build3 publishers
Gemini 3.8's cheap TTS tier still takes line-by-line stage directions
Google shipped two text-to-speech models with the same per-line performance control and put voice creation on only one of them, so the tier decision depends on whether a project has to invent a voice at all.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives85
- Confidence45