Voice AI has a dirty secret: most of it was never designed for conversation. The dominant paradigm — feed text […]
Category: Audio Language Model
Closing the ‘Expressivity Gap’: How Mistral’s Voxtral TTS is Redefining Multilingual Voice Cloning with a Hybrid Autoregressive and Flow-Matching Architecture
Voice AI has a dirty secret. Most text-to-speech systems sound fine — until they don’t. They can read a sentence. […]
Sakana AI Introduces KAME: A Tandem Speech-to-Speech Architecture That Injects LLM Knowledge in Real Time
The fundamental tension in conversational AI has always been a binary choice: respond fast or respond smart. Real-time speech-to-speech (S2S) […]
IBM Releases Two Granite Speech 4.1 2B Models: Autoregressive ASR with Translation and Non-Autoregressive Editing for Fast Inference
IBM released two new open speech recognition models— Granite Speech 4.1 2B and Granite Speech 4.1 2B-NAR — and they […]
smol-audio: A Colab-Friendly Notebook Collection for Fine-Tuning Whisper, Parakeet, Voxtral, Granite Speech, and Audio Flamingo 3
Audio AI has had a breakout year. Automatic speech recognition has gotten dramatically better with models like OpenAI’s Whisper variants, […]
OpenMOSS Releases MOSS-Audio: An Open-Source Foundation Model for Speech, Sound, Music, and Time-Aware Audio Reasoning
Understanding what’s happening in an audio clip is a deceptively hard problem. Transcribing spoken words is the easy part. A […]
xAI Launches grok-voice-think-fast-1.0: Topping τ-voice Bench at 67.3%, Outperforming Gemini, GPT Realtime, and More
Building a production-grade voice AI agent is one of the hardest engineering challenges in applied machine learning today. It is […]
A Coding Implementation on Deepgram Python SDK for Transcription, Text-to-Speech, Async Audio Processing, and Text Intelligence
In this tutorial, we build an advanced hands-on workflow with the Deepgram Python SDK and explore how modern voice AI […]
xAI Launches Standalone Grok Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs, Targeting Enterprise Voice Developers
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has launched two standalone audio APIs — a Speech-to-Text (STT) API and a Text-to-Speech (TTS) […]
Google AI Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: A New Benchmark in Expressive and Controllable AI Voice
Google has introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a preview text-to-speech model focused on improving speech quality, expressive control, and multilingual […]