Doubao Speech
Overview
ByteDance's Doubao speech model family covering text-to-speech, voice cloning, streaming and file transcription, and real-time voice, offered via Volcano Engine APIs; the 2.0 generation (Seed-TTS 2.0 / Seed-ASR 2.0) emphasizes LLM-based semantic understanding and emotional delivery.
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Practical facts
| Context length | Not disclosed |
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| Max output | Not disclosed |
| Parameters | Not disclosed |
| Input | Not disclosed |
| Output price | Not disclosed |
| CNY | Volcengine's Doubao page lists speech synthesis at CNY 5 per 10k characters, voice cloning at CNY 8 per 10k characters, streaming speech recognition at CNY 4.5 per hour, and file transcription 2.0 at CNY 0.8 per hour (CNY list prices, per the vendor's official pricing page). |
| Free tier | Not disclosed |
| Output speed | Not disclosed |
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| License | Not disclosed |
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Technical benchmark table
| Version | Release date | Status | Openness | Parameters | What changed | Detail | |
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| 豆包语音 2.0(Seed-TTS 2.0 / Seed-ICL 2.0,含 Seed-ASR 2.0)Showing version | Active | Closed source | Not disclosed | TTS and voice-clone 2.0 launched 2025-10-16 with stronger emotional delivery, instruction following and formula reading; Seed-ASR 2.0 followed on 2025-12-05. | Detail | ||
| 豆包语音 1.0(语音合成 / 语音识别) | Superseded | Closed source | Not disclosed | The Doubao speech family debuted in May 2024 with TTS and ASR; official docs mark streaming ASR 1.0 as a legacy version that remains usable. | Detail |
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