How do I use Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS from inside Iran?

Create a Hormouz account and generate an API key. Hormouz gives you a stable route to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling needed.

Should I use Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS or Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS?

Flash Lite is the fast, lower-cost member for high-volume and voice-agent work; Flash is the creative tier for narration, characters and multi-speaker dialogue.

Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS: audio model

Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS is the fast, high-throughput text-to-speech model of Google's Gemini 3.8 family, with 30 studio voices. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Pricing:: $0.5/M text tokens · $6/M audio tokens
Type:: audio

Audio

Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS is a text-to-speech model from Google and the fast, high-throughput member of the Gemini 3.8 TTS family, alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS.

It is built for voice-agent pipelines, high-volume read-aloud and voice replication where latency and cost matter more than maximum expressiveness, and offers the same 30 prebuilt studio voices as the rest of the family. Hormouz serves Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS on two endpoints: the OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech, which returns the audio in the same response, and /v1/predictions for background jobs. Set voice to one of the model's own voices, for example "Kore", and response_format to pcm.

Billing has two parts: the input text and the length of the generated audio (audio tokens); the current rates are in the price table on this page. Hormouz provides stable access to it from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS is a text-to-speech model from Google and the fast, high-throughput member of the 3.8 TTS family alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS. It is suited for...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts","voice":"Zephyr","input":"Hello from Hormouz.","response_format":"pcm"}' \
  --output speech.pcm

Specs

Vendor	Google
Type	Audio
Context window	—
Pricing	$0.5/M text tokens · $6/M audio tokens
API	speech

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts","voice":"Zephyr","input":"Hello from Hormouz.","response_format":"pcm"}' \
  --output speech.pcm

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
with client.audio.speech.with_streaming_response.create(
    model="google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts",
    voice="Zephyr",
    input="Hello from Hormouz.",
    response_format="pcm",
) as resp:
    resp.stream_to_file("speech.pcm")

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
import { writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const speech = await client.audio.speech.create({
  model: "google/gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts",
  voice: "Zephyr",
  input: "Hello from Hormouz.",
  response_format: "pcm",
});
await writeFile("speech.pcm", Buffer.from(await speech.arrayBuffer()));

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FAQ

How much does Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS cost?: Billing has two parts: the input text and the length of the generated audio (audio tokens); the current rates are in the price table on this page.
How do I use Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS from inside Iran?: Create a Hormouz account and generate an API key. Hormouz gives you a stable route to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling needed.
How do I call Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS?: Hormouz serves Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS on two endpoints: the OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech, which returns the audio in the same response, and /v1/predictions for background jobs. Set voice to one of the model's own voices, for example "Kore", and response_format to pcm.
Should I use Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS or Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS?: Flash Lite is the fast, lower-cost member for high-volume and voice-agent work; Flash is the creative tier for narration, characters and multi-speaker dialogue.

Updated 2026-10-13