Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS
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Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS. Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS today, a new text-to-speech model that can be directed using prompts.
It's presented via the standard Gemini API using gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview as the model ID, but can only output audio files.
The prompting guide is surprising, to say the least. Here's their example prompt to generate just a few short sentences of audio:
It is 10:00 PM in a glass-walled studio overlooking the moonlit London skyline, but inside, it is blindingly bright. The red "ON AIR" tally light is blazing. Jaz is standing up, not…
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