10 posts tagged "streaming".
Since 9 October 2026, SpeechifyAI takes an LLM's reply over a WebSocket as it is written. From Google Cloud us-east4 that day, the first word was audible 449 ms after the first token, against 468 ms with one HTTP request per sentence and 2,525 ms for the whole reply at once.
SpeechifyAI team
On 1 October 2026, SpeechifyAI's $10 Starter plan allowed 15 concurrent text-to-speech requests and its $99 Pro plan 30. Concurrency and rate limits for 14 text-to-speech APIs, plan by plan, read from each provider's own pages that day.
SpeechifyAI team
LiveKit's Python plugin adds Speechify TTS to an AgentSession in one line. It streams each sentence: 82 ms median first audio from US East on 28 Sep 2026.
SpeechifyAI team
Simba 3.2 reached first audio in a median of 106 ms on Coval over the 24 hours to 24 September 2026, and 123 ms on Voice Arena's US English board that day. What to measure before you pick a TTS API for a voice agent, and what cuts the wait.
SpeechifyAI team
Coval's independent benchmark measured Simba 3.2's median time to first audio at 379 ms on 13 September 2026 and 106 ms on 24 September, with the same model. What changed, why Coval counts leading silence, and how to reproduce it.
SpeechifyAI team
What streaming text-to-speech makes possible: read-aloud, voice agents, call narration, live captions, and read-along highlighting, all built on the Speechify streaming endpoints.
Luke Oliff
What engineers actually use to add voice to web and mobile apps, and the four decisions that matter: the browser's built-in API versus a cloud one, streaming versus batch, where the key lives, and how to keep audio playing on iOS.
Luke Oliff
simba-3.2 is now the recommended Speechify TTS model, and GET /v1/audio/models lets you discover it at runtime instead of hardcoding a model list. What shipped, which voices it serves, and how to move off simba-3.0.
Luke Oliff
Stream Speechify TTS as raw PCM, keep the API key server-side, and schedule each chunk into the browser's Web Audio API for low-latency playback.
Luke Oliff
How to stream audio from the Speechify TTS API in Python with plain HTTP and requests. Covers chunked streaming to disk and piping audio to a player without waiting for the full payload.
Luke Oliff
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