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

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 ...

We don’t need to curb protests. We have police. Manhattan: Last week, I testified before the City Council to oppose one of the problematic “buffer zone” bills highlighted in a recent op-ed (“Why we ...

Researchers have developed a tool for identifying children at risk of speech disorders, reducing unnecessary treatment for common speech errors that often resolve on their own. The research, led by ...

Talking is one of the most complex actions the human body performs, yet the process of turning thoughts into speech is coordinated on millisecond timescales. For some children, the brain struggles to ...

The new model, called VSSFlow, leverages a creative architecture to generate sounds and speech with a single unified system, with state-of-the-art results. Watch (and hear) some demos below. Currently ...

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Attempting to balance your TV's volume level to try and somehow hear nearly silent dialogue without being blown away by unbelievably loud musical stabs is an unsatisfying battle. It can leave you in a ...

Podcaster Joe Rogan marveled Wednesday at a viral 2010 clip of President Barack Obama defending deportation and immigration enforcement. The clip, shared in a post on the social media platform X, ...

In today’s digital world, audio content has become a crucial element of communication, learning, and entertainment. Podcasts, video narrations, online courses, and voice assistants all rely on voice ...

The way books are created is evolving rapidly, especially as audio formats and digital workflows become more closely connected. Writers are no longer limited to typing every draft from scratch or ...