Kokoro 82M, a compact text-to-speech (TTS) model with just 82 million parameters, is proving that size isn’t everything in speech synthesis. Developed to run entirely on local hardware, this ...

Google just released its newest AI model Gemma 4, which is now both open and open source. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google just released the latest version of its ...

The Paris-based Mistral AI SAS today announced the release of Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech artificial intelligence model aimed at unseating the best-known and most powerful voice models on ...

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform.

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...

President Donald Trump now holds the modern-era record for the longest State of the Union address, surpassing President Bill Clinton’s 2000 speech. The State of the Union is the president’s annual ...

The new model, called VSSFlow, leverages a creative architecture to generate sounds and speech with a single unified system, with state-of-the-art results. Watch (and hear) some demos below. Currently ...

Touting California as a “marvel of invention and reinvention,” Gov. Gavin Newsom used his final State of the State speech on Thursday to deliver a full-throated defense of the state and his tenure in ...

AI model forecasts speech development in deaf children after cochlear implants by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

We release Qwen3-Omni, the natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation models. It is designed to process diverse inputs including text, images, audio, and video, while delivering real-time ...

Anthropic on Monday announced Claude Opus 4.5, its third major AI model launch in two months. The model excels at coding, using computers and assisting users with complex enterprise tasks, the company ...