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➤ Cartesia's Sonic 3.6 leads Japanese and Vietnamese, while Inworld's Realtime TTS-2 ranks #1 in Mandarin.

➤ StepFun's StepAudio 2.5 TTS ranks #3 in Mandarin at 1,130 Elo, just 16 points behind Sonic 3.6.

➤ In Japanese, Inworld's Realtime TTS-2 ranks #2 at 1,123 Elo, ahead of ElevenLabs' v3 Conversational and Sonic 3.5.

Japanese: Cartesia's Sonic 3.6 ranks #1 at 1,153 Elo, followed by Inworld's Realtime TTS-2 at 1,123 and ElevenLabs' v3 Conversational at 1,095. Sonic 3.5 and Eleven v3 round out the top 5 at 1,093 and 1,085.

Mandarin: Inworld's Realtime TTS-2 ranks #1 at 1,185 Elo, followed by Sonic 3.6 at 1,146 and StepFun's StepAudio 2.5 TTS at 1,130. Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus and MiniMax's Speech 2.8 Turbo round out the top 5.

Vietnamese: Sonic 3.6 ranks #1 at 1,721 Elo, followed by ElevenLabs' v3 Conversational at 1,677 and Eleven v3 at 1,676. Sonic 3.5 ranks #4 at 1,650, followed by Realtime TTS-2 at 1,600.