PolyAI has introduced Dialog-RSN-1, a dialog model that perceives the caller’s audio directly instead of reading a transcript. It fuses […]
Category: TTS
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same […]
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-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 […]
Interfaze Ships diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Transcribing Six Languages via DiffusionGemma’s Parallel Denoising Decoder
Interfaze, a young YC’s startup, has open-sourced a new speech recognition model. It is called diffusion-gemma-asr-small. The model transcribes audio […]
Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
