Speechify changed its voice-cloning API on September 23 so that new clones require verified speaker consent across every API version, replacing the plain consent form field with a challenge and a reco…
Speechify released Simba 3.2 and Simba 3.0, text-to-speech models that cut time-to-first-audio to roughly 100ms on Coval's benchmark while keeping the same voices, quality, and per-character pricing. …
A developer released Claude Read Aloud, a Claude Code plugin that reads Claude's replies out loud in a user-selected voice, addressing eye fatigue during long work sessions and aiding visually impaire…
Speechify's SIMBA 3.2 text-to-speech model ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis TTS leaderboard and Voice Arena's real-time category, beating ElevenLabs, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind in blind listening …
Gwyneth Paltrow is expanding her wellness empire into artificial intelligence, investing in AI startups such as Forethought AI, Speechify, Potion AI, and Moments of Space, and planning a private dinne…
A developer's weekly roundup covers six posts on voice AI, including the EU AI Act's synthetic audio watermarking rules that took effect August 2, requiring TTS providers to implement marking pipeline…
Kakao's Kanana-o model now accepts plain-language voice instructions such as 'read it in a sad voice' or 'read it in a Gyeongsang dialect', reflecting them in speed, volume, pitch, emotion, intonation…
Wispr Flow and Speechify now both offer voice typing, with Speechify's free unlimited Voice Typing launched in 2026 challenging Wispr Flow's paid dictation. Wispr Flow Pro costs $15 monthly or $12 per…
Speechify serves 500,000+ dynamic pages across 40+ languages to 60 million users on Vercel, achieving 99.99% uptime and a 50% cost reduction after migrating from its previous infrastructure. The AI wo…
Spiel, a free and open-source Chrome extension, reads articles and PDFs aloud using a local neural voice model on Macs with Apple Silicon, ensuring privacy by processing everything on-device without c…