Streaming TTS now carries word-level speech marks
A new endpoint streams speech marks alongside audio, so captions and text highlighting no longer need the non-streamed API.
Text highlighting, captions, and audio-text sync on the streaming path have had to wait for the non-streamed POST /v1/audio/speech response to get word timing. POST /v1/audio/stream/with-timestamps closes that gap: the same low-latency Server-Sent Events stream as POST /v1/audio/stream, with word-level speech marks interleaved alongside the audio as it arrives.
POST /v1/audio/stream itself is unchanged - this ships as a new route rather than a flag, so the existing response shape stays exactly as it was for every caller not opting in.
Marks are produced by the streaming-native models (simba-3.0, simba-3.2); the legacy simba-english and simba-multilingual models don’t support them on the streaming path.
See the docs changelog entry for the full event shape and a working example.