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

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Five speech recognition models now sit within half a percentage point of each other on the Hugging Face Open ASR leaderboard, and on Thursday a new entrant claimed the top spot. Cohere released ...

Taylor Swift has made history once more — this time at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. The pop superstar nabbed seven wins at the 2026 ceremony, achieving the record for the artist with the most awards ...

It begins: anyone who’s ever spent too much time on social media—or simply suffered any setbacks while simultaneously having social media accounts—can claim “addiction” and reasonably expect a big ...

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 ...

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The Oklahoma Senate passed Senate Bill 1725 on Wednesday, aimed at strengthening free speech protections on public college and university campuses across the state. The bill, ...

Better known for its artificial intelligence software solutions, Hugging Face unveiled the Reachy Mini open-source desktop robot last year. It is designed ...