Kokoro 82M is a lightweight yet powerful text-to-speech (TTS) model designed for local use. Unlike many cloud-based TTS solutions, Kokoro 82M operates entirely offline, making sure both privacy and ...

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deepgram, the leading voice AI platform for enterprise use cases, today announced Aura-2, its next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) model purpose-built for real-time ...

There are several AI tools available that can generate humanlike speech. Some AI voices can whisper, laugh, and perform other expressive feats. TTS tools vary in terms of level of realism and their ...

Roughly two weeks ago, Google Docs gained a key feature that should make absorbing swaths of information an easier task. The tech giant gave the platform the ability to read your documents out loud, ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PlayAI, the voice AI platform powering the future of conversational AI, announced that it has raised a $21 million Seed round led by Kindred Ventures and 500 Global ...

OpenAI announced its most advanced speech-to-speech AI model yet, GPT-Realtime. The new model, now available through OpenAI’s updated Realtime API, is said to be more reliable and cheaper than the ...

Realtime API supports multi-model text and speech experiences including natural speech-to-speech conversations using preset voices already supported in the API. OpenAI has introduced a public beta of ...

OpenAI Gives Its Agents a Voice – Now a ‘Medieval Knight’ Can Read Your Work Emails Your email has been sent The text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools are all based on GPT-4o. OpenAI hinted it may ...

Qwen3-Omni is available now on Hugging Face, Github, and via Alibaba's API as a faster "Flash" variant.