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…