A developer's analysis of text-to-speech APIs reveals that ranked 'best of' lists fail to capture the real decision process, which involves three independent filters: price, transport, and compliance.…
LiveKit Agents, the open-source framework from LiveKit that powers ChatGPT's voice mode and counts xAI, Salesforce, and 911 dispatch operators among its customers, is trending on GitHub as developers …
Pipecat, an open-source framework for voice AI agents, now supports monitoring and observability through OpenTelemetry, enabling developers to export logs, traces, and metrics to SigNoz for real-time …
Former NCSoft president Songyee Yoon, now founder of Principal Venture Partners, argues that AI learns in a broken way compared to humans and that this gap presents an investment opportunity for start…
Palabra.ai claims the world's fastest text-to-speech latency at 104 ms time to first audio, based on an independent benchmark by Coval that ranks it ahead of ElevenLabs and Cartesia. The company says …
Ojin, a German-based AI company, launches a platform for building real-time human-like AI agents with voice and face capabilities, offering APIs for easy website integration and starting with $10 in f…
Together, which runs inference for Cursor, Decagon, Cartesia, and Yutori, explains that 99.9% inference uptime requires surviving a full data center failure through multi-DC deployment with live traff…
TypeWhisper 1.5, an open-source dictation and workflow tool for macOS and Windows, now supports system-wide dictation, file transcription, and unified workflows with on-device AI models or cloud APIs …
Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus text-to-speech model has taken the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena Leaderboard with an Elo rating of 1,236 based on 1,305 blind user evaluations, nar…
Gradium, a Paris-based voice AI startup backed by Nvidia, raised $100M to commercialize its audio-native language model that achieves sub-200ms latency, beating human conversation turn-taking baseline…
Hail.so launches an open-source MCP server, CLI, and API that unifies email, SMS, and phone call capabilities under a single interface, packaging Twilio, AWS SES, LiveKit, ElevenLabs, Cartesia, and LL…
Cartesia CEO Karan Goel announced the integration of Sonic 3.5 for text-to-speech and Ink 2 for speech-to-text into a unified voice-agent stack, claiming the company is now the only provider with mode…
Together AI launched Voice Finder, a search tool that indexes over 600 voices across multiple text-to-speech models to help developers quickly select the right voice for their applications. The tool a…