Top Text-to-Speech Models of 2026: Proprietary vs Open Source Compared

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

Mistral Completes Voxtral Speech Stack With Launch of Text-to-Speech Model

Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, extending its model family into speech generation and enabling end-to-end voice workflows.
IEEE

Speech Emotional Recognition using XGBoost and Deep Learning Algorithm and Multisource Datasets

Abstract: Speech emotional recognition (SER) focuses on developing computers' comprehension and response to human emotional tones and is a key field of research in human-machine interaction. This ...
GitHub

Python integration with the Verbio Speech Center cloud.

Python integration with the Verbio Speech Center cloud. This repository contains a python example of how to use the Verbio Technologies Speech Center cloud both for speech recognition and speech ...
Deadline.com

Harrison Ford’s Earnest Actor Awards Speech Honors Craft: “We Share The Privilege Of Working In The World Of Ideas, Of Empathy, Of Imagination”

Only Harrison Ford could so effortlessly toggle between pulling on audience heartstrings and cracking whip-smart jokes. In his acceptance speech for this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award from ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Viola Davis Incites Inspiration During NAACP Image Awards Speech: “Our Crown Has Already Been Bought, All We Have to Do Is Wear It”

The EGOT winner was honored with the Chairman’s Award during Saturday night's awards ceremony. By McKinley Franklin Viola Davis delivered a powerful speech at the 2026 NAACP Image Awards on Saturday ...
Wired

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’

United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the ...
The Conversation

Bunnings decision may open door to facial recognition surveillance free‑for‑all

A seemingly minor decision handed down last week by the Administrative Review Tribunal may open the door to widespread use of facial recognition technology in shops and other privately owned spaces in ...
NBC News

How ICE agents are using facial recognition technology to bring surveillance to the streets

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit whose increasing use on observers and bystanders is alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers ...
Microsoft

Paza: Introducing automatic speech recognition benchmarks and models for low resource languages

According to the 2025 Microsoft AI Diffusion Report approximately one in six people globally had used a generative AI product. Yet for billions of people, the promise of voice interaction still falls ...
USA Today

Read Bad Bunny's full Grammys speech after historic win

If there's one thing Bad Bunny is going to do, it's put his beloved island of Puerto Rico on top time and time again. After taking home two Grammy awards for best música urbana album and best global ...