VibeVoice 1.5B API

vibevoice
VibeVoice 1.5B sets a new benchmark for realistic and customizable AI voice synthesis, delivering natural and expressive speech tailored to diverse applications.
Output
$0.0008667 / sec
Released
Jan 5, 2026

Overview

VibeVoice 1.5B is a cutting-edge AI voice synthesis model engineered to deliver high-quality, natural-sounding speech with expressive tone modulation across diverse languages and contexts. Designed for scalability and versatility, VibeVoice supports content creators, developers, and enterprises requiring advanced voice generation for applications like virtual assistants, audiobooks, gaming, and multimedia production.

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Model Functionality and Input Flexibility

VibeVoice 1.5B processes various input types including plain text, SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language), and emotional/style tags to generate lifelike speech with nuanced prosody. The model effectively handles conversational dialogue, narration, and character voices with dynamic intonation.

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Performance and Output Quality

  • Latency: Supports near real-time voice generation optimized for interactive applications such as chatbots and live broadcasts.
  • Audio Quality: Produces studio-grade audio with clear articulation, natural intonation, and smooth transitions suitable for professional and consumer-facing use cases.
  • Expressiveness: Enables fine-grained control of emotional tone, emphasis, pacing, and accent adaptations to fit diverse storytelling and branding needs.

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Technical Architecture

Built upon a transformer-based neural TTS backbone augmented with advanced prosody modeling modules, VibeVoice 1.5B leverages multi-layer self-attention mechanisms and convolutional layers tailored for temporal acoustic feature extraction. The model has been trained on a vast corpus of multi-lingual speech recordings and annotated emotional speech datasets, ensuring robust generalization across speakers and styles.

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API Pricing

  • $0.052 per generated minute

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Key Features and Capabilities

  • Multimodal Input Processing: Accepts rich input formats including textual content with embedded emotional cues and phoneme-level instructions.
  • Expressive Voice Customization: Allows detailed adjustment of speech attributes such as pitch, speed, emotional undertones, and speaker identity variations.
  • Multilingual and Multidialect Support: Produces natural voice outputs across multiple languages and regional dialects with consistent voice quality.

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Use Cases and Applications

  • Virtual Assistants & Chatbots: Engaging, human-like interaction for customer support and digital companions.
  • Audiobook & Podcast Narration: Dynamic voice performances with character differentiation and emotion.
  • Gaming & Animation: Realistic character voices with style flexibility for immersive storytelling.
  • Accessibility Tools: High-quality screen reader voices with customizable expressiveness to enhance user experience.
  • Content Localization: Fast, natural voice dubbing across languages to support global distribution.

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Code Sample

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Comparative Analysis

vs Eleven Music: While Eleven Music specializes in AI-driven music generation with complex composition capabilities, VibeVoice excels in natural and expressive voice synthesis, focusing on spoken audio rather than music.

vs Suno AI: Compared to Suno AI’s music generation features, VibeVoice’s strength lies in superior speech quality, more in-depth prosody control, and multilingual voice delivery designed for conversational contexts rather than musical content.

vs Udio: Udio targets simple audio production with limited voice synthesis. VibeVoice offers significantly higher fidelity, detailed emotional variation, and broader application support for professional voice generation needs.

vs MusicAI Sandbox: MusicAI Sandbox focuses on creative music experimentation. In contrast, VibeVoice prioritizes realistic spoken voice output with advanced fine-tuning options for diverse vocal characteristics and styles.

vs AIMusic.fm: AIMusic.fm largely automates music creation with limited customization. VibeVoice provides granular control over speech parameters and extensive style adaptability tailored for speech-centric projects.

Use cases

  • Virtual Assistants & Chatbots: Engaging, human-like interaction for customer support and digital companions.
  • Audiobook & Podcast Narration: Dynamic voice performances with character differentiation and emotion.
  • Gaming & Animation: Realistic character voices with style flexibility for immersive storytelling.
  • Accessibility Tools: High-quality screen reader voices with customizable expressiveness to enhance user experience.
  • Content Localization: Fast, natural voice dubbing across languages to support global distribution.

How to use VibeVoice 1.5B API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to vibevoice.
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/tts",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY},
    json={
      "model": "vibevoice",
      "text": "Hello from AI/ML API"
    },
)
print(r.json()["audio"])  # URL to the generated audio
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/tts", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "vibevoice",
    "text": "Hello from AI/ML API"
  }),
});
const { audio } = await r.json();
console.log(audio); // URL to the generated audio
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/tts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"vibevoice","text":"Hello from AI/ML API"}'

# the JSON response contains "audio" — a URL to the generated speech

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

VibeVoice 1.5B API Pricing

TypePrice
Output
$0.0008667 / sec

VibeVoice 1.5B Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreWhat it measuresSourceRetrieved
TTS Arena
954
Human preference Elo from blind pairwise listening comparisons of speech samples, measured independently by Artificial AnalysisSourceSeptember 28, 2026

VibeVoice 1.5B vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
$0.0008667 / sec
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$130 / 1M characters
$130 / 1M
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$130 / 1M characters
$0.13 / 1M tokens
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$78 / 1M characters
$0.078 / 1M tokens
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$13 / 1M characters
$0.013 / 1M tokens
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Frequently asked questions

VibeVoice 1.5B takes text as input and returns audio.

VibeVoice 1.5B is priced at $0.0008667 / sec.

VibeVoice 1.5B is billed per generation — a fixed charge per output rather than by prompt length.

VibeVoice 1.5B was built by Microsoft.

Send a request to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/tts with vibevoice as the model id.

Yes. VibeVoice 1.5B is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.

It is designed for generating multi-speaker dialogue with natural-sounding voices in an efficient text-to-speech pipeline.

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