Browsing: Multilingual

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…

Generative AI

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team has open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, a family of multilingual text-to-speech models that target three core tasks in one stack, voice clone, voice design, and…

How do you build a single speech recognition system that can understand 1,000’s of languages including many that never had working ASR (automatic speech recognition) models…