I ran the same prompt for a London Estuary accent, a Newcastle accent and an Exeter, Devon accent – all three audio files are now embedded in my blog post
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Google Gemini Flash TTS Model Demonstrates Advanced Text-to-Speech
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The example prompt for Google's new Gemini Flash TTS text-to-speed model is a lot https://
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Physion-Eval: Benchmarking Physical Realism in AI-Generated Videos
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How physically realistic are our AI-generated videos? Physion Labs, Stanford University, MIT, Harvard University, and Character AI introduce Physion-Eval. This new benchmark uses expert human reasoning to meticulously diagnose and explain physical realism failures in
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OCR Models Struggle with Non-Latin Unicode Scripts Benchmark
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GlotOCR Bench OCR Models Still Struggle Beyond a Handful of Unicode Scripts paper: https://
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Single Image Transforms Into Immersive AI World
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Turns a single image into a world. https://t.co/LVVy3lgmgq
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 15 avril 2026Turns a single image into a world.
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: Advanced Speech Synthesis Across 70 Languages
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS released.
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 15 avril 2026
Highlight: highly controllable speech via simple text prompts, more natural voices, and support for 70+ languages. Nice one https://t.co/4V8MhXmIxc pic.twitter.com/MsvCMdWhLRGemini 3.1 Flash TTS released. Highlight: highly controllable speech via simple text prompts, more natural voices, and support for 70+ languages. Nice one
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Audio Tags Flexibility Explored
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[excitedly] I've been having fun with Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, the audio tags are really flexible, you can do so much with them.
— fofr (@fofrAI) 15 avril 2026
[like dracula] I can't believe things like that just work. https://t.co/847vOEP1kd pic.twitter.com/PpfKMB9Dsw[excitedly] I've been having fun with Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, the audio tags are really flexible, you can do so much with them. [like dracula] I can't believe things like that just work.
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Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Shows Strong Progress on TTS
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The progress from 2.5 to 3.1 has been super strong! Excited to see this much improvement for a Flash model. Learn more in our blog: https://
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS transforms scripts into studio-quality narration
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS is rolling out in Google Vids and is available today in preview via the Gemini API and in @GoogleAIStudio
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: Advanced Text-to-Speech Model Launches
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Introducing Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS 🗣️, our latest text to speech model with scene direction, speaker level specificity, audio tags, more natural + expressive voices, and support for 70 different languages.
— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) 15 avril 2026
Available via our new audio playground in AI Studio and in the Gemini API! pic.twitter.com/5PpBdhQMNgIntroducing Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS , our latest text to speech model with scene direction, speaker level specificity, audio tags, more natural + expressive voices, and support for 70 different languages. Available via our new audio playground in AI Studio and in the Gemini API!