Benchmark Almanac

Voice Arena German

ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo 1,052 tops its leaderboard Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 1,034 leads the models we track
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Models generate speech in German. 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 model added
September 2026
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026
7
Entries on its own leaderboard, 2 models we track

ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo tops the leaderboard with 1,052

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. The best model we track is Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, at 1,034.

Bars start at 900.

  1. 1,052 ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo
  2. 1,034 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS
  3. 1,033 Cartesia Sonic-3.6
  4. 1,033 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS
  5. 997 Gradium-TTS
  6. 928 Inworld Realtime TTS 2
  7. 923 Fish Audio Drama 3

Bars start at 900.

  1. 1 ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo 1,052
  2. 2 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 1,034
  3. 3 Cartesia Sonic-3.6 1,033
  4. 4 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS 1,033
  5. 5 Gradium-TTS 997
  6. 6 Inworld Realtime TTS 2 928
  7. 7 Fish Audio Drama 3 923

Source: Official Voice Arena German leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 ElevenLabs Eleven v4 Turbo 1,052 Official leaderboard
2 Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS 1,034 Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
3 Cartesia Sonic-3.6 1,033 Official leaderboard
4 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS 1,033 Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
5 Gradium-TTS 997 Official leaderboard
6 Inworld Realtime TTS 2 928 Official leaderboard
7 Fish Audio Drama 3 923 Official 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
1,033 1,033 1,033 1,034 1,034 1,034 1,033 1,033 1,033 1,034 1,034 1,034

Source: Official Voice Arena German leaderboard

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