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Rime

Ranked #8 of 11 models by blind A/B votes against a real human recording. Humanness 100 means listeners can no longer tell it from the person.

Standings as of August 31, 2026 · refreshed every 5 minutes

73
humanness (0–100)
75
live blind rounds
2213ms
warm first-audio
$0.02
per minute (list)

Hear it

Thanks for calling — I can get that rescheduled for Thursday morning. Does that work for you?

Background

Rime is a San Francisco startup focused on conversational voices for real-time agents; Arcana v3 is its naturalness-first model with its own 269-voice catalog. Fast models are its specialty — Arcana trades some speed for realism.

On the board

#8Rime2213ms73
#9Inworld TTS129ms71

Live results — the numbers move as votes land. Latency is measured at the Speko gateway (warm first-audio, n=30); price is the provider's published rate. Method details on the methodology page; raw standings as open data (CC BY 4.0).