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None of the four Google Cloud incidents since 8 August (20 August, 1 September, 8 and 9 October, and the europe-west2 incident of 20 October, which listed Speech-to-Text among 38 products) names Text-to-Speech. The public page shows only broad incidents, so clean is read with that limit (30). Quotas published with numbers, 1,000 requests a minute for most voices, 200 for Chirp 3, 500 for Studio, 100 concurrent streams and 100 long-audio requests a minute (15). The quotas page (last updated 26 October 2026) says nothing about the error a breach returns or how to back off, read as google-speech-to-text was (0). A 99.9 per cent monthly SLA with credits of 10, 25 and 50 per cent, read on 6 November (10). Chirp 3 HD and Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro TTS are GA, with Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite in preview (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 85.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes." }, { "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 80, "points": 13, "reason": "Discovery document revision 20260827 with typed methods and 26 schemas, and protocol buffers for gRPC (25). No llms.txt found (0). The Chirp 3 HD and Gemini-TTS pages say which voices suit which use and list formats and limits, but the reference doesn't say when to choose streaming or long audio (15 of 20). Typed messages with enums for encoding and gender and required fields (15). Samples in several languages, standard status codes with little method-specific error detail (10 of 15). Versioned v1 and v1beta1 with dated release notes (15). Total 80.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 65, "points": 10.56, "reason": "API reading of the checklist. Audio returns Base64 in JSON or streams over gRPC, with encoding, sample rate and timepoints selectable (15 of 25). `voices.list` filters by language code with no paging, and operations list with page tokens (15 of 20). Standard gRPC status codes with messages, generic rather than TTS-specific (15 of 20). Synthesis is stateless and long audio runs as an operation, with no idempotency key (10 of 20). A first call needs a project, billing, OAuth credentials and a voice, and Cloud Storage for long audio. Official client libraries in many languages, of which Python and Node were checked (10 of 15). Total 65.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 80, "points": 14, "reason": "Model reading of the checklist, with training and retention in place of the least-privilege and injection lines. OAuth 2.0 with service accounts and IAM roles per project (30). The discovery document lists `access_token`, `oauth_token` and `key` as query parameters, so 10 off, as every Google API listing in this run (20 of 30). The data logging page says Google doesn't log any customer Cloud TTS text or audio (20). The service is stateless and keeps no content (15). Because it is stateless, Data Access audit logs don't apply, leaving admin activity only (5 of 15). Valid security.txt, Google's vulnerability reward programme, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and public Cloud security bulletins, as on google-speech-to-text (20). Total 80.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 20, "points": 2.5, "reason": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-character and per-token prices for every voice family published without a login (20). Monthly free characters (1 million for Chirp 3 HD, 4 million for Standard and WaveNet) need billing enabled, which needs a card (0). A person creates a project and billing account in a browser (0). Total 20.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored." }, { "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 25, "points": 2.19, "reason": "Read as a model. The newest release note is still 30 December 2025 (Chirp 3 HD in yue-HK), 311 days ago, and `gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview` appears on the Gemini-TTS page with no dated note (0). In the 90 days from 8 August the Python client shipped 2.38.0 on 1 October, whose only change declares Python 3.15 support, which counts half and can't set the recency line (0). Release notes, a public issue tracker and paid support (10 of 15). Official client libraries, Python at 2.38.0 and Node at 7.2.0 (10 of 15). Package CI not checked (5 of 10). Total 25.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 87, "points": 7.61, "note": "editorial 75, provenance 98", "reason": "Closed service under the Google Cloud terms, with Apache-2.0 clients (15). The data logging page, the terms and the privacy notice agree that TTS text and audio aren't logged, and a DPA and sub-processor list exist, as read for google-speech-to-text (25 of 30). Release notes mark preview and GA, and the Cloud terms carry notice before a GA capability is discontinued, but Gemini-TTS is moving to the Agent Platform API with no dated notice for the Cloud TTS models (15 of 20). Regional endpoints (global, us, eu and others) and a public sub-processor list (20). Total 75.", "checked": "2026-11-06" } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-11-06", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "API reading of the checklist. Audio returns Base64 in JSON or streams over gRPC, with encoding, sample rate and timepoints selectable (15 of 25). `voices.list` filters by language code with no paging, and operations list with page tokens (15 of 20). Standard gRPC status codes with messages, generic rather than TTS-specific (15 of 20). Synthesis is stateless and long audio runs as an operation, with no idempotency key (10 of 20). A first call needs a project, billing, OAuth credentials and a voice, and Cloud Storage for long audio. Official client libraries in many languages, of which Python and Node were checked (10 of 15). Total 65.", "maintenance": "Read as a model. The newest release note is still 30 December 2025 (Chirp 3 HD in yue-HK), 311 days ago, and `gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview` appears on the Gemini-TTS page with no dated note (0). In the 90 days from 8 August the Python client shipped 2.38.0 on 1 October, whose only change declares Python 3.15 support, which counts half and can't set the recency line (0). Release notes, a public issue tracker and paid support (10 of 15). Official client libraries, Python at 2.38.0 and Node at 7.2.0 (10 of 15). Package CI not checked (5 of 10). Total 25.", "payments": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-character and per-token prices for every voice family published without a login (20). Monthly free characters (1 million for Chirp 3 HD, 4 million for Standard and WaveNet) need billing enabled, which needs a card (0). A person creates a project and billing account in a browser (0). Total 20.", "reliability": "Google Cloud status page with a per-product history (20). None of the four Google Cloud incidents since 8 August (20 August, 1 September, 8 and 9 October, and the europe-west2 incident of 20 October, which listed Speech-to-Text among 38 products) names Text-to-Speech. The public page shows only broad incidents, so clean is read with that limit (30). Quotas published with numbers, 1,000 requests a minute for most voices, 200 for Chirp 3, 500 for Studio, 100 concurrent streams and 100 long-audio requests a minute (15). The quotas page (last updated 26 October 2026) says nothing about the error a breach returns or how to back off, read as google-speech-to-text was (0). A 99.9 per cent monthly SLA with credits of 10, 25 and 50 per cent, read on 6 November (10). Chirp 3 HD and Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro TTS are GA, with Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite in preview (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 85.", "schema": "Discovery document revision 20260827 with typed methods and 26 schemas, and protocol buffers for gRPC (25). No llms.txt found (0). The Chirp 3 HD and Gemini-TTS pages say which voices suit which use and list formats and limits, but the reference doesn't say when to choose streaming or long audio (15 of 20). Typed messages with enums for encoding and gender and required fields (15). Samples in several languages, standard status codes with little method-specific error detail (10 of 15). Versioned v1 and v1beta1 with dated release notes (15). Total 80.", "security": "Model reading of the checklist, with training and retention in place of the least-privilege and injection lines. OAuth 2.0 with service accounts and IAM roles per project (30). The discovery document lists `access_token`, `oauth_token` and `key` as query parameters, so 10 off, as every Google API listing in this run (20 of 30). The data logging page says Google doesn't log any customer Cloud TTS text or audio (20). The service is stateless and keeps no content (15). Because it is stateless, Data Access audit logs don't apply, leaving admin activity only (5 of 15). Valid security.txt, Google's vulnerability reward programme, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and public Cloud security bulletins, as on google-speech-to-text (20). Total 80.", "transparency": "Closed service under the Google Cloud terms, with Apache-2.0 clients (15). The data logging page, the terms and the privacy notice agree that TTS text and audio aren't logged, and a DPA and sub-processor list exist, as read for google-speech-to-text (25 of 30). Release notes mark preview and GA, and the Cloud terms carry notice before a GA capability is discontinued, but Gemini-TTS is moving to the Agent Platform API with no dated notice for the Cloud TTS models (15 of 20). Regional endpoints (global, us, eu and others) and a public sub-processor list (20). Total 75." }, "sources": [ { "what": "release notes", "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/release-notes", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "quotas and limits", "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/quotas", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "Gemini-TTS", "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/gemini-tts", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "Chirp 3 HD voices", "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/chirp3-hd", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "data logging", "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/data-logging", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "pricing", "url": "https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "SLA", "url": "https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/sla", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "discovery document", "url": "https://texttospeech.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "status incidents", "url": "https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents.json", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "Python client changelog", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/main/packages/google-cloud-texttospeech/CHANGELOG.md", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "Python client releases", "url": "https://pypi.org/rss/project/google-cloud-texttospeech/releases.xml", "seen": "2026-11-06" } ], "openQuestions": [ "PyPI's JSON API for the client library, which pypi.org/robots.txt disallows, was fetched once by mistake on 6 November. Release dates were re-read from the allowed PyPI RSS feed, and nothing taken only from the JSON is used.", "unchecked: whether quota breaches return 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED with retry guidance specific to TTS", "unchecked: when `gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview` was added, since no release note names it" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Cloud TTS has a typed discovery document, a 99.9 per cent SLA, no logging of text or audio, and voices from $4 to $160 per million characters. Its release notes stop at 30 December 2025, the newest Gemini TTS models ship only on the Agent Platform API, and tokens can travel in the URL.", "bestFor": "Teams already on Google Cloud wanting many languages, SSML and an SLA.", "strengths": [ "Google says it doesn't log any customer Cloud TTS text or audio, and the service is stateless", "99.9 per cent monthly uptime SLA with financial credits", "Text-to-Speech appears in none of the Google Cloud incidents since 8 August 2026", "Discovery document and gRPC protos type every method", "Monthly free allowances of 1 million Chirp 3 HD and 4 million Standard or WaveNet characters" ], "weaknesses": [ "No release note since 30 December 2025, though a Gemini 3.1 TTS preview model is listed", "Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS is GA only on the Agent Platform API, not the Cloud TTS API", "The discovery document accepts tokens and keys as URL query parameters", "Billing with a card is needed even for the free allowance", "No llms.txt, and no guidance on quota errors or backoff" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send OAuth tokens in the Authorization header, never as `access_token` or `key` in the URL", "Use `synthesizeLongAudio` with a Cloud Storage bucket for long text, and `text:synthesize` for short replies", "Pick Chirp 3 HD for natural voices with SSML, and Gemini-TTS when the delivery needs prompt steering", "Check whether the Gemini TTS model you want is on the Cloud TTS API or only on the Agent Platform API", "Stay within 200 requests a minute on Chirp 3 voices, which have their own quota" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 25, "payments": 20, "reliability": 85, "schema": 80, "security": 80, "transparency": 75 }, "provenanceScore": 98, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 }, "scoreHistory": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "grade": "B", "kind": "listed", "method": "0.7", "score": 66.9 } ] }, "connect": { "install": "pip install google-cloud-texttospeech" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.tts", "tool": "https://letme.dev/google-cloud-tts" }, "sameCompany": [ "gemini-api", "vertex-ai", "gemini-embedding", "vertex-ai-tuning", "cloud-run-gpus", "google-model-armor", "google-imagen", "google-veo", "google-lyria", "google-speech-to-text", "gemini-live", "google-adk", "google-memory-bank", "google-secret-manager", "google-cloud-document-ai", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "firebase-cloud-messaging", "google-cloud-storage", "google-drive-api", "gemini-enterprise", "gemini-cli", "google-search-console", "google-ads-api", "google-forms", "google-sheets-api", "gmail-api", "google-people-api" ], "notable": [ "Discovery document revision 20260827 lists `text.synthesize`, `voices.list` and `projects.locations.synthesizeLongAudio` with operations, and 26 schemas (https://texttospeech.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1)", "Gemini-TTS models on the Cloud TTS API are `gemini-2.5-flash-tts` and `gemini-2.5-pro-tts` (GA since 30 September 2025), `gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-tts` and `gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview` (https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/gemini-tts)", "The Gemini-TTS page says Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS are generally available through the Agent Platform API and not the Cloud Text-to-Speech API, with a migration guide", "Quotas of 1,000 requests a minute per project for most voices, 200 for Chirp 3, 500 for Studio and 100 concurrent streaming sessions (https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/quotas)", "The data logging page says Google doesn't log any customer Cloud TTS text or audio (https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/data-logging)", "99.9 per cent monthly uptime SLA with credits of 10 to 50 per cent (https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/sla)" ], "area": "voice", "details": [ { "label": "Surface listed", "value": "The Cloud Text-to-Speech API at texttospeech.googleapis.com, read from docs.cloud.google.com (release notes, quotas, Gemini-TTS, Chirp 3 HD and data logging pages), the discovery document, cloud.google.com pricing and SLA pages and status.cloud.google.com on 6 November 2026. No project was made and no request was sent" }, { "label": "Voices", "value": "Chirp 3 HD, Gemini-TTS (single and multi-speaker, prompt-steered), Studio, Neural2, WaveNet, Standard and Polyglot (preview). Chirp 3 instant custom voice clones a voice at $60 per million characters" }, { "label": "Interfaces", "value": "`text:synthesize` (REST and gRPC), bidirectional streaming synthesis over gRPC, and `synthesizeLongAudio` as a long-running operation writing to Cloud Storage" }, { "label": "SSML", "value": "Supported on the classic voices, and on Chirp 3 HD since 17 October 2025 for `\u003cphoneme\u003e`, `\u003cp\u003e`, `\u003cs\u003e`, `\u003csub\u003e` and `\u003csay-as\u003e`" }, { "label": "Same company", "value": "Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is listed as google-speech-to-text, and Gemini's own speech output through the Developer API is part of the gemini-api and gemini-live listings" } ], "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Chirp 3 HD voices", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 30, "note": "after 1 million free characters a month" }, { "item": "Neural2 voices", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 16, "note": "after 1 million free characters a month" }, { "item": "Standard and WaveNet voices", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 4, "note": "after 4 million free characters a month" }, { "item": "Studio voices", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 160 }, { "item": "Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS audio output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 10, "note": "25 audio tokens a second; text input $0.50 per million tokens" } ], "taskCosts": { "units": [ { "task": "narrate-script", "name": "Narrate a 9,000-character script", "unit": "1m-chars", "quantity": 0.009, "lowUsd": 0.04, "highUsd": 1.44, "lowItem": "Standard and WaveNet voices", "highItem": "Studio voices" } ], "note": "The quantity times this listing's own unit price, its cheapest item to its dearest. Plans, minimums and free allowances aren't counted." }, "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "domainNote": "The endpoint is on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. google.com was registered in 1997.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cloud.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.google.com", "changelog": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Cloud TTS is offered under the Google Cloud terms, with Google LLC as the contracting party, as on google-speech-to-text.", "docs.cloud.google.com and cloud.google.com robots.txt allow the documentation, pricing and SLA pages read. status.cloud.google.com/robots.txt allows all paths.", "No llms.txt was found at docs.cloud.google.com/llms.txt or under /text-to-speech/." ], "score": 98, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "Google LLC", "points": 20, "max": 20, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "google.com, registered 1997-09-15 (29 years)", "points": 15, "max": 15, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "google.com", "points": 15, "max": 15, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "read, states 7 of the 7 things a reader expects", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "read, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points", "points": 7.3, "max": 10, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "status.cloud.google.com", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": "published", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "security.txt", "value": "valid", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "People named", "value": "6 named with their role, 1 with a public profile", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Support route", "value": "help pages, a community", "points": 5, "max": 5, "state": "ok" } ], "policies": [ { "kind": "terms", "url": "https://cloud.google.com/terms", "state": "read", "readAt": "2026-10-08", "statedDate": "2026-09-02", "words": 13806, "points": 10, "max": 10, "expected": [ { "key": "terms.date", "label": "Gives the date it was last updated", "found": true, "quote": "(Last modified September 2, 2026)", "says": "Last updated 2026-09-02" }, { "key": "terms.law", "label": "Names the governing law or courts", "found": true, "quote": "federal government entity, then the following applies: ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICES WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EXCLUDING ITS CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES.", "says": "The law of the United States of America" }, { "key": "terms.liability", "label": "States a limit on its liability", "found": true, "quote": "…GWS Services, SecOps 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