IBM just released Granite 4.0 1B Speech, a compact... and efficient speech-language model, designed for multilingual speech recognition and bidirectional speech translation. New #1 on the OpenASR leaderboard! It can even run in your browser on WebGPU, thanks to 🤗 Transformers.jsshow more

Two free regenerations. You can now regenerate Text to... Speech and Speech to Speech two more times for free on our site. If you're not happy with your first generation, adjust the style settings and regenerate at no additional cost. Read on for all the details:show more

JUST IN: Meta AI introduces Voicebox, an all-in-one generative... speech model. Voicebox is an impressive breakthrough! It could do for speech what other models like GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion have done for text and images. Some key details: - Voicebox can synthesize speech across 6 languages - It's a general-purpose model that can perform tasks it wasn't trained on. It can perform noise removal, content editing, style conversion, and more - Supports in-context text-to-speech synthesis and cross-lingual style transfer - It's 20x faster than current models and outperforms single-purpose models through in-context learning paper: blog:show more

Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM) can now run in... your browser w/ WebGPU (+ fp16), meaning up to 8x faster image encoding (10s → 1.25s)! 🤯⚡️ Video is not sped up! Everything runs 100% locally thanks to 🤗 Transformers.js and onnxruntime-web! 🔗 Demo:show more

We’ve been working closely with OpenAI for the past... few months to test the new Realtime API. I’m excited to share some thoughts on the best way to productize speech-to-speech for language learning, and announce the first thing we’ve built here, Live Roleplays. 🧵show more

🗣️ Dictate in multiple languages in Visual Studio Code.... It now uses a multilingual on-device model by default, keeping audio on your device. It can follow your configured language, use your system or browser locale, or automatically detect the language.show more

Also, you can now add the ability to talk... to your agents. Cloudflare /voice adds real-time voice to the Agents SDK. ~30 lines of server code to get started, with built-in speech to text and text to speech on Workers AI.show more

President Trump says he only reads about 20% of... his speeches, and ad libs the rest — while of COURSE throwing shade at Joe Biden 🤣🔥 "Isn't it nice to know that you have somebody that doesn't have to read the speech? And it's even BETTER to know that you have somebody that CAN read a speech if he wants to." 😂 "The other guy couldn't even read his speech."show more

Big moment for text-to-speech. Qwen just open-sourced a text-to-speech... model that lets you clone voices, design new ones, and control speech using natural language. Let me explain what I mean: You can literally tell it "speak in a cheerful tone with slight nervousness," and it actually does that. No complex audio engineering needed. What makes this special: - 3-second voice cloning - Covers 10 languages: English, German, French, and more - Latency as low as 97ms for real-time applications - Supports both streaming and non-streaming generation The model comes in two sizes (0.6B and 1.7B parameters), so you can pick based on your hardware and quality needs. Three modes to work with: 1. Custom Voice: Use pre-built premium voices with instruction-based style control 2. Voice Design: Describe the voice you want in plain English (or Chinese), and the model creates it 3. Voice Clone: Provide a 3-second reference audio and clone that voice The best part? It integrates with vLLM for production deployment and has a simple Python package you can pip install. I've shared a link to the GitHub repo in the next tweet.show more

Just dropped on HF — NeuTTS Air Next-gen on-device... TTS that matches cloud-level quality while staying fully open source. > Real-time speech synthesis on CPU/GPU > 3-second voice cloning, no cloud or data upload > Compact: under 200 MB, runs on mobile and edge devices > Multilingual and expressive > Developed by Neuphonic , optimized for speed and fidelityshow more

Today Meta released "Code Llama", a large language model... fine-tuned for coding tasks. It's publicly available and can be used for commercial use! It outperforms GPT 3.5 and you can even run it locally on your Macbook using Ollama.show more

Gavin Newsom just dropped this new video on Trump’s... speech in Davos and it’s worth a watch. Why is Trump so obsessed with him????show more

Today, we're shipping MLX support for TADA, our open-source... text-to-speech model, which means the entire pipeline (LLM, flow-matching, and decoder) can now run locally on any Apple Silicon device. We're seeing a 45% reduction in memory usage and a 10x speed-up when using it quantized. With these improvements, you can use TADA on-device for OpenClaw or any personal chatbot. If you own a MacBook, Mac Mini, or Mac Studio, record a 10-second clip of any voice, type any text, and get high-quality, natural and expressive speech in real-time. Completely offline, completely free.show more

A speech model can support Arabic and still struggle... with local dialects. Fine-tuning NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 ASR cut word error rate on Najdi and Hijazi Saudi Arabic from 55% to 30%. Check out our new tutorial and learn how to adapt it for other dialects and languages:show more

Just dropped on HF: kani-tts-370m A lightweight open-source text-to-speech... model that sounds great and runs fast! > 370M parameters — efficient and deployable on consumer GPUs > NanoCodec + LFM2-350M > Natural & expressive voice trained with modern neural TTS techniques > Fast inference: real-time on a single RTX 3060show more