SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 on July 29th, a speech-to-speech model priced at $0.08 per minute of audio, a 60% increase from the $0.05 rate for Think Fast 1.0. The model, available via …
Vellum has introduced Voice Mode for its personal AI assistant, enabling spoken conversation processed through the same agent loop as text chat, with speech transcribed by Deepgram and synthesized by …
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a seed round and reports $21m in annual recurring revenue from more than 8 million users. The company gives away its best models and charge…
OpenAI released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API, with GPT Transcribe achieving a 3.31 percent word error rate on the AA-WER benchmar…
ElevenLabs has expanded its ElevenAgents platform to support omnichannel deployment across phone, web, WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, Slack, and ticketing systems including Zendesk, Intercom, and Freshdesk.…
London proptech Dwelly has closed a $170M Series B to acquire small UK letting agencies and run them on its AI operating system, with EQT Growth and General Catalyst leading the round split between $9…
Fliki launched 70+ realistic AI characters with multi-angle shots on July 15, 2026, offering faceless YouTube creators a budget-friendly alternative to Synthesia and HeyGen at $21/month (annual), roug…
Nous Research co-founder Ryan "Teknium" Teknium announced Wednesday that Hermes Agent voice chats now stream speech from most API-based text-to-speech backends, reducing perceived delay by starting au…
Fish Audio, a San Francisco startup founded by former Nvidia researcher Shijia Liao, has raised a $52 million seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, reaching $21 million in annual recu…
European unicorn founders are arriving with more work experience and technical credentials than earlier cohorts, according to a Revelio Labs analysis of 290 unicorn companies. Average pre-founding ten…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto-based AI voice developer, has raised a $50 million seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, the company announced. Co-founded by CEO Rissa Cao and chief scientist…
ElevenLabs' public event information places Bengaluru within its broader Summit network, but it does not list a standalone ElevenLabs Summit in the city on October 6, 2026. The relevant October event …
Boson AI, co-founded by machine learning researcher Alex Smola in 2023, is releasing its first speech-to-speech model, Higgs RealTime, aiming to make human-machine conversation more natural. The Santa…
A developer built a generative visual piece using Google AI Studio's Gemini multimodal model, creating a neon cyberpunk cityscape with tetrahedron bubbles forming a word-and-light matrix. The project …
YouTube creators can cut pre-production time by 60-70% using an LLM agent for topic validation, structured scripting, and asset generation, according to a guide on scaling faceless channels. The appro…
Runway launched Media Router on July 23, an automated selection layer for its Runway Dev platform that chooses among generative AI models for image, video and audio based on developer preferences for …
OfflineTTS offers unlimited free, local text-to-speech with 54 voices and no data transmission, while Amazon Polly charges $4 per 1 million characters for 100+ cloud-based voices with full SSML suppor…
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…
Anthropic has expanded Claude's voice mode to support its Opus and Sonnet models, ending a period in which voice conversations were limited to the lighter Haiku model, unlocking longer reasoning and t…