Nova 2.5 Sonic
Nova 2.5 Sonic is a speech-to-speech model for natural, real-time voice agents. It adds improved reasoning, instruction following, and tool-calling accuracy, with lower latency than its predecessor.
What it does
Developers can use it to build real-time voice agents that follow multi-step instructions, maintain context, and use connected tools during conversations.
- Availability
- Generally available in Amazon Bedrock in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions
- Pricing model
- Same pricing as Nova 2 Sonic
- Deployment
- Amazon Bedrock
- Privacy
- Not established
- Licence
- Not established
Capability
Modality
Access
Deployment
Pricing
Target user
Evidence
5 claims- Nova 2.5 Sonic is generally available in Amazon Bedrock. [1]
Developers can also use Nova 2.5 Sonic with Strands Bidi Agents, now generally available, to build production voice agents in a few lines of code, with longer conversations and connections to other agents.
AWS. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The model provides improved reasoning, instruction following, and tool-calling accuracy for real-time voice applications. [1]
This release brings improved reasoning, instruction following, and tool-calling accuracy to real-time voice applications.
AWS. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The model supports voice and text in the same session and asynchronous tool calling. [1]
Nova 2.5 Sonic builds on existing capabilities, including robust speech understanding, expressive voices in seven languages, and controllable turn-taking, alongside support for voice and text in the same session, asynchronous tool calling, and a 256K context window.
AWS. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The model has a 256K context window. [1]
Nova 2.5 Sonic builds on existing capabilities, including robust speech understanding, expressive voices in seven languages, and controllable turn-taking, alongside support for voice and text in the same session, asynchronous tool calling, and a 256K context window.
AWS. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Nova 2.5 Sonic has the same pricing as Nova 2 Sonic. [1]
Nova 2.5 Sonic builds on existing capabilities, including robust speech understanding, expressive voices in seven languages, and controllable turn-taking, alongside support for voice and text in the same session, asynchronous tool calling, and a 256K context window.
AWS. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights.
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In briefs
1- Edit generated images through conversation with Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 Daily brief 2026-10-06
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