Zonos

Ultra

Expressive voice cloning with emotion and style control

Medium Speed
Excellent Quality
Yes Cloning
5 Languages

About Zonos

Zonos by Zyphra is a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model with advanced emotion and style control. It supports voice cloning from 5-30 seconds of reference audio and can modulate the emotional tone of generated speech. Choose from emotions like happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust to create highly expressive and emotionally nuanced audio.

Key Features

Emotion Control

Control speech emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, and neutral.

Voice Cloning

Clone any voice from 5-30 seconds of reference audio with high fidelity.

Expressive Speech

1.6B parameters produce highly expressive speech with nuanced emotional delivery.

Multilingual

Supports English, Japanese, Chinese, French, and German.

Use Cases

Emotionally expressive content creation Game character voices with emotions Audiobook narration with mood Interactive voice experiences

How to Use Zonos

  1. 1

    Sign up or open the demo

    Create a free TextToSpeechAI account to get starter credits, or use the no-signup demo to try Zonos right away.

  2. 2

    Choose the Zonos engine

    Select Zonos from the voice and model picker. To clone a voice, upload 5-30 seconds of clean reference audio so Zonos can match the speaker.

  3. 3

    Enter your text

    Type or paste the script you want spoken. Zonos works across English, Japanese, Chinese, French, and German.

  4. 4

    Pick an emotion and generate

    Choose one of the seven Zonos emotions - neutral, happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, or disgust - then click generate to render expressive speech in that mood.

  5. 5

    Download or use the API

    Play back and download the finished audio, or call the same Zonos engine programmatically through the TextToSpeechAI REST API for automated workflows.

Zonos API

Generate speech programmatically using the TextToSpeechAI REST API.

curl -X POST "https://api.texttospeechai.com/v1/generate/" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "Zonos generates incredibly expressive speech with fine\u002Dgrained emotion control.",
    "voice": "en_US-lessac-medium"
  }'

Frequently Asked Questions

Zonos is a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model from Zyphra. It specializes in expressive speech generation with fine-grained emotion control and high-fidelity voice cloning. On TextToSpeechAI it runs as an ultra-tier engine for the most nuanced, emotionally rich audio.

Yes. Zonos is released under the Apache 2.0 license for both its code and model weights, so it can be used freely in commercial products with no attribution or non-commercial restrictions. That makes it safe for paid apps, client work, and monetized content.

Zonos exposes seven emotion states - neutral, happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust - that you select before generating. The model conditions its delivery on the chosen emotion, shifting tone, pacing, and intonation so the same sentence can sound cheerful or angry. This makes Zonos ideal for character voices and dialogue that needs a specific mood.

Zonos supports seven emotion options: neutral, happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. You pick one per generation to set the emotional tone of the entire clip.

Yes. Zonos clones a voice from just 5-30 seconds of reference audio, extracting the speaker characteristics and reproducing them in new speech. You can combine cloning with any of the seven emotions to make a cloned voice sound happy, angry, or fearful.

Zonos handles five languages: English, Japanese, Chinese, French, and German. Emotion control and voice cloning work across all of these languages.

Zonos runs at medium speed because of its 1.6B parameter size, trading raw throughput for excellent, highly expressive output. The quality is among the best for emotional and cloned speech, so it suits final production audio rather than bulk real-time generation.

Zonos requires 8GB or more of VRAM for its 1.6B parameter model. A GPU with at least 10GB is recommended for comfortable operation when combining voice cloning with emotion control. On TextToSpeechAI all of this runs on our GPU backend, so you need no hardware of your own.

Zonos is an ultra-tier engine, billed at 50 credits per 1,000 characters. The ultra tier reflects its large model and advanced emotion and cloning capabilities, the same tier as StyleTTS2, Tortoise, and OpenVoice.

Both offer style and emotion control with voice cloning. Zonos provides seven discrete emotion states and a modern 1.6B architecture, while OpenVoice offers tone styles like friendly, cheerful, and whispering with very fast instant cloning. Choose Zonos when you want explicit emotion selection and maximum expressiveness; choose OpenVoice for lighter, faster tone shifting.

Bark adds expressive markers like [laughter] and [sighs] but offers limited cloning, and Dia focuses on multi-speaker dialogue with nonverbal sounds. Zonos centers on explicit emotion selection plus strong single-voice cloning, giving you precise control over the mood of each clip. Pick the engine that matches whether you need emotion tags, dialogue turns, or selectable emotions.

Yes. New TextToSpeechAI accounts get free starter credits, and the demo lets you generate sample audio without signing up. That is enough to test Zonos emotion control and voice cloning before buying additional credits.

Technical Specs

  • Generation Speed Medium
  • Output Quality Excellent
  • Voice Cloning Supported
  • Languages 5
  • GPU VRAM 8GB+
  • Credits/1000 chars 50

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