Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground

Simon Willison's Weblog · 10h ago
Model Releases Audio & Voice

How-To How to actually use this

What changed: Google released two new Gemini TTS models with a playground that lets you generate speech from text using over 2,000 voices or a custom voice cloned from a 30-second sample.

How to use it:

  1. Go to the Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground and paste your text.
  2. Choose a voice from the library or upload a 30-second audio sample to create a custom voice.
  3. Select either gemini-3.8-flash-tts or gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts and generate the audio.
  4. Download or copy the resulting speech file.

Good for: developers testing TTS voices for apps or content creators needing custom voiceovers.

Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second audio sample of your voice or a voice you have the rights to use". I vibe coded this bring-your-own-key playground interface with GPT-6…

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