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American Male

Standard English Male Zonos

American Male is a male AI voice powered by the Zonos text-to-speech model. This standard-tier voice speaks English and delivers studio-quality speech synthesis. With moderate generation speed and a quality rating of 5/5, American Male is well-suited for expressive speech with emotion control, voice design studio. The Zonos engine is developed by Zyphra under the Apache 2.0 license, making it safe for commercial use. Key capabilities include: emotion control, voice cloning, ssm architecture, multilingual, pitch/rate control. The Zonos model also supports voice cloning — upload a short audio sample to create a custom voice that retains the same quality characteristics.

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ZonosModel Information

Model Zonos
Developer Zyphra
Quality
Speed Medium
License Apache 2.0
Cloning Supported
Tier Standard (2x characters)
Parameters 1.6B
Architecture Transformer + SSM Hybrid
Training Data 200000 hours
Year 2025

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Frequently Asked Questions

Zonos v0.1 by Zyphra is a 1.6B parameter model featuring fine-grained emotion control with sliders for happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and surprise. It offers both a Transformer and a novel SSM (state-space model) variant. Trained on 200K+ hours of multilingual speech with zero-shot voice cloning from 10-30 seconds of reference audio.

Zonos was developed by Zyphra and is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use of generated audio.

Zonos supports 5 languages: English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German.

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

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

Zonos is rated 5/5 for audio quality on TTS.ai. It delivers studio-grade, human-like speech.

Yes, Zonos supports zero-shot voice cloning. Upload 5-30 seconds of reference audio to create a custom voice.

Yes, Zonos is specifically recommended for expressive speech with emotion control, voice design studio. Its emotion control, voice cloning, ssm architecture capabilities make it an excellent choice for this use case.

Yes, Zonos is licensed under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use. Audio generated with Zonos 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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