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# Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS

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## [Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS](https://ailoot.ai/models/en/google-gemini-3-8-flash-lite-tts/)

Google Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS turns exact scripts into speech for read-aloud features, routine narration and large volumes of spoken content. It supports 101 languages, selectable voices and delivery control through separate style metadata, with inline tags for brief pauses and vocal events.

- [**Ailoot Ultra · Speech** `POST /v1/audio/speech` `google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts`](https://ailoot.ai/models/en/google-gemini-3-8-flash-lite-tts/#method-0)

About the model

This description covers the model’s capabilities. Available in Ailoot inputs, outputs and options are listed for the selected method below.

Google Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS is the throughput-focused member of Google’s 3.8 text-to-speech family. It takes a written script and produces spoken audio. Google positions it for read-aloud features, everyday single-speaker narration, high-volume audio production and the speech-output stage of voice-agent systems. A useful deliverable is an article read in a consistent voice, a spoken product explanation or a set of short instructional recordings. The script should already contain the words that the listener needs to hear.

The 3.8 family separates the transcript from performance directions. Keep the spoken text verbatim and place sustained emotion, pace, volume or delivery style in speech metadata. A warm introduction, an urgent instruction and a quiet closing can each have a short style description attached to their own turn. Text such as “Say cheerfully” inside the transcript can itself be spoken. Speaker names belong in the speaker metadata rather than as labels in the audible script. This preparation is particularly important when reusing prompts written for Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS.

Use inline angle-bracket tags for brief events at a specific point: a breath, laugh, cough, sigh or pause. For example, the transcript “The next step is simple. \<short pause\> Choose your preferred language.” keeps the intended pause next to the words it affects. Put a sustained whispered delivery in the style description instead of repeatedly adding event tags. Google recommends English tag names even for scripts in other languages. These controls direct the voice; an applause track or a door slam calls for separate sound production rather than a vocal-event tag.

Google lists 101 supported languages for this edition, including English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Indonesian and Vietnamese. Write the finished script in the intended language, including the desired form of names, abbreviations and numbers. As editorial preparation, spell out an ambiguous abbreviation or the intended reading of a number when the listener must hear one particular form. Listen to an initial passage containing the difficult names and transitions before treating a long recording as finished. A language count does not make all regional pronunciations interchangeable.

The manufacturer supports prebuilt voices, an extended voice library, designed voice personas and voice replication. Select the voice identity separately from temporary acting directions. Reuse that identity and a compact delivery description across sections when the narration should remain consistent. In the documented two-speaker configuration, give each turn an explicit speaker that matches one of the two configured prebuilt voices. Google’s guide handles multi-character scenes with designed or replicated voices by generating the individual turns. This distinction matters when planning a dialogue rather than a single narrator.

For ordinary completed requests, Google’s 3.8 guide specifies WAV audio with a RIFF header, containing 24 kHz mono, 16-bit signed little-endian PCM. Its streaming configuration instead returns headerless raw PCM chunks by default; the guide also documents raw linear PCM, mu-law and A-law encoding choices. Match playback or editing settings to the actual output format. Renaming headerless PCM to a WAV extension does not add the container information. When assembling separately generated turns, keep the audio format consistent and treat each complete WAV as a file with its own header.

The exact model page lists Gemini API limits of 8,192 input tokens and 16,384 output tokens. Audio tokens do not express a fixed number of spoken seconds. Prepare long material in meaningful sections, retaining the same voice and style brief and listening at the joins. These are the manufacturer’s documented serving limits for this model; they describe a different quantity from a generic catalogue context field. Text is the input and audio is the output, so script drafting, translation and transcription are separate preparation or follow-up tasks.

Flash-Lite shares the 3.8 request structure with Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS. The practical choice concerns the performance required: Flash-Lite is aimed at rapid, repeated production, while Flash TTS is the creative tier for difficult pronunciation, nuanced acting and broader dialect coverage. A routine help article and a dramatic two-character scene place different demands on the voice. Check the actual recording for omitted or repeated words, pronunciation, pacing and audible changes between segments before using it in the final listening experience.

**Ailoot Ultra · Speech** `POST /v1/audio/speech` `google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts`

[`google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts`](https://ailoot.ai/models/en/#m=google%2Fgemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts&route=Ultra&caller=google%2Fgemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts&fmt=speech)

Google /`google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts`

### Overview

Google Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS turns exact scripts into speech for read-aloud features, routine narration and large volumes of spoken content. It supports 101 languages, selectable voices and delivery control through separate style metadata, with inline tags for brief pauses and vocal events.

Accepted inputs

Text

Results

Audio

### Available in Ailoot · inputs & methods

**Ailoot Ultra · Speech** `POST /v1/audio/speech`

Input types

`text`

Output types

`audio`

| Field | Type | Requirement | Values & limits | Default |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Field`model` | Type`string` | RequirementRequired | Values & limits google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts | Default— |
| Field`input` | Type`string` | RequirementRequired | Values & limits Minimum length: 1 | Default— |
| Field`voice` | Type`string` | RequirementRequired | Values & limits Zephyr, Puck, Charon, Kore, Fenrir, Leda, Orus, Aoede, Callirrhoe, Autonoe, Enceladus, Iapetus, Umbriel, Algieba, Despina, Erinome, Algenib, Rasalgethi, Laomedeia, Achernar, Alnilam, Schedar, Gacrux, Pulcherrima, Achird, Zubenelgenubi, Vindemiatrix, Sadachbia, Sadaltager, Sulafat Minimum length: 1 | Default— |
| Field`response_format` | Type`string` | RequirementOptional | Values & limits mp3, pcm | Defaultpcm |
| Field`provider` | Type`object` | RequirementOptional | Values & limits | Default— |

Method parameters and lifecycle

| Parameter | Contract |
| --- | --- |
| Parameter`content_type` | Contractapplication/json |
| Parameter`required` | Contractmodel, input, voice |
| Parameter`material_types` | Contracttext |

Lifecycle: `synchronous_result_then_owned_library`

`GET /v1/media/tasks/{task_id}` · actual returned task\_id or media library record

`GET /v1/media/assets/{asset_id}/content`

`GET /v1/media/assets`

`GET /v1/media/assets/{asset_id}`

### Pricing

Tariff references do not add request options. Supported parameters are listed for the selected method.

Fast mode

Not specified When fast mode is selected

Flex mode

Not specified When flex mode is selected

Maximum reasoning effort

Not specified When maximum reasoning effort uses the default adjustment

#### Ailoot rates

#### Prices by configuration

Match each charge to the conditions shown. Use one rate for each set of alternative configurations.

| Configuration | Rate schedule | Billing unit | Charge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ConfigurationBase token rates | Rate scheduleBase rate | Billing unit— | Charge Input · Input tokens **—** / 1K tokens Output · Output tokens **—** / 1K tokens Input · Cache read **—** / 1K tokens Input · Cache write **—** / 1K tokens Input · Cache write, 1 hour **—** / 1K tokens |
| Configurationinput token | Rate schedule— | Billing unit/ 1K tokens | Charge Input · input token **$0.001** / 1K tokens |
| Configurationoutput token | Rate schedule— | Billing unit/ 1K tokens | Charge Output · output token **$0.012** / 1K tokens |

Ailoot reserves an estimated amount before a request. After the result, it settles the final charge from measured usage. Streaming settlement uses the final usage record. [How reservation and settlement work →](https://ailoot.ai/docs/en/billing/reserve/)

### Example requests

#### Ailoot Ultra · Speech

Use actual input and retain the complete result

```bash
set -eu
: "${AILOOT_API_KEY:?Set your Ailoot API key}"
: "${AILOOT_INPUT_TEXT:?Set the actual documented input value}"
export AILOOT_INPUT_TEXT
python3 - <<'PY_REQUEST'
import json,os
from pathlib import Path
request={'model': 'google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts', 'input': '${ACTUAL_INPUT_TEXT}', 'voice': 'Zephyr'}
request['input']=os.environ['AILOOT_INPUT_TEXT']
Path('request.json').write_text(json.dumps(request,ensure_ascii=False),encoding='utf-8')
PY_REQUEST
curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error https://api.ailoot.ai/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AILOOT_API_KEY" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data-binary @request.json -D response-headers.txt -o response.bin
# Retain the complete response and headers, every actual output, original returned identifiers and all usage fields. Recover the original operation without submitting creation again.
```

### Receive and save results

#### Ailoot Ultra · Speech

Complete binary audio or original audio\_url response, headers and every owned asset.

- `GET /v1/media/tasks/{task_id}`
- `GET /v1/media/assets/{asset_id}/content`
- `GET /v1/media/assets`
- `GET /v1/media/assets/{asset_id}`

Other content reads

Read existing owned assets

```bash
set -eu
: "${AILOOT_API_KEY:?Set your Ailoot API key}"
curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error https://api.ailoot.ai/v1/media/assets \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AILOOT_API_KEY" -o owned-assets.json
# Preserve every returned asset and follow its exact signed content URL. Do not construct a signed token.
```

##### Keep all completed results

Keep every complete returned response, file and content part.

Retain the complete response and headers, every actual output, original returned identifiers and all usage fields. Recover the original operation without submitting creation again.

##### If the original response needs checking

Keep the returned X-Client-Request-ID for reconciliation. Read only actual returned task\_id/asset\_id values or the owned media library; never build a task URL from the operation ID and never resubmit creation.

### Aliases

#### Model aliases

**Ailoot Ultra** [`google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts`](https://ailoot.ai/models/en/#m=google%2Fgemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts&route=Ultra&caller=google%2Fgemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts&fmt=speech)

#### Method path aliases

Use the method paths shown above.

#### Related caller IDs

[`google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts`](https://ailoot.ai/models/en/#m=google%2Fgemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts&route=Ultra&caller=google%2Fgemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts&fmt=speech)

FAQ · Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS

What inputs and results are available?

`POST /v1/audio/speech` · `google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts`: `text` → `audio`

Which fields does the request use?

`POST /v1/audio/speech` · `google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts`: `model`, `input`, `voice`, `response_format`, `provider`

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