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Bark Small

English Male 1

Standard English Male Bark Small

English Male 1 is a male AI voice powered by the Bark Small text-to-speech model. This standard-tier voice speaks English and delivers good-quality speech synthesis. With moderate generation speed and a quality rating of 3/5, English Male 1 is well-suited for quick creative audio when full bark is too slow. The Bark Small engine is developed by Suno under the MIT license, making it safe for commercial use. Key capabilities include: lightweight, faster than full bark, emotional speech, multilingual.

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Bark SmallModel Information

Model Bark Small
Developer Suno
Quality
Speed Medium
License MIT
Cloning Not available
Tier Standard (2x characters)
Parameters 150M
Architecture GPT-style Transformer (distilled)
Training Data 100000 hours
Year 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

Bark Small is a distilled version of the Bark model that trades some audio quality for significantly faster inference speeds and lower memory requirements. It retains Bark's ability to generate speech with emotions, laughter, and multiple languages.

Bark Small was developed by Suno and is released under the MIT license, which permits commercial use of generated audio.

Bark Small supports 13 languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean and more.

Bark Small is in the Standard tier — 2 credits per 1,000 characters. You can preview any Bark Small voice for free before generating full audio.

Bark Small has moderate generation speed. Generation typically takes a few seconds depending on text length.

Bark Small is rated 3/5 for audio quality on TTS.ai. It delivers good quality speech suitable for most applications.

No, Bark Small uses a fixed set of built-in voices. For voice cloning, try models like CosyVoice 2, GPT-SoVITS, or Chatterbox.

Yes, Bark Small is specifically recommended for quick creative audio when full bark is too slow. Its lightweight, faster than full bark, emotional speech capabilities make it an excellent choice for this use case.

Yes, Bark Small is licensed under MIT, which allows commercial use. Audio generated with Bark Small voices can be used in videos, podcasts, apps, games, and any other commercial project.

Yes, all voices on TTS.ai use commercially-licensed open-source models (MIT, Apache 2.0). The generated audio is yours to use in videos, podcasts, apps, games, and any other commercial application.

Send a POST request to /api/v1/tts/ with the model name and voice ID. See our API Documentation page for code examples in Python, JavaScript, Go, and cURL.

Yes, click the play button on this page to hear a sample. You can also type custom text on the Text to Speech page and generate a free preview with any voice.

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