HeyGen Voice Text to Speech API

Multilingual text-to-speech in hundreds of stock voices.

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Pricing
~8.35s
POST /v2/heygen-voice-tts · submit + poll
 1# pip install "segmind>=1.1.0"
 2# export SEGMIND_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
 3import segmind
 4
 5# Async (v2): submit to the queue and block until COMPLETED.
 6# run() returns the final result dict (600s deadline, 1.0s poll by default).
 7result = segmind.run(
 8    "heygen-voice-tts",
 9    text="Forty-one nights on the mountain, and still nothing. Then, at 3:12 in the morning, the screen lit up. Could this really be it? I called Dr. Okafor at the Atacama station, my hands shaking so hard I could barely hold the phone. We checked it twice, then a third time - and yes, it was real. After three years, we had finally found it.",
10    voice_id="049413e41c334753984c294d694afb5c",
11    speed=1,
12    expressiveness=1,
13)
14print(result["status"])                      # COMPLETED
15print(result.get("output"))                  # model output (e.g. media URL)
16print(result["metrics"]["inference_time"])   # server compute seconds
17
18# --- Or submit + poll manually (track request_id, control the cadence) ---
19from segmind import SegmindClient, InferenceFailed, InferenceTimeout
20
21client = SegmindClient()                      # reads SEGMIND_API_KEY
22payload = {
23    "text": "Forty-one nights on the mountain, and still nothing. Then, at 3:12 in the morning, the screen lit up. Could this really be it? I called Dr. Okafor at the Atacama station, my hands shaking so hard I could barely hold the phone. We checked it twice, then a third time - and yes, it was real. After three years, we had finally found it.",
24    "voice_id": "049413e41c334753984c294d694afb5c",
25    "speed": 1,
26    "expressiveness": 1,
27}
28job = client.submit_async("heygen-voice-tts", **payload)
29print(job.request_id)                         # available immediately
30try:
31    result = job.wait(timeout=600, interval=1.0)
32except InferenceTimeout as e:
33    print("still running:", e.request_id)
34except InferenceFailed as e:
35    print("failed:", e.detail)

API Endpoint

POSThttps://api.segmind.com/v1/heygen-voice-tts

Parameters

textrequired
string

Script to speak, up to 5,000 characters. Multi-sentence text with varied punctuation reads most naturally. On stock voices, pause with <break time="0.5s"/> (seconds only).

Default: "Forty-one nights on the mountain, and still nothing. Then, at 3:12 in the morning, the screen lit up. Could this really be it? I called Dr. Okafor at the Atacama station, my hands shaking so hard I could barely hold the phone. We checked it twice, then a third time - and yes, it was real. After three years, we had finally found it."
voice_idrequired
string

A HeyGen stock catalog voice ID, or a voice you made with heygen-voice-clone (private to your workspace).

Default: "049413e41c334753984c294d694afb5c"
engineoptional
string

Optional stock-voice engine. Premade catalog voices reject a pin, so leave it unset.

Allowed values :
HeyGen Voice (Orca)→"orca"
Starfish→"starfish"
expressivenessoptional
number

Emotional range for cloned voices, 0 to 1. Near 1 is lively, around 0.2 is calm; stock voices use the default.

Default: 1Range: 0 - 1
languageoptional
string

Optional code like en, pt-BR, or zh-HK. Auto-detected from the text when unset; set it to force a language.

speedoptional
number

Playback speed 0.5 to 2, stock voices only. Keep at 1 for cloned voices.

Default: 1Range: 0.5 - 2

Response Type

Returns: Audio

Asynchronous requests (v2)

Use Async for video, long-running (>~60s), or high-concurrency workloads; Sync is simplest for fast image & LLM calls. Async submits a request and you poll it to completion.

  1. 1
    POST /v2/heygen-voice-tts

    Submit — returns request_id, status_url, response_url

  2. 2
    GET /v2/requests/{id}/status

    Poll — until COMPLETED or FAILED

  3. 3
    GET /v2/requests/{id}

    Result — final response body

Status states

QUEUED— Accepted, waiting for a worker
PROCESSING— Running on a worker
COMPLETED— Done — result body is ready
FAILED— Errored (incl. content/RAI blocks)
  • A FAILED request is served as HTTP 422 — the body still carries the error detail.
  • An unknown or expired request_id returns HTTP 404.
  • Results are retained for 1 hour, then expire.
  • Content / RAI blocks surface as FAILED, not a separate state.
  • Track completion by polling the status endpoint.

Common Error Codes

The API returns standard HTTP status codes. Detailed error messages are provided in the response body.

400

Bad Request

Invalid parameters or request format

401

Unauthorized

Missing or invalid API key

403

Forbidden

Insufficient permissions

404

Not Found

Model or endpoint not found

406

Insufficient Credits

Not enough credits to process request

429

Rate Limited

Too many requests

500

Server Error

Internal server error

502

Bad Gateway

Service temporarily unavailable

504

Timeout

Request timed out