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

Language as a Bridge: Semantic-guided Cross-modal Gait Recognition via Text Prototype and Feature Decoupling

Abstract: Gait recognition aims to identify individuals based on walking patterns in a long-range, contactless manner. While camera-based methods have advanced significantly, their performance ...
eWeek

9 Windows 11 Features You’re Probably Not Using, Including Built-In AI Assistant

Windows 11 is packed with hidden features beyond AI. Discover nine powerful tools, shortcuts, and settings that can boost ...
TechCrunch

Cohere launches an open source voice model specifically for transcription

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 ...
GitHub

This project is a simple and practical face recognition-based attendance system built using Python, Flask, and OpenCV.

Face-Attendance/ │ ├── app.py # Main Flask application ├── utils.py # Face detection and capture functions ├── train_model.py # Model training (KNN) ├── attendance.csv # Attendance records ├── ...
Hacker

Best Speech to Text APIs to Build an AI Notetaker in 2026

AssemblyAI builds advanced speech language models that power next-generation voice AI applications. AssemblyAI builds advanced speech language models that power next-generation voice AI applications.
marktechpost

Google AI Releases WAXAL: A Multilingual African Speech Dataset for Training Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Models

Speech technology still has a data distribution problem. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have improved rapidly for high-resource languages, but many African ...