Smallest.ai Launches Lightning V3 TTS, 3.89 MOS

Smallest.ai unveiled Lightning V3, a real‑time multilingual TTS model that clones voices from 5‑15 seconds of audio.
The model supports 15 languages, streams at 44.1 kHz (down‑sampleable to 8‑24 kHz), and achieved a 3.89 MOS, outscoring OpenAI, Cartesia and ElevenLabs.
Pricing is pay‑as‑you‑go with no upfront commitments, offering scalable deployment from prototypes to high‑volume use cases.
The solution is SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI compliant, with on‑prem/private‑cloud options for banks, insurers, BPOs and telecoms in US and India.