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Google Docs on Android might soon uses Gemini for text-to-speech narration

In its initial announcement, Google didn't say if and when the feature would make its way to the Google Docs app. Code sleuth ...

Microsoft’s new AI can turn plain text into a full podcast — and it’s freakishly good at it

Microsoft's road to total AI domination continues with an interesting looking open-source project called VibeVoice. This text ...
TweakTown

Microsoft's VibeVoice uses AI to create 90-minute podcasts with multiple speakers

VibeVoice is a new open-source AI tool that can generate a full 90 minute audio podcast recording with multiple speakers from ...
Slator

Voice Cloning Meets Emotional Speech Synthesis With Alibaba’s Marco-Voice Model

Alibaba’s Marco-Voice pairs voice cloning with controllable emotion for more natural and expressive synthetic speech in ...
Slator

Microsoft Research Unveils VibeVoice for Long-Form Speech Synthesis

Microsoft’s VibeVoice is an open-source text-to-speech model for podcast-length, multi-speaker audio that captures the ...
Geeky Gadgets

Kokoro 82M : Lightweight Text-to-Speech (TTS) AI Model Everyone’s Talking About

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 ...
VentureBeat

Groq and PlayAI just made voice AI sound way more human — here’s how

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Groq and PlayAI announced a partnership ...
Business Wire

Deepgram Unveils Aura-2: The World’s Most Professional, Cost-Effective, and Enterprise-Grade Text-to-Speech Model

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 ...
Geeky Gadgets

OpenAI Launches New Speech-to-Text AI Audio Models API for Developers

OpenAI has today introduced a suite of advanced audio models and tools through its API, designed to empower developers in creating sophisticated, voice-driven applications. These updates include ...
ZDNet

I tested 3 text-to-speech AI models to see which is best - hear my results

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 ...
InfoWorld

OpenAI previews Realtime API for speech-to-speech apps

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 ...
VentureBeat

aiOla drops ultra-fast ‘multi-head’ speech recognition model, beats OpenAI Whisper

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Today, Israeli AI startup aiOla announced ...