Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Summary
Google released two new text-to-speech models (gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts) that can convert written text into spoken audio using over 2,000 voices or custom voices created from a 30-second audio sample. A developer created an interactive playground tool where users can write multi-character conversations, preview the generated speech, and share their creations through shareable URLs.
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Original source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/23/gemini-tts-playground/
First tracked: September 23, 2026 at 08:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%