API: simba-3.0 is the new default TTS model
API: simba-3.0 is the new default TTS model
POST /v1/audio/speech, POST /v1/audio/stream and POST /v1/audio/stream/with-timestamps now resolve a request that omits model to simba-3.0 instead of the legacy simba-english. GET /v1/audio/models marks the change on its default flag.
Nothing you already send changes shape, and nothing that worked starts failing. A request that names a model explicitly is untouched - model: "simba-english" keeps getting Simba 1.6 English, and that model stays fully supported with nothing scheduled for removal.
What changes if you omit model:
simba-3.0 was chosen over the recommended simba-3.2 precisely because it accepts everything the old default did: simba-3.2 serves a curated voice set and rejects non-English voices, so making it the default would have turned working calls into 400s.
The rendered audio does change if you omit model. Pin the old behaviour by sending model: "simba-english" explicitly if your integration depends on the Simba 1.6 output. For new English work we still recommend model: "simba-3.2" - see Models.