The Agora AI model evaluation platform (Conversational) version 2.0 has expanded its testing area to 10 major global cities, ...

AI voice generators have evolved far beyond the robotic monotones of early text-to-speech systems. In 2025, these platforms can now produce highly realistic, natural-sounding voices that are nearly ...

Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits "emergent" qualities improving its ability to speak even complex sentences naturally. The ...

Alibaba’s Marco-Voice pairs voice cloning with controllable emotion for more natural and expressive synthetic speech 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 ...

OpenAI has today introduced a suite of advanced audio models and tools through its API, designed to empower developers in creating sophisticated, voice-driven applications. These updates include ...

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deepgram, the leading voice AI platform for enterprise use cases, today announced Aura-2, its next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) model purpose-built for real-time ...

Humans may be edging closer to a digital version of the Babel fish — a fictional creature in Douglas Adams’s science fiction creation The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — that enables instant ...

The ' Play 3.0 mini ' has been released, which supports over 30 languages and can read text in multiple voices and accents. It also supports Japanese, and its selling point is the 'naturalness of the ...