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Voice AI has a dirty secret. Most text-to-speech systems sound fine — until they don’t. They can read a sentence. What they cannot do is mean…

import subprocess, sys def pip(*pkgs): subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, “-m”, “pip”, “install”, “-q”, *pkgs]) pip(“budoux”) import json, time, textwrap, html, random, re, os, tempfile from pathlib import Path import…

Many organizations are archiving large media libraries, analyzing contact center recordings, preparing training data for AI, or processing on-demand video for subtitles. When data volumes grow…

Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-VL-450M, an updated version of its earlier LFM2-VL-450M vision-language model. The new release introduces bounding box prediction, improved instruction following, expanded multilingual…

Microsoft has announced the release of Harrier-OSS-v1, a family of three multilingual text embedding models designed to provide high-quality semantic representations across a wide range of…

Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, an open-weight text-to-speech model that marks the company’s first major move into audio generation. Following the release of its transcription…

Speech technology still has a data distribution problem. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have improved rapidly for high-resource languages, but many African languages…

IBM has released Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact speech-language model designed for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional automatic speech translation (AST). The release…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is becoming a core building block for AI products, from meeting tools to voice agents. Mistral’s new Voxtral Transcribe 2 family targets…

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