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Synthesia / Synthesia speech

Express-Voice

In-context voice cloning and speech synthesis, used by remastered studio voices with pronunciation controls.

availableClosed weightsText-to-speechVoice cloning
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 14 Oct 2026
7 of 18 specification fields collected
Context windowNot collectedAwaiting source review
Maximum outputNot collectedAwaiting source review
Input billingNot collectedSynthesia
Output billingNot collectedNo inferred price

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

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Maximum output
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Context caching
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Reasoning
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Tool calling
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Structured output
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Streaming
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Batch processing
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Fine-tuning
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Parameters
800M autoregressive stage + 800M non-autoregressive stageSource for Parameters (opens in a new tab)

Stage counts are reported separately; no aggregate count including the tokenizer is asserted.

Architecture
Two-stage Transformer speech synthesis: autoregressive coarse speech followed by non-autoregressive detailSource for Architecture (opens in a new tab)
Knowledge cutoff
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Languages
English accents evaluated; full model-specific production language list not establishedSource for Languages (opens in a new tab)

The platform’s 140+ language claim includes other speech providers and is not copied to this checkpoint.

Release date
Not collected

No model-specific public value established in the reviewed sources.

Input modalities
Text, AudioSource for Input modalities (opens in a new tab)

Target text and a reference voice recording for in-context cloning.

Tokenizer
Descript residual vector quantization audio tokenizerSource for Tokenizer (opens in a new tab)
Voice reference requirements
20–30-second separate reference clips used in the published evaluationSource for Voice reference requirements (opens in a new tab)

Evaluation protocol, not a documented production minimum or maximum. In-context cloning does not require per-speaker fine-tuning.

Access & pricing

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

API model ID
Not collected

Avatar IDs, voice IDs and component labels are not public immutable model checkpoint selectors.

Access
Select the Synthesia Express-Voice variant for remastered voices in the studio script editor. No standalone public TTS checkpoint selector is established.
Regions
AWS public-cloud hosting; no model-specific regional processing guarantee established.
voiceVariants
Remastered voices default to Synthesia Express-Voice. Switching to ElevenLabs Turbo v2 selects a different provider model and disables the remastered pronunciation controls.Source for voiceVariants (opens in a new tab)
Pronunciation controls
Studio controls accept phonetic spelling or a recorded pronunciation reference, with IPA/respelling choices and glossary reuse. Reliability varies by voice and language.Source for Pronunciation controls (opens in a new tab)
speed
Paragraph or whole-video speed adjustment from 0.8× to 1.2×. Numeric ratios are approximate, not guaranteed precise time stretching.Source for speed (opens in a new tab)
interactiveApi
Not supportedSource for interactiveApi (opens in a new tab)

Current BYO Interactive Avatar API explicitly does not provide Synthesia voices. External TTS is supplied by the integrator.

Billing scope
No separately published Express-Voice per-character, per-token or per-minute tariff verified. Video creation is billed through the studio plan; avoid inferring a speech price from video bundles.Source for Billing scope (opens in a new tab)

Endpoint pricing has not been collected. Check the provider for applicable rates.

Data & enterprise terms

Hosted on AWS. Customer data deletion is described as taking up to 90 days, with residual backups subject to their lifecycle. Service-improvement terms permit usage analysis within specified customer-instruction and consent restrictions; this is not a universal no-training or zero-retention promise.

Read the service policy (opens in a new tab)

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.

Synthesia

Not verified

Saved avatars, reusable videos and enrollment reuse are not documented prompt caching or discounted input-token billing.

How it works
Not collected

Saved avatars, reusable videos and enrollment reuse are not documented prompt caching or discounted input-token billing.

Minimum reusable input
Not collected

Saved avatars, reusable videos and enrollment reuse are not documented prompt caching or discounted input-token billing.

Lifetime & refresh
Not collected

Saved avatars, reusable videos and enrollment reuse are not documented prompt caching or discounted input-token billing.

How to enable it
Not collected

Saved avatars, reusable videos and enrollment reuse are not documented prompt caching or discounted input-token billing.

Usage fields
Not collected

Saved avatars, reusable videos and enrollment reuse are not documented prompt caching or discounted input-token billing.

Billing rules
Not collected

Saved avatars, reusable videos and enrollment reuse are not documented prompt caching or discounted input-token billing.

Limits & data boundaries
Not collected

Saved avatars, reusable videos and enrollment reuse are not documented prompt caching or discounted input-token billing.

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

Caching reviewed 14 Oct 2026

What the measurements say

WavLM speaker similarity

Synthesia · provider-reported
0.977943cosine similarity

Provider study described in June 2025: 17 English-speaking identities with diverse accents, 13 target sentences each, separate 20–30-second cloning references. Chart values matched to EXPRESS-Voice in the published JavaScript. No independent replication or universal ranking claimed.

Evaluation source (opens in a new tab)

Emotion2Vec emotional similarity

Synthesia · provider-reported
0.788616cosine similarity

Provider study described in June 2025: 17 English-speaking identities with diverse accents, 13 target sentences each, separate 20–30-second cloning references. Chart values matched to EXPRESS-Voice in the published JavaScript. No independent replication or universal ranking claimed.

Evaluation source (opens in a new tab)

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

Synthesia identifies this named model in its proprietary research or product materials. No public model weights or permissive weight license are established; open client code does not expose the serving model.

Classification evidence (opens in a new tab)

Sources reviewed