Suno is expanding beyond AI-generated songs with Speech, a new public-beta feature that creates spoken audio and original background music together as one cohesive track. Users can enter a general prompt or provide a custom script, then control elements including voice gender, speech style and variation. Background music is optional, and generated speech can run for roughly eight minutes. Suno says the tool is designed for uses ranging from poems and dramatic readings to meditations, voiceovers and other forms of spoken audio.

The launch broadens Suno’s position from an AI music generator into a wider audio-creation platform and puts it more directly into areas already being developed by companies such as ElevenLabs and Adobe. For the music business, the expansion is notable because Suno can now combine generated voices and music inside the same product, potentially creating new uses for music in podcasts, narration, advertising and other spoken-content formats. It also makes questions around voice identity, likeness, licensing and ownership of generated audio increasingly relevant as the technology develops—particularly while Suno is already facing separate litigation alleging unauthorized uses of musicians’ identities and voices. Speech remains in beta, and Suno says it plans to improve the product based on user feedback.