HeyGen Launches HeyGen Voice, Debuting at #1 on Artificial Analysis' Leaderboard

HeyGen Supports High-Quality, Identity-Secure Video Content Creation for Creators and Businesses at Scale

HeyGen Voice Delivers Authentic, Natural Output That Sounds Like the User's Real Voice

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HeyGen, the world's leading personal avatar company, today launched HeyGen Voice, its new in-house voice model. HeyGen Voice debuts at #1 on Artificial Analysis' Leaderboard, earning the top ranking as the world's best model in independent evaluations of AI voice models, and marking a major milestone for HeyGen'stechnology.

The launch expands HeyGen's work to make high-quality video creation available to people and businesses that increasingly rely on content creation for their digital presence. A recent HeyGen survey of more than 1,000 small business owners in its global user base found that 71.6% had recorded a video for their business and ultimately decided not to post it. HeyGen Voice helps alleviate issues of production quality or having a lack of confidence in front of the camera.

Many AI voice models lack components like emphasis, emotion, and timing, that make a voice identifiable and compelling, and listeners lose interest right away. HeyGen Voice is built for authentic performance, keeping the tone, pacing and expression of a person's voice so that every line comes across the way they would actually deliver it.

"Voice is one of the most powerful and personal ways we communicate, and quality makes all the difference," said Rong Yan, CTO of HeyGen. "We built HeyGen Voice to deliver the best possible AI voice that technology can deliver; one that always sounds like you at your best. Debuting at #1 on Artificial Analysis is independent proof that you don't have to trade authenticity for quality."

HeyGen Voice product highlights include:

• #1 Ranked Voice Model: Top ranking on Artificial Analysis' Leaderboard in independent evaluations of AI voice models.
• Authentic Delivery: Delivers natural emphasis, emotion, character and pacing, so users sound like themselves and not a synthetic copy.
• One End-to-End Stack: HeyGen's Avatar V is the core model, and voice is a new format inside the same stack. Identity and voice come from one place rather than a patchwork of vendors.
• Free Access: HeyGen Voice is available free within the HeyGen platform and API.
• HeyGen Professional Voice Clone: A $99/month add-on for users who want the closest representation of their own voice. It is trained, with explicit consent, on 30 minutes to three hours of the owner's speech.

A key component of HeyGen's success is their ability to create products that are true to each user's identity. As AI makes it easier to create realistic representations of people, HeyGen has made consent and control central to how its technology is built. HeyGen requires the voice owner's explicit consent, with safeguards built into its avatar products that help ensure users remain in control of how their voice and likeness are represented.

Today's announcement follows the recent launch of HeyGen Video and continued expansion of the company's tools for creators and businesses. HeyGen also recently earned a Committed Badge from EcoVadis, reflecting the company's performance across environment, labor and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement as it continues to grow its enterprise business.

Founded in 2020, HeyGen now reaches over 40 million users across 196 countries, with more than 118 million videos created and adoption across 85% of the Fortune 100. The company recently surpassed $200 million in ARR, doubling revenue in eight months.

HeyGen Voice will continue to roll out additional capabilities and updates taking into account feedback from users, as the model continues to evolve.

ABOUT HEYGEN

HeyGen is the world's leading AI avatar company. HeyGen creates Personal Avatars — AI-powered digital versions of people that look, move, and sound like them. Featured in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2026, rated #1 most realistic on G2 and powered by its proprietary Avatar V model, HeyGen is used by over 40 million people and 85% of the Fortune 100 to create clear, confident videos without filming every one—so they can be their best self, every time.

SOURCE HeyGen