ElevenLabs released Eleven v4, a speech model that follows cues for laughter and whispering more accurately and maintains voice consistency across long productions such as audiobooks. The Turbo varian…
Smallest.ai operates a real-time voice AI platform offering text-to-speech, speech-to-text, speech-to-speech, voice cloning, and a voice-agent platform built on small, specialized models for low laten…
Hume published its Voice Replication Leaderboard on September 10, 2026, testing 11 voice cloning models on 25 reference voices with 7 prompts, where Fish Audio s2-pro led the vendors covered at 4.03 o…
A developer reduced voice AI response latency from roughly nine seconds to about 1.5 seconds by replacing a VAPI-based integration with an in-house architecture that orchestrates Twilio for telephony,…
A developer built Maya, a real-time voice AI receptionist for a fictional Bengaluru clinic, using LiveKit, Groq, and Cartesia to handle appointment bookings with sub-second latency. The project showca…
A developer benchmarked real-time voice AI APIs from Cartesia, Deepgram, ElevenLabs, PlayHT, and OpenAI, measuring median latency and pricing across 1,000 WebSocket requests. Cartesia's Sonic-3 achiev…
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time audio perception model that performs streaming ASR, speaker diarization for 20+ speakers, and endpointing in a single autoregres…
Gradium has made a new text-to-speech model the default for its API and Studio, claiming an 81.0% hard-case pass rate and 216 ms median time to first audio on Coval's TTS benchmark. The model, live si…
Voice AI systems are shifting from cascaded pipelines to native multimodal speech-to-speech models, but the older architecture remains widely used due to its flexibility, security, and cost advantages…
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…