# playai-tts — End-of-Life — shutdown 12/31/25

For playai-tts, 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-v1-english, recorded from its source on 2026-09-09.

- **Provider:** Groq _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** playai-tts _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** End-of-Life
- **Deprecation announced:** December 23, 2025 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 12/31/25 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> December 31, 2025: playai-tts and playai-tts-arabic 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. Deprecated Model | Shutdown Date | Recommended Replacement Model ID | playai-tts | 12/31/25 | canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english |

## 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.

## Source

- https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations

Last verified: 2026-09-09. Review by: 2026-10-09.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).