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Tencent AI Open Sources Covo-Audio: A 7B Speech Language Model and Inference Pipeline for Real-Time Audio Conversations and Reasoning

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Tencent AI Lab has released Covo-Audio, a 7B-parameter end-to-end Large Audio Language Model (LALM). The model is designed to unify speech processing and language intelligence by directly processing continuous audio inputs and generating audio outputs within a single architecture. System Architecture The Covo-Audio framework consists of four primary components designed for seamless cross-modal interaction: Audio […]

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Google AI Releases WAXAL: A Multilingual African Speech Dataset for Training Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Models

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Speech technology still has a data distribution problem. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have improved rapidly for high-resource languages, but many African languages remain poorly represented in open corpora. A team of researchers from Google and other collaborators introduce WAXAL, an open multilingual speech dataset for African languages covering 24 languages, with

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Fish Audio Releases Fish Audio S2: A New Generation of Expressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) with Absurdly Controllable Emotion

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The landscape of Text-to-Speech (TTS) is moving away from modular pipelines toward integrated Large Audio Models (LAMs). Fish Audio’s release of S2-Pro, the flagship model within the Fish Speech ecosystem, represents a shift toward open architectures capable of high-fidelity, multi-speaker synthesis with sub-150ms latency. The release provides a framework for zero-shot voice cloning and granular

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Qwen Researchers Release Qwen3-TTS: an Open Multilingual TTS Suite with Real-Time Latency and Fine-Grained Voice Control

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Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team has open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, a family of multilingual text-to-speech models that target three core tasks in one stack, voice clone, voice design, and high quality speech generation. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15621v1 Model family and capabilities Qwen3-TTS uses a 12Hz speech tokenizer and 2 language model sizes, 0.6B and 1.7B, packaged into 3 main tasks. The

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Microsoft Releases VibeVoice-ASR: A Unified Speech-to-Text Model Designed to Handle 60-Minute Long-Form Audio in a Single Pass

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Microsoft has released VibeVoice-ASR as part of the VibeVoice family of open source frontier voice AI models. VibeVoice-ASR is described as a unified speech-to-text model that can handle 60-minute long-form audio in a single pass and output structured transcriptions that encode Who, When, and What, with support for Customized Hotwords. VibeVoice sits in a single

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FlashLabs Researchers Release Chroma 1.0: A 4B Real Time Speech Dialogue Model With Personalized Voice Cloning

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Chroma 1.0 is a real time speech to speech dialogue model that takes audio as input and returns audio as output while preserving the speaker identity across multi turn conversations. It is presented as the first open source end to end spoken dialogue system that combines low latency interaction with high fidelity personalized voice cloning

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Inworld AI Releases TTS-1.5 For Realtime, Production Grade Voice Agents

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Inworld AI has introduced Inworld TTS-1.5, an upgrade to its TTS-1 family that targets realtime voice agents with strict constraints on latency, quality, and cost. TTS-1.5 is described as the number top ranked text to speech system on Artificial Analysis and is designed to be more expressive and more stable than prior generations while remaining

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How to Design a Fully Streaming Voice Agent with End-to-End Latency Budgets, Incremental ASR, LLM Streaming, and Real-Time TTS

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In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end streaming voice agent that mirrors how modern low-latency conversational systems operate in real time. We simulate the complete pipeline, from chunked audio input and streaming speech recognition to incremental language model reasoning and streamed text-to-speech output, while explicitly tracking latency at every stage. By working with strict latency

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NVIDIA Releases PersonaPlex-7B-v1: A Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Model Designed for Natural and Full-Duplex Conversations

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NVIDIA Researchers released PersonaPlex-7B-v1, a full duplex speech to speech conversational model that targets natural voice interactions with precise persona control. From ASR→LLM→TTS to a single full duplex model Conventional voice assistants usually run a cascade. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) converts speech to text, a language model generates a text answer, and Text to Speech

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