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# Canopy Labs Orpheus TTS (3B)

Canopy Labs, Orpheus family. Status: current. Type: speech and audio. Released: 2025-03.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | `canopylabs/orpheus-tts-0.1-finetune-prod` |  | https://github.com/canopyai/Orpheus-TTS |
| Hugging Face | `canopylabs/orpheus-3b-0.1-ft` |  | https://huggingface.co/canopylabs/orpheus-3b-0.1-ft |
| Groq | `canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english` | https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/audio/speech | https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech |
| Groq | `canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi` | https://api.groq.com/openai/v1/audio/speech |  |
| Together AI |  |  | https://www.together.ai/models/orpheus-tts |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, audio
- Output: audio
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: apache-2.0

## Where it stands

- Newer speech and audio models in the registry since its release: 98. The 5 newest:
  - NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B-A4B) (2026-10-28) https://postcutoff.com/m/nemotron-3-5-transcribe/
  - Hy-SimulMT-30B-A3B (2026-10-22) https://postcutoff.com/m/hy-simulmt-30b-a3b/
  - Eleven Realtime v1 Max / Mini (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/eleven-realtime-v1-max/
  - Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (+ Mini Transcribe Realtime 3) (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-mini-transcribe-3/
  - Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (2026-10-20) https://postcutoff.com/m/voxtral-small-transcribe-3/
- Weights are public under a permissive licence (Apache-2.0).

## What stands out

- LLM-backbone TTS with emotion tags: Llama-3B-based speech LLM trained on 100k+ h English; tags <laugh>, <chuckle>, <sigh>, <cough>, <sniffle>, <groan>, <yawn>, <gasp>; ~200 ms streaming latency (~100 ms with input streaming); zero-shot cloning via pretrained model. Source: https://github.com/canopyai/Orpheus-TTS

## Notes

8 English preset voices (tara, leah, jess, leo, dan, mia, zac, zoe); multilingual research release (7 language pairs) April 2025. Groq deployed two variants on 2026-01-13 (press: $22 per 1M characters, not verified on Groq pricing page).

Sources: https://github.com/canopyai/Orpheus-TTS , https://console.groq.com/docs/text-to-speech

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/orpheus-tts/