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curl: keep /v1/audio/speech working

Source: OpenAI's deprecations page, entry "2026-10-01: Text-to-speech models", lists tts-1, tts-1-hd and both gpt-4o-mini-tts snapshots (gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20, gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15) with a shutdown date of Jan 6, 2027 and gpt-realtime-2.1-mini as the recommended replacement. Checked 2026-11-02.

curl https://tts.deadlinkpatrol.com/v1/audio/speech \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TTS_SWAP_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"tts-1","voice":"alloy","input":"Hello from TTS Swap."}' \
  --output speech.wav

Set TTS_SWAP_KEY to your key (free keys start with sk-tts-free-). For Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, pass language (add "language":"es" to the JSON). response_format="pcm" returns raw 24 kHz 16-bit mono.

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Get a free key on the home page (10,000 characters a month, no card), then run one of the snippets above.

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