Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model. It generates expressive speech from both text and audio context. […]
Category: Audio Language Model
Best Text-to-Speech TTS Models in 2026: A Benchmark-Based Comparison
Text-to-speech TTS moved fast over the past year. The line between synthetic and human speech narrowed. Latency dropped below 100 […]
Stability AI Releases Stable Audio 3: A Family of Fast Latent Diffusion Models for Audio Generation and Editing
Stability AI has released open weights for Stable Audio 3 along with a technical research paper. Stable Audio 3 is […]
Meet OmniVoice Studio: A Local, Open-Source Alternative to ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs charges between $5 and $330 per month for voice AI services. Every audio file you process goes through their […]
StepFun Releases StepAudio 2.5 Realtime: An End-to-End Voice Model with Roleplay-Specific RLHF and Paralinguistic Comprehension
StepFun, the Shanghai-based AI lab, released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime. It is an end-to-end real-time speech large language model with fully […]
Supertone Releases Supertonic v3: On-Device Text-to-Speech Model with 31-Language Support, Fewer Reading Failures, and Expression Tags
Supertone released Supertonic 3, the third generation of its on-device, ONNX-based text-to-speech system. Supertonic 3 ships with 31-language support, improved […]
OpenAI Releases Three Realtime Audio Models: GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper in the Realtime API
OpenAI released three new audio models through its Realtime API, each targeting a distinct capability in live voice applications: GPT-Realtime-2 […]
Inworld AI Launches Realtime TTS-2: A Closed-Loop Voice Model That Adapts to How You Actually Talk
Voice AI has a dirty secret: most of it was never designed for conversation. The dominant paradigm — feed text […]
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) […]
