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Neuphonic

Neuphonic

neuphonic.com

Neuphonic is a London voice AI startup founded in 2024 by Jiameng Gao and Sohaib Ahmad, focused on low latency text to speech APIs and on-device voice.

Best ranked model
#18 neu_hq
Humanness
41

Standings as of Jul 28, 2026, 02:12 UTC

Neuphonic
Models on the Index
1
Languages
9
Price / 1M chars
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Neuphonic models on the Humanness Index™

RankModelHumannessLatencyLanguagesPrice / 1M chars
#18neu_hq41276 ms9—

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About Neuphonic

Neuphonic is a London voice AI startup founded in 2024 by Jiameng Gao and Sohaib Ahmad, focused on low latency text to speech APIs and on-device voice. It raised a 3M pound pre-seed in October 2024 on the back of a closed beta, and alongside the hosted API it publishes the open source NeuTTS family of on-device speech models with instant cloning.

Sources: thesaasnews.com, github.com

Platform

The hosted API streams over SSE and WebSockets with a per-request language code across nine languages, clones a voice from a short clean sample, and layers a conversational agents product on top. Neuphonic marked version 1.0.0 of the API in August 2025.

Sources: docs.neuphonic.com, docs.neuphonic.com

Neuphonic stats

Languages
91
Price / 1M chars
—No published pricing to cite yet.
  1. docs.neuphonic.com/build-group/languages (checked 2026-06-12) English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, and Urdu.

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