Overview

Blizzard, our default model, is a powerful and expressive text-to-speech model that delivers natural, high-quality voice synthesis with excellent prosody and emotional range.

Note: The Aurora model ID (aurora) is now an alias that routes all requests to Blizzard. As Blizzard has reached production maturity, we’ve consolidated our model offering to provide a single, high-performance solution. This change ensures consistent quality and reliability across all voice synthesis requests.

Model Updates & Changes

Regular Updates

Models receive regular updates and improvements. Most updates are non-breaking and require no changes to your applications.

Breaking Changes

When we need to make breaking changes:

  1. We announce the changes in advance
  2. Provide a deprecation window to update your applications
  3. Document migration steps
  4. Send deprecation notices through the API headers

Model Version Tracking

You can find which specific model version handled your request in the API response headers under X-Model-Version. We recommend logging this value for debugging.

Support & Updates

We’ll notify you about model updates, breaking changes, and deprecation windows through these channels.