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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion of their vested equity at a $22 billion valuation, doubling the $11 billion valuation the company hit when it raised $500 million in February. The recent $300…
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Evaluation, however, hasn't kept pace: it remains fragmented and unstandardized. The gold standard is human preference scores such as MOS or MUSHRA (more on metrics). To this end, several arena-based leaderboards have established themselves as useful reference points for the community: These…
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OpenAI introduced new capabilities for its software engineering agent Codex, making it more useful beyond a developer’s laptop with reusable cloud development environments that can be accessed from any device. The update, announced at OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday, is one of…
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Voice agents, interactive learning applications, accessibility tools, and customer service assistants need to respond without long silent pauses. In this tutorial, you deploy a text-to-speech (TTS) model on Amazon SageMaker AI that can start playing speech before it finishes generating the full…
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When the call came, Tarini Padmanabhuni’s grandfather believed he was talking to his brother. The voice on the other end of the line said he’d been kidnapped and that the only way to get him back was to pay a ransom. Her…
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Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate has raised $25 in new funding for its platform that uses an array of small models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and policy enforcement for voice agents in regulated industries. The…
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Thoughtful Things says Engram is a ‘field recorder for latent space’ and circuit-bending tiny AI models. Thoughtful Things says Engram is a ‘field recorder for latent space’ and circuit-bending tiny AI models. Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign…
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With voice cloning, you can generate new speech in a target speaker’s voice from a short reference recording, without retraining a model. You can now deploy the publicly available Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base text-to-speech model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to a fully managed, real-time inference…
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We’re building personal AI agents for everyone and a whole family of devices that let you connect with them from anywhere. We launched Muse, a first-of-a-kind personal AI agent that proactively helps you meet your goals, earlier this month. At Connect, we…
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Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are our most expressive audio generation models yet. Generate custom character voices and direct scene dialogue across Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Notebook, and Google Vids. Google just launched new…
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Today at Connect 2026, we shared updates to Meta Ray-Ban Display, including new features, online ordering, and an expansion into five new markets. Navigate Hands-Free Heads-up navigation is a feature consumers consistently tell us they love in our Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses,…
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Today at Connect, we announced Ray-Ban Meta Audio, our first-ever audio glasses, and our biggest expansion of AI glasses yet through our partnership with EssilorLuxottica. We’re building AI glasses for everyone. By the end of the year, we’ll offer more than 100…