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Meet ‘Kani-TTS-2’: A 400M Param Open Source Text-to-Speech Model that Runs in 3GB VRAM with Voice Cloning Support

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The landscape of generative audio is shifting toward efficiency. A new open-source contender, Kani-TTS-2, has been released by the team at nineninesix.ai. This model marks a departure from heavy, compute-expensive TTS systems. Instead, it treats audio as a language, delivering high-fidelity speech synthesis with a remarkably small footprint. Kani-TTS-2 offers a lean, high-performance alternative to […]

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Kyutai Releases Hibiki-Zero: A3B Parameter Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation Model Using GRPO Reinforcement Learning Without Any Word-Level Aligned Data

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Kyutai has released Hibiki-Zero, a new model for simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) and speech-to-text translation (S2TT). The system translates source speech into a target language in real-time. It handles non-monotonic word dependencies during the process. Unlike previous models, Hibiki-Zero does not require word-level aligned data for training. This eliminates a major bottleneck in scaling AI

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Mistral AI Launches Voxtral Transcribe 2: Pairing Batch Diarization And Open Realtime ASR For Multilingual Production Workloads At Scale

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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is becoming a core building block for AI products, from meeting tools to voice agents. Mistral’s new Voxtral Transcribe 2 family targets this space with 2 models that split cleanly into batch and realtime use cases, while keeping cost, latency, and deployment constraints in focus. The release includes: Voxtral Mini Transcribe

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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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Bengaluru Voice AI Startup Bolna Grabs $6.3 Mn to Enhance Vernacular Calls

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Bengaluru-based voice AI startup Bolna has secured $6.3 million in a seed funding round led by General Catalyst. This funding round also featured participation from Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital, and Eight Capital, as well as angel investors Aarthi Ramamurthy, Arpan Sheth, Sriwatsan Krishnan, Ravi Iyer, and Taro Fukuyama, among

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Shunya Labs Unveils AI Model for India’s Code-Mixed Speech

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Shunya Labs has announced the launch of Zero Codeswitch, a speech recognition foundation model designed to understand naturally code-mixed and multilingual Indian speech, a key limitation in existing voice-based AI systems. The Gurugram-based voice AI company said the model is built to recognise how people in India actually speak, frequently blending Hindi, English and regional

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Voice AI Startup Deepgram Picks Up $130 Mn, Looks to Serve QSR Chains

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Voice AI technology startup Deepgram has secured $130 million in a Series C funding round, achieving a valuation of $1.3 billion as it aims to expand internationally, launch new models, and pursue acquisitions. The funding round was spearheaded by AVP, an investment firm that targets tech startups across North America and Europe, with participation from

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NVIDIA AI Released Nemotron Speech ASR: A New Open Source Transcription Model Designed from the Ground Up for Low-Latency Use Cases like Voice Agents

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NVIDIA has just released its new streaming English transcription model (Nemotron Speech ASR) built specifically for low latency voice agents and live captioning. The checkpoint nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b on Hugging Face combines a cache aware FastConformer encoder with an RNNT decoder, and is tuned for both streaming and batch workloads on modern NVIDIA GPUs. Model design, architecture

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Tencent Researchers Release Tencent HY-MT1.5: A New Translation Models Featuring 1.8B and 7B Models Designed for Seamless on-Device and Cloud Deployment

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Tencent Hunyuan researchers have released HY-MT1.5, a multilingual machine translation family that targets both mobile devices and cloud systems with the same training recipe and metrics. HY-MT1.5 consists of 2 translation models, HY-MT1.5-1.8B and HY-MT1.5-7B, supports mutual translation across 33 languages with 5 ethnic and dialect variations, and is available on GitHub and Hugging Face

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