Foundational Voice AI

Voice AI
Built for AI Agents

Tontaube builds foundation text-to-speech models for the next generation of voice AI agents. Sub-200ms latency, on-device deployment, and naturalness that even holds up on long-form narration.

Tontaube V1 · Now Available

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Test our V1 model, designed for low latency and cost efficiency. Converse with our Voice AI Agent or type your text to synthesize audio...

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Tontaube V1 is a foundational voice AI model. Improved versions are coming to the app and API soon.

Long-form narration samples

Experience extended passages in English and German from Tontaube, the world's most natural-sounding model for audiobooks.

English
Audiobook narration — English
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Deutsch
Hörbuch-Erzählung — Deutsch
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Build with Tontaube

A high-speed, cost-efficient voice generation API powered by our architecture. Clone any voice from a single audio file and generate long-form speech at 10× real-time speed.

  • 1,000,000 free characters on sign-up
  • $5 per million characters
  • English & German · more languages coming soon
  • Pay-as-you-go with enterprise plans
  • Custom voices (coming soon)
  • ~200ms latency for enterprise customers
Go to API Platform
Python
Available on PyPI
import tontaube

with tontaube.Client(api_key="ttb_live_...") as client:
    speakers = client.list_speakers()
    for speaker in speakers:
        print(f"{speaker.name} ({speaker.voice_style}), id: {speaker.id}")

    response = client.generate_speech(
        text="I am here to help you with your project. Tell me what we are building today, and I will get right to work.",
        speaker_id=speakers[0].id,
        temperature=0.8,
    )

with open("speech.opus.m4a", "wb") as f:
    f.write(response.content)

print(f"Duration: {response.audio_duration}s, Cost: ${response.cost_usd}")
print("Result saved to speech.opus.m4a")
2.9B
Parameters
across four predictors
~200 ms
Time to first audio
streaming, single RTX 5090
0.08
Real-time factor
~12.5× faster than playback, single input
1.66%
Seed-TTS WER
English zero-shot, Whisper large-v3
Available Now

Tontaube for iOS & Android

Our audiobook and voice cloning app — already in the hands of thousands of listeners. Convert any document to audio, clone your voice, and stream from a public domain library.

  • PDF, EPUB & document conversion
  • Free voice cloning
  • 30,000+ AI audiobooks
Full product overview

Interested in Investing?

We've proven the architecture at prototype scale and are seeking investment to scale compute, data, and the team.