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We recommend using Sonic 3.5 for best results, most languages, and naturalness. We continue to serve these older models for compatibility.
Some models and snapshots are being discontinued on June 1, 2026 — see API Changes for details.
the latest stable snapshot of the model
to be discontinued June 1, 2026
All models have a base model name (e.g. sonic-2, sonic-turbo) and date-versioned model names (e.g. sonic-2-2025-06-11). We recommend using base model names for prototyping and development, then switching to a date-versioned model for production use cases to ensure stability.

sonic-3

Sonic 3 is a streaming TTS model with high naturalness, accurate transcript following, and industry-leading latency. Sonic 3 supports fine-grained control on volume, speed, and emotion via API parameters and SSML tags — useful when those controls matter for your use case (these are temporarily disabled on sonic-3.5). Key features:

Language support

Sonic 3 supports the following languages:
English (en)French (fr)German (de)Spanish (es)
Portuguese (pt)Chinese (zh)Japanese (ja)Hindi (hi)
Italian (it)Korean (ko)Dutch (nl)Polish (pl)
Russian (ru)Swedish (sv)Turkish (tr)Tagalog (tl)
Bulgarian (bg)Romanian (ro)Arabic (ar)Czech (cs)
Greek (el)Finnish (fi)Croatian (hr)Malay (ms)
Slovak (sk)Danish (da)Tamil (ta)Ukrainian (uk)
Hungarian (hu)Norwegian (no)Vietnamese (vi)Bengali (bn)
Thai (th)Hebrew (he)Georgian (ka)Indonesian (id)
Telugu (te)Gujarati (gu)Kannada (kn)Malayalam (ml)
Marathi (mr)Punjabi (pa)

Snapshots

SnapshotRelease DateStatus
sonic-3-2026-01-12January 12, 2026Stable
sonic-3-2025-10-27October 27, 2025Stable
the latest stable snapshot of the model.
# Use the base model (auto-routes to latest stable snapshot)
model_id = "sonic-3"

# Or pin a specific snapshot
model_id = "sonic-3-2026-01-12"
For details on alias and snapshot conventions, see Continuous updates and model snapshots. Sonic 3 remains a strong choice when you need speed and volume controls today — these are temporarily disabled on Sonic 3.5. See Volume, Speed, and Emotion and SSML Tags for details. Ready to move to Sonic 3.5? See Migrating from Sonic 3 to Sonic 3.5.

sonic-2

Sonic-2 provides ultra-realistic speech with accurate transcript following, minimal hallucinations, and excellent voice cloning. It’s latency optimized and achieves 90ms model latency. Additional Capabilities:
  • Higher fidelity voice cloning
  • Timestamps for all 15 languages
  • Infill support
SnapshotRelease DateLanguagesStatus
sonic-2-2025-06-11June 11, 2025en, fr, de, es, pt, zh, ja, koStable
sonic-2-2025-06-11June 11, 2025 hi, it, nl, pl, ru, sv, trEOL June 1, 2026
sonic-2-2025-05-08May 8, 2025en, fr, de, es, pt, zh, ja, koStable
sonic-2-2025-05-08May 8, 2025 hi, it, nl, pl, ru, sv, trEOL June 1, 2026
sonic-2-2025-04-16April 16, 2025en, fr, de, es, pt, zh, ja, koStable
sonic-2-2025-04-16April 16, 2025 hi, it, nl, pl, ru, sv, trEOL June 1, 2026
sonic-2-2025-03-07March 7, 2025en, fr, de, es, pt, zh, ja, hi, it, ko, nl, pl, ru, sv, trEOL June 1, 2026
Read these pages to learn more about how to use Sonic-2:

sonic-turbo

All the power of Sonic 2, with half the latency (as low as 40ms).
SnapshotRelease DateLanguagesStatus
sonic-turbo-2025-06-04June 6, 2025en, fr, de, es, pt, zh, ja, hi, koStable
sonic-turbo-2025-06-04June 6, 2025 it, nl, pl, ru, sv, trEOL June 1, 2026
sonic-turbo-2025-03-07March 7, 2025en, fr, de, es, pt, zh, ja, hi, it, ko, nl, pl, ru, sv, trEOL June 1, 2026

sonic

The first version of our flagship text-to-speech model. It produces high-accuracy, expressive speech, and is optimized for efficiency to achieve low latency.
SnapshotRelease DateLanguagesStatus
sonic-2024-12-12December 12, 2024en, fr, de, es, pt, zh, ja, hi, it, ko, nl, pl, ru, sv, trEOL June 1, 2026
sonic-2024-10-19October 19, 2024en, fr, de, es, pt, zh, ja, hi, it, ko, nl, pl, ru, sv, trEOL June 1, 2026

Deprecated and Preview Model Aliases

The following model aliases are now deprecated. Please use the recommended model names instead:
Deprecated AliasUse Instead
sonic-3-previewsonic-3
sonic-previewsonic-2
sonic-english sonic-2024-10-19
sonic-multilingual sonic-2024-10-19