Why Developers Are Dropping Cloud APIs for This Tiny 82M Speech Model

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

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.

Say goodbye to language barriers as Google Meet speech translation rolls out on Android

Timi is the news and deals reporter for Android Police, who has been reporting on technology since 2008. He has worked in ...
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

An Automated Method to Correct Artifacts in Neural Text-to-Speech Models

Abstract: Recent advances in deep learning technology have enabled high-quality speech synthesis, and text-to-speech models are widely used in a variety of applications. However, even state-of-the-art ...
IEEE

Automatic Classification of Speech Dysarthric Intelligibility Levels Using Textual Feature

Abstract: The comprehension of human language is fundamentally important in modern intelligent systems. Automatic Speech Intelligibility assessment involves determining the efficiency with which ...