Bark

Suno AI · 2023 · Speech Synthesis · USA

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Suno AI
C · CEO & Politics: Mikey Shulman — No public partisan activity documented
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: Mikey Shulman (CEO/Co-founder)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Speech Synthesis
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, MIT)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Suno's Bark, a transformer-based text-to-audio model that generates realistic multilingual speech plus music, background noise, simple sound effects and nonverbal sounds like laughing, sighing and crying; it detects the language from the text, offers 100+ speaker presets and has been MIT-licensed for commercial use since May 2023. Suno built it for research and warns it can deviate unexpectedly from prompts.
S · Stock / Status: Private ($5.4B valuation, Jun 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @suno
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Speech Synthesis from Suno AI, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

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