Best audio AI models

12 audio models compared on specs, pricing and community reviews.

  • Gemini 2.5 Pro — google: Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google's flagship model with native multimodality and a 1M token context window, featuring built-in 'thinking' for complex reasoning. It leads
  • Whisper-1 — openai: Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model trained on diverse multilingual audio. It's available open-source and via OpenAI's API. It handles transcr
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash — google: Gemini 2.5 Flash balances speed, cost and reasoning quality with a configurable thinking budget. It supports a 1M token context and full multimodal input. It's
  • Veo 3.1 — google: Google's Veo 3.1 is a cutting-edge generative AI model that produces high-quality video with native, synchronized audio. Supporting resolutions up to 1080p, it
  • GPT-Realtime 2.1 — openai: GPT-Realtime 2.1 by OpenAI represents a major leap in conversational AI, offering native speech-to-speech interaction with extremely low latency. Combining adva
  • Sora 2 — openai: Sora 2 is OpenAI's cutting-edge text-to-video generator that seamlessly integrates high-fidelity synchronized audio directly into its video outputs. Building up
  • Phi-4-multimodal — microsoft: Phi-4-multimodal is a 5.6B parameter model that unifies text, image and audio understanding in a single small model with a 128k context window. It's released un
  • Eleven Multilingual v2 — elevenlabs: Eleven Multilingual v2 generates lifelike speech across 29+ languages with emotional expressiveness and voice cloning support. It's used broadly for narration,
  • Whisper large-v3-turbo — openai: Whisper large-v3-turbo is a pruned decoder version of large-v3 offering significantly faster transcription with minimal accuracy loss. It's released open-source
  • Veo 3 — google: Google's Veo 3 is a flagship generative model that seamlessly translates text and image prompts into high-definition video. By incorporating native audio genera
  • ElevenLabs v3 — elevenlabs: ElevenLabs v3 is a state-of-the-art audio generation model specializing in high-fidelity text-to-speech and voice cloning. It offers unprecedented control over
  • GPT-4o — openai: GPT-4o is OpenAI's natively multimodal model supporting text, image and audio inputs with fast, low-latency responses. It powers ChatGPT and the API with a 128k