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

We’re releasing access to Speech-1, our conversational speech model... designed specifically for customer phone calls (8khz telephony) to reduce call drop rates.show 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

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

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

The speech on the FREE open source Sesame text... to speech is astonishing. It just killed Google’s voice project for podcasts and the monetization they hoped for. Here is a Hugging Face Gradio link to test: But download it and clone your voice!show more

France President Emmanuel Macron says “Free speech is bullsh*t”... and slams tech companies for not letting them control the algorithms and not censoring what liberals consider “hate speech” “Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech — Free speech is pure bullsh*t — especially when it is guided from one hated speech to another hated speech” Liberals want to control the algorithms and censor anything they consider hate speechshow 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

[to the tune of happy birthday] text turns into... speech text turns into speech the model is launching text turns into speechshow more

“Free Speech, free speech, free speech is a British... Value & we have guarded it for Centuries” Yes Keir Starmer actually just said this.show more

Liberal Senator Anne Ruston says the hate speech bill... has nothing to do with freedom of speech, arguing it was actually designed to target radical Islamic extremism and neo-Nazi groups.show more

Bytedance just dropped realtime voice translation 3x faster than... before, with only a ~3s lag! Seed LiveInterp 2 is a full duplex speech-to-speech model with >70% correctness. When this makes it to video calls, it'll open up previously impossible connections.show more

Just a reminder, Hitler rounded up the jews and... put them in work camps. He didn’t debate them and let them run the media companies because of free speech. Concepts like free speech only work in homogeneous societies.show more

IT'S SPOOPY MONTH!👻 This new model is now available... in my Ko-Fi c: All details in comments! Can be used as a model itself or as a pet for text-to-speech redeems Special thanks to @Kitty_Mama_TV and Eruben | Pinned new account for helping me test it! #ENVtuber #VTuberAssets #VTubeStudioshow 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

🚨🇬🇧 WATCH: ENI ALUKO CLAIMS THE UK “HAS FREE... SPEECH” Eni Aluko tried to explain Britain’s so-called speech laws on live TV - and it sounded like pure nonsense. 🔴 “Offensive” opinions are fine 🔴 But “grossly offensive” ones are criminal 🔴 Translation: It depends whether a judge likes you or not We don’t have free speech - we have conditional permission from the state.show more

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has used his maiden speech... to call for a referendum on the ECHRshow 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

Today, President Trump traveled to Iowa to deliver a... speech on the economy and energy. Nothing better than a speech about “energy” from a guy who sleeps all day 🙄 #FallonTonightshow more