{"slug": "simba-3-2-frontier-tts-for-10-1m-characters", "title": "Simba 3.2 Frontier TTS for $10/1M Characters", "summary": "Speechify released Simba 3.2 and Simba 3.0, text-to-speech models that cut time-to-first-audio to roughly 100ms on Coval's benchmark while keeping the same voices, quality, and per-character pricing. The company said the update changes where and how inference is served rather than the model weights, and adds watermarking to comply with EU rules on generative content. Simba 3.2 is positioned for English, while Simba 3.0 covers German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese plus zero-shot voice cloning, with legacy Simba 1.6 set for a hard switch-off before mid-November.", "body_md": "Simba 3.2 and Simba 3.0 just dropped to around 100ms time-to-first-audio on Coval's benchmark. Same voices, same quality, same price. It's already the cheapest model in Artificial Analysis' top ten, and the cheapest in model on Vapi's Humanness Index with a score of 97/100.\n\n[Sign-up today to try our models and hear for yourself](https://speechify.ai/build).\n\nYes. Simba 3.2 and Simba 3.0 are one per-character rate whichever endpoint you call, and the efficiency has not changed it.\n\nNo. The release changed where and how inference is served, not the weights or the voices. We've also snuck in watermarking to meet EU regs on generative content.\n\nSimba 3.2 for English, because it has the most expressive delivery and now the lowest time-to-first-audio. Simba 3.0 if you need German, Spanish, French, Italian or Brazilian Portuguese, or self-serve zero-shot cloned voices. Our legacy Simba 1.6 supports more languages, and those languages will be finding their way into Simba 3.0 before mid-November hard switch-off of Simba 1.6. Simba 3.2 and Simba 3.0 both sit at around 100ms now, so pick on language and voice support.\n\nTime-to-first-audio, from the request being sent to the first audible sample.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simba-3-2-frontier-tts-for-10-1m-characters", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/speechifyai/simba-32-frontier-tts-for-101m-characters-7c6", "published_at": "2026-09-16 13:35:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 13:43:07.939649+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "natural-language-processing", "generative-ai", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Speechify", "Simba 3.2", "Simba 3.0", "Simba 1.6", "Coval", "Artificial Analysis", "Vapi", "European Union"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simba-3-2-frontier-tts-for-10-1m-characters", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simba-3-2-frontier-tts-for-10-1m-characters.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simba-3-2-frontier-tts-for-10-1m-characters.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simba-3-2-frontier-tts-for-10-1m-characters.jsonld"}}