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 […]
Category: Voice AI
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 […]
NVIDIA AI Released Nemotron Speech ASR: A New Open Source Transcription Model Designed from the Ground Up for Low-Latency Use Cases like Voice Agents
NVIDIA has just released its new streaming English transcription model (Nemotron Speech ASR) built specifically for low latency voice agents […]
Tencent Researchers Release Tencent HY-MT1.5: A New Translation Models Featuring 1.8B and 7B Models Designed for Seamless on-Device and Cloud Deployment
Tencent Hunyuan researchers have released HY-MT1.5, a multilingual machine translation family that targets both mobile devices and cloud systems with […]
Microsoft AI Releases VibeVoice-Realtime: A Lightweight Real‑Time Text-to-Speech Model Supporting Streaming Text Input and Robust Long-Form Speech Generation
Microsoft has released VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, a real time text to speech model that works with streaming text input and long form […]
StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-R1: A New Audio LLM that Finally Benefits from Test Time Compute Scaling
Why do current audio AI models often perform worse when they generate longer reasoning instead of grounding their decisions in […]
StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-EditX: A New Open-Source 3B LLM-Grade Audio Editing Model Excelling at Expressive and Iterative Audio Editing
How can speech editing become as direct and controllable as simply rewriting a line of text? StepFun AI has open […]
How to Build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant that Understands, Reasons, Plans, and Responds through Autonomous Multi-Step Intelligence
In this tutorial, we explore how to build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant capable of understanding, reasoning, and responding through […]
Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text
Google AI Research team has brought a production shift in Voice Search by introducing Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R). S2R maps a spoken […]
UT Austin and ServiceNow Research Team Releases AU-Harness: An Open-Source Toolkit for Holistic Evaluation of Audio LLMs
Voice AI is becoming one of the most important frontiers in multimodal AI. From intelligent assistants to interactive agents, the […]