Benchmark Almanac

Voice Arena Arabic MSA

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 1,192 leads since September 2026
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 1,204 leads since September 2026
Only in system cards

Models generate speech in Arabic MSA. Listeners compare anonymous clips, and preference votes determine independent language Elo ratings.

Each language has an independent leaderboard. Topic filters stay within its vote pool.

Made by
Voice Arena
Kind
Audio understanding and voice
Level
Everyday
Scored
Ranked by votes
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
All public
Last in a system card
September 2026
Last model added
September 2026
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026
11
Entries on its own leaderboard, 7 models we track
2
System cards report it, from 1 lab

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS leads with 1,192 among models released by September 2026

Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders.

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS leads with 1,204, claims included

Best score per model from every source, including labs’ own numbers and claims Epoch AI collected from reports and papers. Labs pick their own settings, so a claim can beat an independent run of the same model.

The newest model with a score here came out in September 2026, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

Bars start at 800.

  1. 1 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 1,192
  2. 2 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS 1,172
  3. 3 ElevenLabs Eleven v4 1,142
  4. 4 Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS 1,132
  5. 5 ElevenLabs Eleven v3 1,017
  6. 6 MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD 916
  7. 7 GPT-4o Mini TTS 906
  8. 8 SILMA TTS v2 903
  9. 9 Grok TTS 876
  10. 10 Dragon HD Omni 873
  11. 11 Cartesia Sonic-3 872

Source: Official Voice Arena Arabic MSA leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 1,192 Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
2 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS 1,172 Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
3 ElevenLabs Eleven v4 1,142 Official leaderboard
4 Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS 1,132 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
5 ElevenLabs Eleven v3 1,017 Official leaderboard
6 MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD 916 Jan 2026 Official leaderboard
7 GPT-4o Mini TTS 906 Mar 2025 Official leaderboard
8 SILMA TTS v2 903 Official leaderboard
9 Grok TTS 876 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
10 Dragon HD Omni 873 Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
11 Cartesia Sonic-3 872 Official leaderboard
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 1,204 Sep 2026 Lab model card
2 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS 1,181 Sep 2026 Lab model card
3 Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS 1,132 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
4 MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD 916 Jan 2026 Official leaderboard
5 GPT-4o Mini TTS 906 Mar 2025 Official leaderboard
6 Grok TTS 876 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
7 Dragon HD Omni 873 Dec 2025 Official leaderboard

Labs report scores for 2 models in their cards. Switch the scores above to rank them together.

4 models have held number one on the official leaderboard since 2023 4 models have held number one with claims included since 2023

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

OpenAI MiniMax Google DeepMind
Own leaderboard Not tested since Sep 2026

Source: Official Voice Arena Arabic MSA leaderboard

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Reported by the lab in its model card
800 900 1,000 1,100 1,200 1,300 2025 2026 800 900 1,000 1,100 1,200 1,300 2025 2026

Sources: Official Voice Arena Arabic MSA leaderboard and labs’ model cards

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

2 system cards report it, from 1 lab

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
Sep 23, 2026 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS model card 1204 Voice Arena arabic msa, Elo, Gemini speech generation model page Capabilities
Sep 23, 2026 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS model card 1181 Voice Arena arabic msa, Elo, Gemini speech generation model page Capabilities

2 lab claims next to the leaderboard

Each score a lab reported for its own model, beside the same model's best score on the leaderboard. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every benchmark.

Model Lab says Board says Gap
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 1,204 Voice Arena arabic msa, Elo, Gemini speech generation model page 1,192 Leaderboard +12
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS 1,181 Voice Arena arabic msa, Elo, Gemini speech generation model page 1,172 Leaderboard +9

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