Microsoft is testing a new native real-time voice model, MAI Realtime, which has appeared as a hidden early-access entry in its MAI Playground. The bidirectional, full-duplex system, which listens and…
Self-hosted text-to-speech (TTS) engines in 2026 allow users to run AI voice servers locally on personal PCs or home servers, eliminating ongoing costs, rate limits, and third-party data sharing. A gu…
SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) provides fine-grained control over AI speech output, including pronunciation, pacing, volume, pitch, and pauses, with support across major TTS engines like Goog…
A developer preparing for a Microsoft MVP application shares observations on recent Azure AI updates, including the Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs with a 50% performance boost for agentic AI workloads…