IBM has released Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact speech-language model designed for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional […]
Category: TTS
Fish Audio Releases Fish Audio S2: A New Generation of Expressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) with Absurdly Controllable Emotion
The landscape of Text-to-Speech (TTS) is moving away from modular pipelines toward integrated Large Audio Models (LAMs). Fish Audio’s release […]
Google DeepMind Releases Lyria 3: An Advanced Music Generation AI Model that Turns Photos and Text into Custom Tracks with Included Lyrics and Vocals
Google DeepMind is pushing the boundaries of generative AI again. This time, the focus is not on text or images. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
NVIDIA Releases PersonaPlex-7B-v1: A Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Model Designed for Natural and Full-Duplex Conversations
NVIDIA Researchers released PersonaPlex-7B-v1, a full duplex speech to speech conversational model that targets natural voice interactions with precise persona […]