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Fish Audio Releases Live 3, a Full-Duplex Voice Model That Reacts in 186 ms

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Fish Audio has released Live 3, a full-duplex voice model built for real-time voice agents. The Fish Audio Live 3 full-duplex voice model keeps listening while it speaks. That lets a caller pause, say “mm-hmm,” or change their mind without breaking the call. For developers, the pitch is simple. Turn-taking moves out of hand-tuned pipeline

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Zyphra Releases ZONOS3-Mini: Open-Source TTS With 100M Active Parameters

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Zyphra has released ZONOS3-Mini, an open-source text-to-speech model built for real-time use on local devices. The ZONOS3-Mini text-to-speech model is a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) with 800M total and 100M active parameters. It supports zero-shot voice cloning and word-level delivery control. Weights ship under Apache 2.0. For AI devs, size is the key point.

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Soniox STT v6 Adds Agent Text Input and Echo Filtering for Voice Agents

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Soniox has released Soniox STT v6, the latest generation of its speech-to-text API. Soniox STT v6 is a speech-to-text model that reads what a voice agent says while hearing the caller. It uses that text to recognize short replies and to drop the agent’s own voice. The release ships as stt-rt-v6 for streaming and stt-async-v6

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Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model

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Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a voice from 1 reference clip and transcript. It supports 23 languages, 12 more than its predecessor. The weights and code ship under Apache 2.0. For developers, the catch is competitive multilingual accuracy at a size

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Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Speech Model Trained Only on Speech

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Block’s AI research lab has released Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on human conversation. Block announced it on October 23, 2026 as a research preview. Dessa is a speech-to-speech model from Block that listens and talks at the same time. Block says it used no text and no pretrained models. That is a

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AssemblyAI Ships AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents

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AssemblyAI has released AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model, now generally available. The AssemblyAI-TTS-1 text-to-speech API targets voice agents running on live phone calls. In that setting, latency and pronunciation decide whether a caller stays on the line. Pricing is $15 per 1M characters, with no annual contract and no concurrency tier to buy. For developers

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters

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NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weights speech LLM built for transcription. One model handles 40 languages and recordings up to 1 hour. A text instruction picks the output style for each request. Options include verbatim, written form, speaker-attributed, contextual and translated output. For developers, it can replace separate ASR, diarization and alignment tools.

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voice Agents, Game Characters and Robots

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NVIDIA has just released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model for fast conversational agents. It targets voice assistants, game NPCs and robot interfaces running locally on RTX, Jetson and Spark hardware. The model is post-trained from Google’s Gemma 4 E4B using reinforcement learning only. For developers, this is agent behavior in

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Gradium Open-Sources Phonon, a 31M-Parameter On-Device TTS Model Under Apache 2.0

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Gradium has open-sourced Phonon, a family of small text-to-speech models built to run on the device. The Gradium Phonon on-device TTS model comes in 31M and 40M sizes. The English Phonon 31m ships under Apache 2.0 and fits in a 64.5 MB file. Developers get natural speech with no cloud call, no GPU and no

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IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation

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IBM has released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, a new open speech-language model for transcription and translation. Granite Speech 5.0 2B is a 2B-parameter model from IBM that turns speech into text in 6 languages. It ships under Apache 2.0. IBM also updated 2 existing models: the edge-focused Turbo CTC and the diarization-focused 4.1 2B Plus.

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