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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…

Building natural conversational experiences requires speech synthesis that keeps pace with real-time interactions. Today, we’re excited to announce the new Bidirectional Streaming API for Amazon Polly,…

In the landscape of enterprise AI, the bridge between unstructured audio and actionable text has often been a bottleneck of proprietary APIs and complex cascaded pipelines.…

Tencent AI Lab has released Covo-Audio, a 7B-parameter end-to-end Large Audio Language Model (LALM). The model is designed to unify speech processing and language intelligence by…

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…

This post is a collaboration between AWS, NVIDIA and Heidi.  Automatic speech recognition (ASR), often called speech-to-text (STT) is becoming increasingly critical across industries like healthcare,…

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The bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, designed to protect minors from age-inappropriate online content, will head to the House floor for a vote. But critics say…

Anchoring in the African AI ecosystem Crucial to the WAXAL project was our commitment to working with, and contributing directly to, the African AI ecosystem. The…