---
title: "Convert text to speech by cloning the voice from an audio sample you provide (voice-cloning text-to-speech). Both text and sample are required; the text is limited to 1000 characters and the sample is supplied as a URL or base64 audio that must be at most 15MB, with violations returning HTTP 400. Synchronous: the call blocks until generation finishes and returns a single audio result containing a URL; there is no separate polling step. Credits are charged on success. Use this when you have a reference voice sample to clone; use createSpeechPreset to speak with a built-in named preset voice instead, and createVoice to design a brand-new voice from a text description rather than cloning one. Pass an optional request_id to tag the result so you can locate it later via getAudioResults. Requires an API key (user scope)."
method: POST
path: "/audio/speech"
tags: ["Audio"]
---

# Convert text to speech by cloning the voice from an audio sample you provide (voice-cloning text-to-speech). Both text and sample are required; the text is limited to 1000 characters and the sample is supplied as a URL or base64 audio that must be at most 15MB, with violations returning HTTP 400. Synchronous: the call blocks until generation finishes and returns a single audio result containing a URL; there is no separate polling step. Credits are charged on success. Use this when you have a reference voice sample to clone; use createSpeechPreset to speak with a built-in named preset voice instead, and createVoice to design a brand-new voice from a text description rather than cloning one. Pass an optional request_id to tag the result so you can locate it later via getAudioResults. Requires an API key (user scope).

`POST /audio/speech`

## Request body

- GenerateSpeechPayload — Payload for text-to-speech generation using voice cloning
  - `text` string, required — Text to convert to speech (max 100 words).
  - `sample` string, required — URL or base64-encoded audio sample for voice cloning.
  - `request_id` string — Optional client-provided identifier for this request. Use this to retrieve results later via the results endpoint.

## Response `200`

Success

- AudioResult
  - `url` string — URL to the generated audio file
  - `type` string
  - `duration` number, float
  - `request_id` string
  - `created_at` integer

## Other responses

- `400` — Error

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