PlayAI TTS deprecated; Orpheus now platform-wide

Following the December 2025 deprecation announcement for playai-tts and playai-tts-arabic, text-to-speech has been migrated platform-wide to the Orpheus models from Canopy Labs, offering enhanced expressiveness with vocal direction controls, faster inference, and improved audio quality.

Groq Chat now uses Orpheus, with voices:

• English (canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english): autumn, diana, hannah, austin, daniel, troy
• Arabic (canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi): fahad, sultan, lulwa, noura

Users still on playai-tts or playai-tts-arabic should migrate before the shutdown date listed on the deprecations page.