bytedance-seed
ByteDance Seed: Seed Audio 1.0
bytedance-seed/seed-audio-1-0
Our take
AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.
According to OpenRouter's catalog, bytedance-seed/seed-audio-1-0 is ByteDance Seed's non-streaming text-to-speech generation model. The catalog says a natural-language prompt can specify the desired voice, tone, and sound, and its description also mentions other audio, although the structured output modality lists only speech. No measured performance or benchmark evidence is supplied, and an independent model card was not available in this source pack. Treat the capability claims as catalog-reported and validate quality, latency, language coverage, and controls on the intended workload.[1]
Strengths
Limitations
- Only OpenRouter catalog evidence was supplied; an independent model card was not available, so capability claims require workload validation.[1]
- No benchmark results or measured quality, latency, reliability, or language-performance data were provided.[1]
- The model is non-streaming, lists speech as its only structured output, and exposes no supported parameters in the supplied record.[1]
Where to use it
- Offline generation of narration or spoken assets when prompt control over voice and delivery is sufficient.[1]
- Prototyping voices or audio directions before committing to a production speech pipeline.[1]
- Batch speech synthesis workflows, provided teams validate quality, language coverage, and latency.[1]
Sources
- [1] OpenRouter catalog · ByteDance Seed: Seed Audio 1.0Sources checked: Nov 13, 2026
About this model
Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.
Seed Audio 1.0 is ByteDance Seed's non-streaming audio generation model. It produces speech and other audio from a natural-language text prompt that can describe the desired voice, tone, and sound...
Specifications
- Model ID
- bytedance-seed/seed-audio-1-0
- Canonical ID
- bytedance-seed/seed-audio-1-0-20260630
- Creator
- bytedance-seed
- Added to OpenRouter
- 25.09.2026
- Context length
- 0
- Modality
- text->speech
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- speech
- Token pricing
- No per-token price in the source snapshot — see OpenRouter for the billing unit
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Expiration date
- —
Tasks and capabilities
A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.
| Task | Grade | Source-declared capability |
|---|---|---|
| General quality | No measurement | — |
| Coding | No measurement | — |
| Agents | No measurement | — |
| Writing | No measurement | — |
| Reasoning | No measurement | — |
| Document analysis | No measurement | — |
| Vision | No measurement | — |
| Image generation | No measurement | — |
| Audio | No measurement | — |
| Video | No measurement | — |
| Embeddings | No measurement | — |
Evaluations
No evaluations are supplied for this model.
How grades work
Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.
- S — S — top 10% of the cohort
- A — A — next 20% of the cohort
- B — B — next 30% of the cohort
- C — C — below the B band
Providers
Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Provider | Context length | Price in /1M | Price out /1M | Latency p50 (30m, s) | Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s) | Uptime (30m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 0 | — | — | — | — | 100% |
Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026
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