OpenAI: TTS-1
TTS-1 is a text to speech model from OpenAI released on Nov 6, 2023. It reads text and writes audio.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- n/a
- Context
- n/a
- Max output
- n/a
- Released
- Nov 6, 2023
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call TTS-1 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Temperature
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TTS-1 questions
Is TTS-1 open source?
No. OpenAI serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was TTS-1 released?
Nov 6, 2023.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on TTS-1?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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