OpenAI
gpt-4o-mini-tts
Measured 2026-07-03
Run gpt-4o-mini-tts on Speko →One API, every model on this board.
Naturalness
1424
Win % · 95% CI
37%
31–43%
Drift
22
Synth p50
691ms
691–1171 p50–p90
Robustness
0.44
Fined:
• fatal · dates — never said “friday” or “sunday” (20 of 35 transcripts)
→ we sent “The fair runs Fri–Sun, Oct 9–11.”
→ it said “The fair runs. Fry to sun, October 9, to eleventh.”
• fatal · large numbers — never said “one million one” (9 of 31 transcripts)
→ we sent “We logged 1,000,001 events overnight.”
→ it said “We logged one thousand one hundred and one events overnight.”
• fatal · math operators — never said “greater than or equal to” (20 of 23 transcripts)
→ we sent “Keep x ≥ 10 at all times.”
→ it said “Keep x equals 10 at all times.”
+ 6 more fined
Cost / 1M chars
$20.0
Token-billed: $0.60/1M text in, $12/1M audio out; OpenAI publishes no per-character or per-minute rate. At ~25 audio tokens/sec (not OpenAI-published) and 900 chars/min, ~$20 per 1M chars. Legacy tts-1 is $15, tts-1-hd $30 per 1M chars.
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