
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The new voice model from HeyGen recorded an Elo of 1,201 across 1,468 appearances in the Controlled Voice Arena, surpassing Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus and ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 Turbo. This release marks the company's first in-house text-to-speech product, which is now available via the HeyGen platform and API. The model holds the top rank for customer service and assistants, as well as for UK English accents.
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