Suno opens Speech beta for AI voice with optional music

Suno has opened a public beta of Speech, an audio-generation tool that produces spoken words and optional original background music in a single track. The feature broadens the company’s text-to-song service to uses including poems, meditations, dramatic readings, pep talks, voice notes and bedtime stories. Users can enter an idea, poem or other writing, then specify the desired voice and musical style. Speech is available on Suno’s web and mobile platforms after a month of testing with a small user group. The product offers a Simple mode that creates audio from a prompt and an Advanced mode for a custom script. In the advanced settings, users can adjust voice gender, speaking style and generation variety; background music can be turned off for clean speech, and each generation can run for about eight minutes. Jack Brody called Speech “the first audio model that generates voice and music together as one cohesive track.” He cautioned that “beta really does mean beta,” and Suno said it would improve the tool in response to user feedback. Speech complements Suno’s central business of generating full lyric-based songs in any genre from text prompts, including for people with little or no musical training. Mikey Shulman said a user could “make a poem and bring it to life,” and described Suno’s intended role as a destination for “creative entertainment” that reaches beyond music. The launch comes after the company disclosed rapid growth. Suno said in February that it had surpassed 2 million paid subscribers, $300 million in annual recurring revenue and 100 million platform users. On Oct. 1, Shulman said the company was “far beyond” the subscriber and revenue figures, without providing updated totals. Suno raised more than $400 million in June at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation, more than double its $2.45 billion valuation seven months earlier. Bond Capital led the round, with IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed and Menlo Ventures also participating. As we reported in September, Suno had introduced its v6 model suite with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, replacing its previous models. The company said that generation was developed with music-industry participants and enabled rights holders to be paid, although the remuneration structure for artists and songwriters remained unclear. That collaboration followed major-label copyright litigation. Warner settled its claims against Suno in November 2025 and entered a licensing partnership, while Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment sued Suno again on Sept. 18, alleging that it copied 60,202 recordings without a licence. Suno first launched its music-generation product on Discord in July 2023. Speech now extends its offering from songs built around sung vocals and instrumentals to spoken-word audio, with music as an optional accompaniment.