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Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSAI text to speech

Gemini's lighter speech model: 30 voices, directed in plain words. On Leap, it sits beside 174 other models in one studio.

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AI text to speech

Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS at a glance

Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS is a text-to-speech model from Google. It makes speech from your text.

Made by
Google
Makes
Speech
Starts from
Your text
Voices
30 to choose from
Text
Up to 4,000 characters
Price
$0.0513 per 1,000 characters
On Leap since
October 6, 2026
Updated
October 6, 2026
  1. 01Write the words, pick a voice
  2. 02See the exact price, then press go
  3. 03Keep it in your library, or take it further

Pick the right one

Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and its siblings

ModelBest forPrice per run
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS (this page)Gemini's lighter speech model: 30 voices, directed in plain words.$0.0513 per 1,000 characters
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSGoogle's speech model: describe the delivery in style instructions.$0.06075 per 1,000 characters

Start with an idea

Three ways to try Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS

Why Leap

Why creators make it on Leap

  1. 01

    Every top model, side by side

    175 models from Black Forest Labs, Google, ByteDance, Kuaishou, Alibaba and more, side by side in one studio.

    See the models
  2. 02

    One click, or full control

    Character Studio, effects and recipes write the prompt for you. Or write your own for any model.

    See the tools
  3. 03

    Your work stays yours

    Everything you make stays in your library while your account is active, and you own what you make here.

    See what people make
  4. 04

    One balance for everything

    The studio, the API and your agents spend the same balance, and every run shows its price before it starts.

    How pricing works

Questions

Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, answered

What is Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS?
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS is a text-to-speech model from Google. Gemini's lighter speech model: 30 voices, directed in plain words. On Leap it runs in one studio beside every other top model, with one account.
Which voices can I use?
30 voices, among them Achernar, Achird, Algenib, Algieba and Alnilam. You can hear each one in the studio before you run it.
How much text can it read in one run?
Up to 4,000 characters. You pay for the characters you send, with the price shown before you press go.
How is it different from Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS?
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: Gemini's lighter speech model: 30 voices, directed in plain words. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: Google's speech model: describe the delivery in style instructions. They all run in the same studio, so you can try one prompt on each.
How much does a run cost?
It costs $0.0513 per 1,000 characters. You see the exact price before you press go, and a run that fails costs nothing.
Is Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS free to try?
No. There is no free credit: you add credit from $5, and your first top-up has no card fee. It costs $0.0513 per 1,000 characters. You pay per run, in dollars, with no subscription.
Can I use what I make commercially?
Yes. You own what you make on Leap, so you can use it commercially, and we never train AI on it. The people and brands shown in a result can still have rights in it; the Terms say more.
Is there an API?
Yes. Leap's REST API runs it as google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts, at the same price per run as the studio, and agents can call it through Leap's MCP server. The request is at the bottom of this page.
Do I need a Google account?
No. Leap sends your request to Google's model and gives you what it makes. One Leap account runs Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and every other model, in the studio, through the API and from your agents.

Your idea, Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS.

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For developers

Run Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS from code

Model ID
google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts
Makes
Voice and sound
Pricing
Per run, quoted first: POST /v1/quotes

Inputs

What the model takes. Leave out anything with a default.

Texttext
Text, up to 4,000 characters, required
Voicevoice
Achernar, Achird, Algenib, Algieba, Alnilam, Aoede, Autonoe, Callirrhoe, Charon, Despina, Enceladus, Erinome, Fenrir, Gacrux, Iapetus, Kore, Laomedeia, Leda, Orus, Puck, Pulcherrima, Rasalgethi, Sadachbia, Sadaltager, Schedar, Sulafat, Umbriel, Vindemiatrix, Zephyr, Zubenelgenubi. Default: Kore
Style instructionssettings.style_instructions
Text, up to 1,000 charactersHow to say it: the tone, pace, accent or character. It is not read aloud.

The request

The same envelope for every model; only the model and its input change. With prefer: wait=60 the answer holds the result when the run finishes within a minute; a longer one is read again by its ID. Agents can call it through the MCP server at app.tryleap.ai/api/mcp.

curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations \  -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY" \  -H "content-type: application/json" \  -H "prefer: wait=60" \  -d '{    "model": "google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts",    "input": {      "text": "A paper boat drifting down a rainy street at dusk"    }  }' # Video often outlasts the wait and answers "queued" or "running".# Put its "id" in GENERATION_ID and read it again until it is done:# curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations/$GENERATION_ID -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY"