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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
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 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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In this tutorial, we use Whistle, Cactus Compute’s speech-to-text model, a 16.9 MB file that runs on a CPU, transcribes seven languages, and returns word timestamps and probabilities. The model card claims it beats Whisper base on LibriSpeech; we test it on seeded test-clean and test-other samples, comparing Whistle with Whisper tiny and base on
Mistral AI just released Voxtral 3. Mistral Voxtral 3 is a speech model family paired with a voice agent SDK. It ships 3 transcription models, 1 text-to-speech model and an SDK built on LiveKit. One place for listening, reasoning, tool calls and speaking. All 4 models are in public preview on the Mistral API. TL;DR
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SpaceXAI just released Grok Voice 3.0. Grok Voice 3.0 is a SpaceXAI speech-to-speech model that listens, reasons, calls tools and speaks. It now ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index with a score of 86.9. For developers, the endpoint, events and $0.08 per minute price are unchanged from Grok Voice 2.0. TL;DR Runs on:
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This week, Fish Audio released Fish Audio Drama 3. Drama 3 is a text-to-speech model from Fish Audio that takes plain-language acting direction. It is a 35B mixture-of-experts model with about 3B parameters active per token. The weights are on Hugging Face, and the model is also live in the Fish Audio API. For developers,
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AI live translation tools turn speech into translated captions or speech while people are still talking. The market now spans consumer apps, meeting add-ons, event platforms and developer APIs. We checked 12 tools against official product, pricing and documentation pages. What is an AI live translation tool? It listens, transcribes, translates and outputs captions or
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The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B parameter Arabic speech recognition model. It focuses on the Emirati dialect and also transcribes English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. In TII’s evaluation, Falcon-ASR posts a 20.92% average word error rate (WER) across 6 Arabic test sets. That beats the best published entry
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Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first streaming speech-to-text (STT) model. It launched on October 1, 2026, alongside 2 text-to-speech models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. Artificial Analysis ranks it #1 of 38 models for final and first partial transcript accuracy. The model targets voice agents, live captions and dictation, where latency decides the experience. What Microsoft
