playai-tts-arabic — End-of-Life — shutdown 12/31/25
For playai-tts-arabic, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; deprecation announced is December 23, 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 12/31/25; recommended replacement is canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi, recorded from its source on 2026-09-09.
- Provider
- Groq our reading
- Model ID / API name
- playai-tts-arabic verified
- Lifecycle status
- End-of-Life
- Deprecation announced
- December 23, 2025 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 12/31/25 verified
- Recommended replacement
- canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi verified
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What the source says
| playai-tts-arabic | 12/31/25 | canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi |
— console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-09
Where each value comes from
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Deprecation announced
In line with our commitment to bringing you cutting-edge models, on December 23, 2025, we emailed users to announce the deprecation of playai-tts and playai-tts-arabic in favor of the newer Orpheus text-to-speech models from Canopy Labs. The new Orpheus models deliver enhanced expressiveness with vocal direction controls, faster inference, and improved audio quality for your text-to-speech applications.
— all from console.groq.com, retrieved 2026-09-09
Sources
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations.md
- console.groq.comhttps://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations
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