Google DeepMind is pushing the boundaries of generative AI again. This time, the focus is not on text or images. […]
Category: Audio Language Model
Cohere Releases Tiny Aya: A 3B-Parameter Small Language Model that Supports 70 Languages and Runs Locally Even on a Phone
Cohere AI Labs has released Tiny Aya, a family of small language models (SLMs) that redefines multilingual performance. While many […]
Meet ‘Kani-TTS-2’: A 400M Param Open Source Text-to-Speech Model that Runs in 3GB VRAM with Voice Cloning Support
The landscape of generative audio is shifting toward efficiency. A new open-source contender, Kani-TTS-2, has been released by the team […]
Kyutai Releases Hibiki-Zero: A3B Parameter Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation Model Using GRPO Reinforcement Learning Without Any Word-Level Aligned Data
Kyutai has released Hibiki-Zero, a new model for simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) and speech-to-text translation (S2TT). The system translates source […]
Mistral AI Launches Voxtral Transcribe 2: Pairing Batch Diarization And Open Realtime ASR For Multilingual Production Workloads At Scale
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is becoming a core building block for AI products, from meeting tools to voice agents. Mistral’s […]
Qwen Researchers Release Qwen3-TTS: an Open Multilingual TTS Suite with Real-Time Latency and Fine-Grained Voice Control
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team has open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, a family of multilingual text-to-speech models that target three core tasks in one […]
Microsoft Releases VibeVoice-ASR: A Unified Speech-to-Text Model Designed to Handle 60-Minute Long-Form Audio in a Single Pass
Microsoft has released VibeVoice-ASR as part of the VibeVoice family of open source frontier voice AI models. VibeVoice-ASR is described […]
FlashLabs Researchers Release Chroma 1.0: A 4B Real Time Speech Dialogue Model With Personalized Voice Cloning
Chroma 1.0 is a real time speech to speech dialogue model that takes audio as input and returns audio as […]
Inworld AI Releases TTS-1.5 For Realtime, Production Grade Voice Agents
Inworld AI has introduced Inworld TTS-1.5, an upgrade to its TTS-1 family that targets realtime voice agents with strict constraints […]
How to Design a Fully Streaming Voice Agent with End-to-End Latency Budgets, Incremental ASR, LLM Streaming, and Real-Time TTS
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end streaming voice agent that mirrors how modern low-latency conversational systems operate in real […]