Bark TTS
Suno's transformer-based text-to-audio model that generates speech plus laughter, sighs, music, and sound effects.
Wrap your text in SSML tags for precise control:
<speak><prosody rate="slow">Slow speech</prosody></speak>
Tags the selected model understands — click to drop one into your text where it happens:
This model reads plain text, so inline tags are ignored. For tag-based emotion, switch to an expressive model like Orpheus or Bark.
Define custom pronunciations (word = pronunciation):
About Bark
Bark comes from Suno and takes a different approach from most TTS systems: it is a GPT-style transformer trained as a text-to-audio model rather than a pure text-to-speech one. Because it generates raw audio tokens, it can produce nonverbal sounds — laughing, sighing, crying — as well as background music and sound effects alongside the spoken words. It ships with 100+ speaker presets and handles 13+ languages including English, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, and Korean. The trade-off is speed and length: at 350M parameters it runs slowly (~15s per clip) and caps at 200 characters, so it shines for short, emotive, creative audio rather than long narration.
Best for: Creative audio content, audiobooks with emotion, sound effects
Browse all Bark voicesAt a glance
- Developer
- Suno
- License
- MIT
- Tier
- standard
- Speed
- slow
- Voice cloning
- No
- Languages
- English, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
- Max characters
- 200