Humanness Index™ · TTS model
by Inworld
TTS-1.5-max is the flagship of Inworld's 1.5 generation, launched in late 2025 with P90 first chunk latency under 250 ms across 15 languages.
Standings as of Jun 13, 2026, 00:15 UTC
A real arena clip: a cloned source voice reading a customer support prompt at phone quality.
TTS-1.5-max is the flagship of Inworld's 1.5 generation, launched in late 2025 with P90 first chunk latency under 250 ms across 15 languages. Inworld measured the generation at 30 percent more expressive than its predecessor with a 40 percent lower word error rate, and the 1.5 line reached the top of the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena ahead of Google and ElevenLabs. It targets the quality and speed balance most production agents need.
Sources: docs.inworld.ai
The quality and speed flagship of the 1.5 generation, with a mini sibling for the lowest latency. In our 50 trial streaming benchmark it returned first audio in a median of 337 ms including network time.
Sources: docs.inworld.ai
Standings as of Jun 13, 2026, 00:15 UTC
| Rank | Provider | Model | Humanness | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #13 | Neuphonic | neu_hq | 63 | 276 ms |
| #14 | ElevenLabs | Turbo v2 | 63 | 302 ms |
| #15 | Inworld | TTS-1.5-max | 61 | 337 ms |
| #16 | ElevenLabs | Multilingual v2 | 61 | 1006 ms |
| #17 | ElevenLabs | Flash v2 | 57 | 226 ms |
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