Introducing Deepgram Aura: Lightning Fast Text-to-Speech for Voice AI Agents

Deepgram has launched Aura, a generally available text-to-speech API designed for low-latency, high-throughput conversational AI agents and applications. Aura provides 12 English voices, natural conversational features such as pauses, breaths, hesitation sounds, and contextual tone changes, and average response times below 250 milliseconds, with pricing beginning at $0.015 per 1,000 characters. Combined with Deepgram’s Nova-2 speech-to-text service and external language models, Aura completes the company’s Voice AI platform across listening, reasoning, and speaking functions. Deepgram positions Aura for real-time interactions such as customer support, appointments, ordering, and voicebots, distinguishing these workloads from quality-focused content production such as audiobooks and advertising. Early users including Humach, Vapi, and Daily have integrated Aura into production or development platforms, citing its speed, voice quality, and integration with Deepgram’s transcription services. The company also offers an open-source demonstration, API access, $200 in new-user credits, and plans to expand Aura with more lifelike voices, languages, and use cases.

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