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Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER on Artificial Analysis, Best-in-Class FLEURS Accuracy, and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription

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Last week Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Transcribe-1.5. It is the second iteration of the company’s in-house speech-to-text family. The model targets accuracy across 43 languages, accents, and noisy environments. The Microsoft team positions it for production transcription workloads. What is MAI-Transcribe-1.5 MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. It takes audio as input and […]

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 ASR: A 600M-Parameter Cache-Aware Streaming Model Transcribing 40 Language-Locales in Real Time

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NVIDIA’s Nemotron Speech team has released Nemotron 3.5 ASR. It is a 600M-parameter streaming Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. A single checkpoint transcribes 40 language-locales in real time. Punctuation and capitalization are built in natively. The model ships as open weights on Hugging Face. The license is OpenMDW-1.1. The architecture is a Cache-Aware FastConformer-RNNT. What

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Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights

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Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model. It generates expressive speech from both text and audio context. The model uses residual vector quantization (RVQ) to widen its sonic range. This avoids scaling a single flat vocabulary while keeping parameter count fixed. What is MisoTTS MisoTTS is an 8B-parameter text-to-dialogue RVQ Transformer. It

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Best Text-to-Speech TTS Models in 2026: A Benchmark-Based Comparison

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Text-to-speech TTS moved fast over the past year. The line between synthetic and human speech narrowed. Latency dropped below 100 milliseconds for some real-time systems. Emotional control became a standard feature rather than a research demo. This guide reviews the models that really matter in 2026. It is written for AI professionals choosing a model

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Stability AI Releases Stable Audio 3: A Family of Fast Latent Diffusion Models for Audio Generation and Editing

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Stability AI has released open weights for Stable Audio 3 along with a technical research paper. Stable Audio 3 is a family of latent diffusion models that generate stereo audio at 44.1 kHz. The models support variable-length outputs, inpainting-based editing, and fast inference. What Is Stable Audio 3? Stable Audio 3 is a family of

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Meet OmniVoice Studio: A Local, Open-Source Alternative to ElevenLabs

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ElevenLabs charges between $5 and $330 per month for voice AI services. Every audio file you process goes through their cloud servers. For those looking for an open source alternative of ElevenLabs, OmniVoice Studio is good fit as an open-source desktop application that runs the same categories of tasks locally. It is a very interesting

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StepFun Releases StepAudio 2.5 Realtime: An End-to-End Voice Model with Roleplay-Specific RLHF and Paralinguistic Comprehension

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StepFun, the Shanghai-based AI lab, released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime. It is an end-to-end real-time speech large language model with fully customizable persona capabilities. StepAudio 2.5 Realtime is a voice model that operates in real time. Unlike pipeline-based systems that separate speech recognition, reasoning, and synthesis into sequential steps, this is an end-to-end model. Audio goes

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Supertone Releases Supertonic v3: On-Device Text-to-Speech Model with 31-Language Support, Fewer Reading Failures, and Expression Tags

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Supertone released Supertonic 3, the third generation of its on-device, ONNX-based text-to-speech system. Supertonic 3 ships with 31-language support, improved reading accuracy, fewer repeat and skip failures, and v2-compatible public ONNX assets. It is Lightning Fast, On-Device, Multilingual and Accurate TTS. What Changed from v2 to v3 Compared with Supertonic 2, Supertonic 3 reduces repeat

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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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