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

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

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

Prompt English is a stripped-down, straight-talking of natural English designed for clear AI communication. By removing ...

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.

A federal judge ordered that more than 1,000 employees working for government-run broadcasting entities, including VOA, be returned to work, reversing a key part of Trump administration efforts to ...

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth found that Lake’s leadership of the U.S. Agency for Global Media violated federal law because she was never formally nominated or confirmed to the position. The ...

PCWorld reports that Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant now features voice mode, allowing developers to control the coding tool through verbal commands. Currently rolling out to 5% of users with ...

Anthropic is bringing Voice Mode to Claude Code, the company’s AI coding assistant for developers. The launch of voice mode marks a significant step toward more hands-free, conversational coding ...

Amy Madigan accepted her Actor Award in style Sunday, treating attendees to a live reenactment of her run from "Weapons." Upon her win Sunday, Madigan ran to the stage in the same distinct posture as ...

Many conservatives quickly took to social media to praise President Trump's State of the Union speech, which lasted just under two hours, energizing Republicans and riling Democrats. "It’s not just an ...