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smol-audio: A Colab-Friendly Notebook Collection for Fine-Tuning Whisper, Parakeet, Voxtral, Granite Speech, and Audio Flamingo 3

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Audio AI has had a breakout year. Automatic speech recognition has gotten dramatically better with models like OpenAI’s Whisper variants, NVIDIA’s Parakeet, and Mistral’s Voxtral. Audio understanding stepped forward with models like NVIDIA’s Audio Flamingo 3. Dialogue-grade text-to-speech arrived via Nari Labs’ Dia-1.6B. And Meta shipped the Perception Encoder Audiovisual (PE-AV), a multimodal encoder capable […]

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OpenMOSS Releases MOSS-Audio: An Open-Source Foundation Model for Speech, Sound, Music, and Time-Aware Audio Reasoning

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Understanding what’s happening in an audio clip is a deceptively hard problem. Transcribing spoken words is the easy part. A truly capable system also needs to recognize who is speaking, detect their emotional state, interpret background sounds, analyze musical content, and answer time-grounded questions like ‘what did the speaker say at the 2-minute mark?’. Tackling

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xAI Launches grok-voice-think-fast-1.0: Topping τ-voice Bench at 67.3%, Outperforming Gemini, GPT Realtime, and More

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Building a production-grade voice AI agent is one of the hardest engineering challenges in applied machine learning today. It is not just about transcription accuracy. You need a system that can hold context across a five-minute conversation, invoke external APIs mid-call without an awkward pause, gracefully recover when a caller corrects themselves, and do all

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A Coding Implementation on Deepgram Python SDK for Transcription, Text-to-Speech, Async Audio Processing, and Text Intelligence

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In this tutorial, we build an advanced hands-on workflow with the Deepgram Python SDK and explore how modern voice AI capabilities come together in a single Python environment. We set up authentication, connect both synchronous and asynchronous Deepgram clients, and work directly with real audio data to understand how the SDK handles transcription, speech generation,

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xAI Launches Standalone Grok Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs, Targeting Enterprise Voice Developers

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Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has launched two standalone audio APIs — a Speech-to-Text (STT) API and a Text-to-Speech (TTS) API — both built on the same infrastructure that powers Grok Voice on mobile apps, Tesla vehicles, and Starlink customer support. The release moves xAI squarely into the competitive speech API market currently occupied by

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Google AI Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: A New Benchmark in Expressive and Controllable AI Voice

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Google has introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a preview text-to-speech model focused on improving speech quality, expressive control, and multilingual generation. Unlike previous iterations that prioritized simple conversion, this release emphasizes natural-language audio tags, native support for more than 70 languages, and native multi-speaker dialogue. This release signals a shift from ‘black-box’ audio generation toward

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NVIDIA and the University of Maryland Researchers Released Audio Flamingo Next (AF-Next): A Super Powerful and Open Large Audio-Language Model

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Understanding audio has always been the multimodal frontier that lags behind vision. While image-language models have rapidly scaled toward real-world deployment, building open models that robustly reason over speech, environmental sounds, and music — especially at length — has remained quite hard. NVIDIA and the University of Maryland researchers are now taking a direct swing

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A Hands-On Coding Tutorial for Microsoft VibeVoice Covering Speaker-Aware ASR, Real-Time TTS, and Speech-to-Speech Pipelines

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In this tutorial, we explore Microsoft VibeVoice in Colab and build a complete hands-on workflow for both speech recognition and real-time speech synthesis. We set up the environment from scratch, install the required dependencies, verify support for the latest VibeVoice models, and then walk through advanced capabilities such as speaker-aware transcription, context-guided ASR, batch audio

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Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.5 Omni: A Native Multimodal Model for Text, Audio, Video, and Realtime Interaction

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The landscape of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has shifted from experimental ‘wrappers’—where separate vision or audio encoders are stitched onto a text-based backbone—to native, end-to-end ‘omnimodal’ architectures. Alibaba Qwen team latest release, Qwen3.5-Omni, represents a significant milestone in this evolution. Designed as a direct competitor to flagship models like Gemini 3.1 Pro, the Qwen3.5-Omni

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Salesforce AI Research Releases VoiceAgentRAG: A Dual-Agent Memory Router that Cuts Voice RAG Retrieval Latency by 316x

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In the world of voice AI, the difference between a helpful assistant and an awkward interaction is measured in milliseconds. While text-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems can afford a few seconds of ‘thinking’ time, voice agents must respond within a 200ms budget to maintain a natural conversational flow. Standard production vector database queries typically add

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