Optimizing for Low Latency

There are several ways that you can generate speech from text as quickly as possible. This page describes some of the techniques that you can use to optimize for low latency.

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Use streaming synthesis

Streaming synthesis is generally the fastest way to generate speech from text. It will return audio as soon as it is available, rather than waiting for the entire audio to be generated. All of our client libraries support streaming synthesis.

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Use wav format instead of mp3

The wav format is faster to generate than mp3. The default for synthesis in our SDKs and REST API is mp3, so you will need to explicitly pass in format=wav to use wav format.