Cartesia has released Sonic-3.6, the newest version of its real-time text-to-speech model. It arrives roughly three months after Sonic-3.5. The […]
Category: Audio Language Model
MiniMax Releases MiniMax-Music3: An Open-Weights Music Model Generating Complete Five-Minute Songs From Lyrics and a Structured Caption
MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music model. The model takes two separate inputs: lyrics carrying section tags, and a detailed […]
NVIDIA Releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B: An Open Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with ~450 ms Turn-Taking and Live Tool Calling
NVIDIA has released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open 11B end-to-end speech-to-speech model for real-time, full-duplex conversation. Instead of chaining ASR, […]
MiniMax Releases MiniMax H3: An Omni-Modal Video Model That Generates 15-Second 2K Clips With Native Stereo Audio
MiniMax releases MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. MiniMax H3 is not a text-to-video model with add-ons. MiniMax describes […]
PolyAI Releases Dialog-RSN-1: An Audio-Native Dialog Model That Fuses Turn-Taking, Speech Recognition, Function Calling, And Response
PolyAI has introduced Dialog-RSN-1, a dialog model that perceives the caller’s audio directly instead of reading a transcript. It fuses […]
Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared
Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture some time in the last twelve months. In March 2026 Cohere released […]
Kyutai Releases MuScriptor: An Open-Weight Decoder-Only Transformer for Multi-Instrument Music Transcription to MIDI
Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) converts an audio recording into symbolic notes, usually MIDI. Single-instrument transcription already works reasonably well. However, […]
OpenAI Releases GPT-Live and GPT-Live-1 mini: Full-Duplex Voice Models That Delegate Deeper Reasoning to GPT-5.5
Today, OpenAI released GPT-Live. It is a new generation of voice models. GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT Voice experience. The […]
NVIDIA Releases Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B): A Unified Audio-Text LLM That Preserves the Text Intelligence of Its Backbone
NVIDIA has released Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B), a unified audio-text large language model. It understands and generates both audio and speech. It […]
OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini for Low-Latency Voice Agents in the API
OpenAI has released two new Realtime models in its API. They are named gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-realtime-2.1-mini. Both target low-latency voice […]