Tavus previewed Griffin-Lite on October 1, 2026, a full-duplex model for video calls that sees, hears and talks at once, joining OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 and three open-weight models from NVIDIA and Kyutai…
Inworld, a research lab and inference provider focused on real-time AI, detailed the unit economics behind free consumer AI apps and cited customer deployments including Wishroll's Status app, which r…
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…
Gradium, the Paris-based voice AI company spun out of the Kyutai research lab, launched Voice Design, a tool that generates new synthetic voices from a text description in seconds, live in its API and…
Famulor added Inworld as a new voice provider for AI assistants in an update dated August 30, 2026, offering two selectable voice variants, according to the Famulor changelog. Famulor positions the In…
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…
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.…
The AI industry is shifting its focus from raw model intelligence to 'intelligence per dollar,' as many models become good enough for business tasks and buyers prioritize cost efficiency. Amazon's reb…
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…
Telnyx now offers Inworld Realtime TTS 2 through its APIs and Voice AI Assistants, providing developers with expressive voices optimized for realtime conversation across managed agents and custom voic…
Inworld's TTS-1.5 Max model ignores common paralinguistic tags like `[laugh]` and `[sigh]`, rendering them as silence or literal text instead of expressive audio. Developers at HoneyChat, a Telegram-n…
This article provides instructions for creating a narrated demo video by using the `agent-browser` tool to capture screenshots of a web application, then generating synchronized voiceover audio via th…