VentureBeat

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform.
TechCrunch

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

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 ...
the-decoder

Mistral's first open-weight TTS model Voxtral clones voices from three seconds of audio across nine languages

French AI startup Mistral has released Voxtral TTS, its first text-to-speech model. The model supports nine languages—including German, English, French, and Spanish—and is relatively compact at four ...
ZDNet

The best text-to-speech tools: Expert tested

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ZDNet

I tested 3 text-to-speech AI models to see which is best - hear my results

There are several AI tools available that can generate humanlike speech. Some AI voices can whisper, laugh, and perform other expressive feats. TTS tools vary in terms of level of realism and their ...
Geeky Gadgets

Gemini TTS Native Audio Out : The Future of Human-Like Audio Content

What if your audiobook could whisper secrets, your podcast could laugh with its audience, or your virtual assistant could interrupt with perfect timing—just like a real conversation? With the advent ...
Engadget

Google's new text-to-speech can switch languages on the fly

Google is enhancing Gemini's text-to-speech (TTS). On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company previewed a new TTS feature, built on native audio output, that can "converse in more expressive ways." ...
VentureBeat

Hume launches new text-to-speech model Octave that generates custom AI voices with adjustable emotions

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More New York City startup Hume AI emerged from stealth two years ago and has ...
Business Insider

The cast of 'The Sound of Music,' then and now

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. "The Sound of Music" was released 59 years ago, but it is still many families' favorite holiday movie.
GitHub

babatonga/coqui-tts-freepbx

This project facilitates the creation of high-quality sound files for Asterisk using Coqui-TTS. It supports various audio formats and offers configurable options for different TTS models and languages ...
Scientific American

Mystery of Deep-Ocean ‘Biotwang’ Sound Has Finally Been Solved

Recorded by underwater microphones, the unexplained sound—a low, sonorous grunting followed by a squeaky, mechanical echo like a frog burping in space—first rumbled through a computer speaker about a ...