In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past ...

Voice cloning technology platforms like ElevenLabs allow anyone to replicate a voice using just a few seconds of audio, for a ...

You can customize speaking speed and choose from conversational, professional, male or female voice tones depending on your ...

Siri, Alexa and other virtual assistants are turning from clunky robots into smart agents, while $500 bln OpenAI may be ...

VALL-E 2 is the latest advancement in neural codec language models that marks a milestone in zero-shot text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), achieving human parity for the first time. Building upon the ...

Season 28 of The Voice is officially coming to an end with this week’s two-part finale. The Finals are the only live show of the season, and America will be voting for their favorite singer to win the ...

Abstract: Though neural text-to-speech (TTS) models show remarkable performance, they still require a large amount of $< speech, text>$ paired dataset, which is expensive to collect. The heavy demand ...

Advanced voice typing on Pixel 10 uses the power of AI to dictate text messages accurately, but it doesn't always work as expected. Imad Khan Senior Reporter Imad is a senior reporter covering Google ...

Abstract: Large-scale pre-training has been shown to benefit speech translation tasks. However, existing multimodal pre-training efforts rely on parallel corpora for semantic alignment, potentially ...

Snoop Dogg and Niall Horan’s teams performed in The Voice Season 28 Playoffs during the December 8 episode. Each coach selected one of their four singers to move on to the Finals. The winner of the ...

Kokoro Web is powered by hexgrad/Kokoro-82M, an open-weight 82 million parameter Text-to-Speech model available on Hugging Face. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to ...