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ByteDance / Seed TTS

Seed TTS 2.0

Conversational speech synthesis with prompt controls, context-aware delivery and sentence emotion tags.

availableClosed weightsText-to-speech
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 Oct 2026
5 of 16 specification fields collected
Context windowNot collectedAwaiting source review
Maximum outputNot collectedAwaiting source review
Input billingSee ratesBytePlus Seed Speech
Output billingSee ratesPublished units and conditions below

Specifications

Provider-documented facts. “Not collected” means we have not verified that field yet, not that the feature is unsupported.

Context / input limit
Not collected
Maximum output
Not collected
Reasoning
Not collected
Tool calling
Not collected
Structured output
Not collected
Batch processing
Not collected
Fine-tuning
Not collected
Knowledge cutoff
Not collected
Release date
Not collected
Parameters
Not collected
Architecture
Not collected
Languages
View all 18 entries
  • American English
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Indonesian Bahasa
  • Indonesian
  • Thai
  • Vietnamese
  • Korean
  • Malay
  • Filipino
  • Mexican Spanish
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Arabic
  • German
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Italian
  • Russian
Source for Languages (opens in a new tab)

Voice-specific language support; not every voice supports every listed language.

Access & pricing

Prices belong to an endpoint and billing tier. A provider listing does not guarantee access for every account or region.

BytePlus Seed Speech · Unidirectional streaming HTTP

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
seed-tts-2.0

Provider model selector or X-Api-Resource-Id as documented; it is not a user voice ID.

Access
Enable Seed Speech for an eligible BytePlus account and use the documented resource selector. Voice permissions and concurrency limits apply.
Regions
ap-southeast-1 API endpoint; other regions not verified
Service tier
Unidirectional streaming HTTPSource for Service tier (opens in a new tab)
Audio formats
PCM, MP3, OGG_OPUSSource for Audio formats (opens in a new tab)

WAV may be accepted but repeated streaming headers make PCM preferable.

Audio sample rates
8,000; 16,000; 22,050; 24,000; 32,000; 44,100; 48,000 HzSource for Audio sample rates (opens in a new tab)

Shared API values. The TTS 2.0 overview lists a narrower set; verify the chosen model/format combination.

Prices retain their published currencies and billing units below.

Published billing units · original currency · observed 12 Oct 2026
CategoryUsageRateUnit
Speech synthesisInput text1$30.001M characters

Rate conditions

  1. Published Seed TTS service-level PAYG rate; no model-version surcharge is stated. Letters, Chinese characters, punctuation, spaces and line breaks count. Optional concurrency and prepaid packages are separate.
Pricing source (opens in a new tab)

Data & enterprise terms

Retention, training use, regional processing and enterprise terms have not been summarized for this endpoint.

BytePlus Seed Speech · Bidirectional streaming WebSocket

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
seed-tts-2.0

Provider model selector or X-Api-Resource-Id as documented; it is not a user voice ID.

Access
Enable Seed Speech for an eligible BytePlus account and use the documented resource selector. Voice permissions and concurrency limits apply.
Regions
ap-southeast-1 API endpoint; other regions not verified
Service tier
Bidirectional streaming WebSocketSource for Service tier (opens in a new tab)
Audio formats
PCM, MP3, OGG_OPUSSource for Audio formats (opens in a new tab)

WAV may be accepted but repeated streaming headers make PCM preferable.

Audio sample rates
8,000; 16,000; 22,050; 24,000; 32,000; 44,100; 48,000 HzSource for Audio sample rates (opens in a new tab)

Shared API values. The TTS 2.0 overview lists a narrower set; verify the chosen model/format combination.

Prices retain their published currencies and billing units below.

Published billing units · original currency · observed 12 Oct 2026
CategoryUsageRateUnit
Speech synthesisInput text1$30.001M characters

Rate conditions

  1. Published Seed TTS service-level PAYG rate; no model-version surcharge is stated. Letters, Chinese characters, punctuation, spaces and line breaks count. Optional concurrency and prepaid packages are separate.
Pricing source (opens in a new tab)

Data & enterprise terms

Retention, training use, regional processing and enterprise terms have not been summarized for this endpoint.

Caching

Caching can reuse earlier input processing. Availability, lifetime and billing depend on the endpoint. A cache hit still generates a new response.

01 / INITIAL INPUTProcess & retain

The system processes eligible input and retains reusable state.

02 / LATER REQUESTCheck available state

Reuse depends on matching input, session state and the cache policy.

03 / CACHE HITReuse & generate

Reusing state can reduce repeated work. Any charges follow the billing rules below.

BytePlus Seed Speech · Unidirectional streaming HTTP

seed-tts-2.0
Documented
Support evidence (opens in a new tab)
How it works
Repeated-text synthesized-audio cacheSource for How it works (opens in a new tab)
Minimum reusable input
Not collected

No minimum text length documented.

How to enable it
Set additions.cache_config.text_type=1 and use_cache=true.Source for How to enable it (opens in a new tab)
Usage fields
Identical text reuses previously synthesized audio.Source for Usage fields (opens in a new tab)
Billing rules
Not collected

No cache-hit discount or separate storage charge verified.

Limits & data boundaries
Cached responses do not include timestamps. This is audio reuse, not LLM prompt caching.Source for Limits & data boundaries (opens in a new tab)

No verified cache rate for this endpoint. An empty rate is not a zero charge.

Caching reviewed 12 Oct 2026

BytePlus Seed Speech · Bidirectional streaming WebSocket

seed-tts-2.0
Not verified
How it works
Not collected
Minimum reusable input
Not collected
Lifetime & refresh
Not collected
How to enable it
Not collected
Usage fields
Not collected
Billing rules
Not collected
Limits & data boundaries
Not collected

No verified cache rate for this endpoint. An empty rate is not a zero charge.

Voice choices

177 voices

Choose a voice within Seed TTS 2.0. These are API voice identifiers, not additional model releases. Source links document each voice.

Published voice catalog
Voice / API IDLanguage & accentDelivery
Stokieen_female_stokie_uranus_bigttsAmerican EnglishGeneral. A trendy, casual, and expressive young female voiceVoice source (opens in a new tab)
Daceyen_female_dacey_uranus_bigttsAmerican EnglishGeneral. A crisp, confident, and engaging young female voiceVoice source (opens in a new tab)
Timen_male_tim_uranus_bigttsAmerican EnglishGeneral. A clear, versatile, and friendly mid-range male voiceVoice source (opens in a new tab)
Blairen_female_nadia_uranus_bigttsAmerican EnglishGeneral. A young American female voice—clean and clear, with a gentle, relaxed way of speakingVoice source (opens in a new tab)
Kevinen_male_kevin_uranus_bigttsAmerican EnglishEducation. A young, clear, and friendly American male voice with fluent, articulate deliveryVoice source (opens in a new tab)
Jamieen_male_jamie_uranus_bigttsAmerican EnglishGeneral. A hearty male voice—sincere and candid, witty and full of energyVoice source (opens in a new tab)
Hayleyen_female_hayley_uranus_bigttsAmerican EnglishEducation. A lively female voice with strong emotional tension, skilled at storytellingVoice source (opens in a new tab)
Skyeen_female_skye_uranus_bigttsAmerican EnglishGeneral. A clear, candid older sister who speaks sincerely and from the heartVoice source (opens in a new tab)

What the measurements say

No benchmark observations have been added for this model. We do not turn a vendor description into a performance score.

Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.

The record behind the model

Why it is included

Inferred from the native hosted model/resource identifier and the reviewed ByteDance/ByteDance-Seed public-checkpoint inventories. These inventories contain no matching released checkpoint; this is not an explicit weight-license declaration.

Classification evidence (opens in a new tab)

Sources reviewed