Google AI Edge Eloquent is a free, offline-first voice dictation app that automatically cleans up speech and enters a market where paid rivals like Willow and Wispr Flow charge up to $15 a month.The ...

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is powering faster and ‘more natural’ AI audio in Search Live. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she ...

Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis ...

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Open source TTS models Kokoro, Orpheus, and Piper are tested on symbols, abbreviations, and prosody with CER and MOS results.

Microsoft Corp. is adding a dedicated health assistant to its Copilot chatbot, joining the ranks of technology companies betting that customers will turn to artificial intelligence tools for medical ...

Best Original Song honorees Yu Han Lee, EJAE, and Mark Sonnenblick shared their full remarks backstage. Backstage in the interview room, singer/songwriter EJAE was the first to acknowledge the moment, ...

Kokoro 82M is an 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that beats many TTS APIs while running locally on CPUs, including ...

ChatGPT is OpenAI’s leading AI assistant, powered by GPT-5.4, offering coding, research, image generation, and real-time web ...

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 ...

Google is back with a second big update to Gemini for Home this month that notably improves the voice assistant. There are a number of updates to the Gemini for Home voice assistant today. Google has ...

Customer conversations with chatbots can include contact information and personal details that make it easier for scammers to launch phishing attacks and commit fraud. Since Sears is still a trusted ...