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 ElevenLabs, the highly-valued AI voice ...

Not so long ago, generative AI could only communicate with human users via text. Now it's increasingly being given the power of speech -- and this ability is improving by the day. On Thursday, AI ...

The speech recognition-focused startup Deepgram Inc. today launched a new text-to-speech model called Aura-2, saying it will be a game-changer for real-time voice applications. According to the ...

Microsoft’s AI Manager Mustafa Suleyman recently unveiled in a social media post a new feature called “Scripted Mode” in ...

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 ...

The dream of a Babel fish — the translating animal envisioned by classic science-fiction franchise The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — could be a bit closer to reality. Researchers at tech giant ...

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 Have you ever thought about what it is like ...

Google is enhancing Gemini's text-to-speech (TTS). On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company previewed a new TTS feature, built on native audio output, that can "converse in more expressive ways." ...

TranscribeGlass, a company that produces glasses with live text-to-speech transcription, will launch this week. The company develops glasses that allow hearing-impaired users to engage with the world ...

Curriculum and assessment company Amplify has introduced a custom Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system to support its instructional products. The system converts spoken language into written text ...