What is Atlas TTS?
Atlas TTS is a fine-tuned text-to-speech voice model with a catalogue of natural, expressive English voices (list them live via/v1/models). It supports inline audio tags — laughs, sighs, breaths, pauses, and per-sentence emotional styles — so generated speech sounds like a performance, not a readout.
Every voice is served through two front doors:
HTTP API
Drop-in OpenAI-compatible
POST /v1/audio/speech. Point the OpenAI SDK at our base URL and it just works.Streaming WebSocket
Low-latency, sentence-by-sentence audio frames for conversational and real-time apps.
Voices reference
Configuration parameters, environment variables, and usage examples.
Capabilities
- Expressive delivery — inline event tags (
<|laugh|>,<|sigh|>,<|pause|>…) and sentence-level style wraps (excited, whispers, sarcastic, accents, …). - OpenAI compatibility — use the official OpenAI Python or Node SDK unchanged; only the base URL and API key differ.
- Real-time streaming — a WebSocket protocol that returns one audio frame per sentence as it is synthesized.
- Multiple output formats —
wav,mp3,pcm,opus, andflac. - Per-request observability — every HTTP response carries
x-upstream-msandx-gateway-mstiming headers.
Use cases
- Conversational agents and voice assistants that need low first-audio latency.
- Content production: narration, voiceovers, and character work with emotional range.
- Product experiences that read dynamic text aloud with natural pacing.