#Voice

AIXiaomi released the MiMo-V2.5-TTS Series, three speech synthesis models for stock voices, voice design, and voice cloning. The models accept natural-language style instructions and inline audio tags, and the source says the three models are free of charge for a limited time on the Xiaomi MiMo API platform. Xiaomi also open-sourced integration Skills for agent applications on GitHub.

Why it matters: The release shows how a TTS family adds style instructions, inline audio tags, and voice design or cloning to speech synthesis, which matters for agent and creative workflows.

AIAI voice technology is getting out of hand. Drama 3 is the most control a model has shown over the direction of language. It can change tone in the same sentence and has vocal control similar to human speech. I tried testing this feature and couldn’t believe how well it worked. Do yourself a favor and try @FishAudio out.

AIIt combines LFM2.5-Encoder-350M with vision and audio encoders, and leads our text benchmark comparison in toxicity detection and paraphrase identification. Use it for voice-command routing, on-device moderation, and intent classification. 3/

AILiquidAI has released d1-omni-600M on Hugging Face, a 587M-parameter model that answers named yes/no, choice and score questions over text, images or up to 30 seconds of speech in a single forward pass. It returns typed answers with zero output tokens by reading the model's distribution over options, and is built on LFM2.5-Encoder-350M with a 16,384-token context length. The model is not a chat model and does not generate text.

AIIndexTeam released Index-Echo-S2ST-9B-FP4, an NVFP4 (W4A4) quantization of the Index-Echo-S2ST-9B speech-to-speech translation model, with only its text LLM backbone quantized. Perplexity rose from 3.8218 to 3.9650 (+3.75%) on a fixed corpus, while zh→en and en→zh outputs were semantically equivalent, and full FP4 speedup requires an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU.

AIIndexTeam released Index-Echo-S2ST-2B-FP4, an NVFP4 (W4A4) quantized version of the Index-Echo-S2ST-2B speech-to-speech translation model, with only the text LLM backbone quantized and the audio components kept in BF16. On a fixed corpus, perplexity rose from 5.9332 to 6.4980 (+9.52%), while zh->en and en->zh generations matched the original. Full FP4 acceleration requires an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, and the model loads via compressed-tensors in vLLM or transformers.

AIIndexTeam published an NVFP4 (W4A4) quantized version of its Index-Echo-S2TT-9B speech-to-text translation model, quantizing only the text LLM backbone while keeping the audio tower and other components in BF16. On an NVIDIA A100, perplexity rose from 3.4155 to 3.5113 (+2.81%), with zh->en and en->zh outputs semantically equivalent under greedy decoding. Full FP4 speedup requires an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, while older GPUs get only memory reduction.

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AIMicrosoft AI announced three new models: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, MAI-Voice-2.1, and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. The source says the streaming transcription model is accurate and aims for natural speech with less waiting between conversational turns for building voice agents.

AIIndexTeam has released Index-Translate, a multilingual family covering text, speech, dubbing, and long-document translation across 150 languages. Its 9B model scores 0.8789 on FLORES, 0.8209 on instTrans, and 0.7387 on MEME, and the 2B and 9B models are released under Apache 2.0.

AIAudio8 ASR Infinite transcribes Chinese and English audio of unlimited length using a rolling KV Cache that avoids accumulated drift. At a 480 ms delay, it reports 1.75 CER on AISHELL-1, 2.89 on AISHELL-4, and 3.04/6.81 WER on LibriSpeech test-clean/test-other. The preview release is under Apache 2.0, with deployment through an adapted vLLM stack.

AIGoogle introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS for creative voice design and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS for high-volume, cost-efficient speech generation. Flash TTS supports voice creation from natural language prompts across more than 100 languages and dialects, and both models are rolling out today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, with enterprise access coming soon via Gemini Enterprise.

AI…production ready voices - voice replication - support for 100 languages - voice remixing (soon) - #1 spot on Hume AI's voice benchmarks and more!!

AIGoogle announced two new Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models, positioned as its most expressive yet. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS targets creative work, letting developers use natural language to define vocal personas, cues, pacing, and dialects, while Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS is built for high-volume pipelines such as bulk audiobook production and audio dubbing. Both are available now through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.

AI…Gemini_Notebook and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS in Google Vids — Coming soon: Both models in Gemini Enterprise

AIGoogle AI launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, which it describes as its most expressive audio models yet. The models support custom voices across 100+ languages, 2,000+ prebuilt voices, multi-speaker conversations, line-by-line delivery control, and cues such as <laughs> and |mhm|. Google positions Flash TTS for bespoke voices in gaming, audiobooks, and podcasts, and Flash-Lite TTS for near real-time voice agents, high-volume dubbing, and bulk audio.

AI…characteristics. 🔵 Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS: Built for efficiency and scale, choose from your created styles or our expansive production-ready library.

AI…creators, developers, and enterprises to create richer, more expressive audio experiences try them via the Gemini API and in AI Studio:

AIGoogle DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, text-to-speech models offering custom voice design, line-by-line performance control, and multilingual support across more than 100 languages. Flash TTS is rolling out to developers in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio and to everyone in Gemini Notebook, while Flash-Lite TTS is available to developers and in Google Vids. Voice replication requires consent verification, and generated audio carries SynthID watermarking.

Why it matters: The source details the voice design, performance direction, and consent safeguards, showing how the model covers creative and high-volume use cases with access across several Google products.

AIGoogle DeepMind's latest Gemini Audio models let developers design new vocal personas from natural language prompts, directing pacing, back channeling, and dialect shifts line by line. Developers can also recreate consistent adult voice profiles from a 30-second audio sample, with built-in consent verification, SynthID watermarking, and C2PA credentials.

AINVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Diarization is now available on ModelScope, labeling speakers and timestamps in streaming audio for up to eight speaker slots per conversation. The 99.2M-parameter model uses an end-to-end streaming architecture built on NVIDIA's Streaming Sortformer, running on Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell GPUs via NeMo Speech C++. It is designed to pair with existing ASR systems such as Nemotron ASR, Parakeet, Canary, or Whisper to produce speaker-attributed transcripts.

AIAlibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, upgrading its ASR, TTS and Realtime models and adding TTS-Next and ASR-Next. The post says TTS prices fell about 70%, Realtime about 85%, and ASR up to 95%. More APIs are coming soon.

AIDeveloper Alican Kiraz fine-tuned OpenBMB's open-source VoxCPM2 voice model on nearly 100 hours of natural Turkish speech, creating Kahya-TTS for Turkish text-to-speech. The project shows how open-source voice models can be adapted to new languages and specialized datasets. The model is available on Hugging Face.

AIinclusionAI has published Realtime-Venus on Hugging Face with two 9B checkpoints: Realtime-Venus-Omni for audio-visual interaction and Realtime-Venus-Audio for audio-only conversation. Both are built on MiniCPM-o 4.5 with a Qwen3-8B backbone and support full-duplex dialogue, proactive responses, and training-free long-video memory. The asynchronous Realtime-Venus-Harness runtime is hosted in a separate GitHub repository.

AIGoogle announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, voice agents with reasoning capabilities. The post says the models take turns more seamlessly, think through complexity, and feel more natural to converse with.

AI…intelligence with fluid dialogue and visual grounding. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking: built for high-complexity tasks, with increased intelligence and multi-step reasoning. these audio models are available to build with in AI Studio and via the Gemini API

AI…performance. 3.8 Live supports 97 languages (can seamlessly switch), async tool calls, and more!

AIGoogle AI announces Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking as its most advanced Gemini Audio models. Gemini 3.8 Live is built for scale, speed, and cost efficiency, handling mid-sentence interruptions, transitions across 97 languages, and visual context through Search Live. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking reasons and speaks in parallel, narrating its progress on multi-step tasks such as event planning.

AIGoogle DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two live dialogue models for voice agents. Extended Thinking scores 82.6 on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index, 68.6% on τ-Voice, and 97.7% on Big Bench Audio. Gemini 3.8 Live is rolling out now in the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and Search Live, with enterprise access in private preview.

Why it matters: The release covers a voice model's benchmark results and availability across developer, enterprise, and consumer products, useful for judging voice agent options.

AIGoogle introduces Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two live dialogue models for voice agents that reason and speak simultaneously. The Extended Thinking version scores 82.6 on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index and 97.7% on Big Bench Audio, while 3.8 Live targets scale and cost efficiency. Developers can access both through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio, and enterprise and consumer rollouts vary by product.

Why it matters: The source names the two models, their access paths, and specific benchmark results, showing how the voice agent capabilities differ between the two tiers.

AITencent Hunyuan has released AuK, an open-source foundation model for unified speech generation and editing that takes natural-language instructions and reference audio. It supports tasks including zero-shot TTS, timbre, style and emotion editing, denoising, and music separation. A companion AuK-Flash variant runs 4-step inference and is about 4.5 times faster under matched conditions, with code, weights, and a demo now available.

AI10x faster that GPT-Transcribe. Now available on Microsoft Foundry.

AIBAAI and Hao Tang's team at Peking University's School of Computer Science released GaussianMind, an audio-language model built on RoboBrain and OpenMOSS Audio. The model is available on Hugging Face and loads through custom Transformers code with trust_remote_code=True.

AIGoogle has made Lyria 3.5 generally available through the Gemini API, offering full-length song generation with improved musical coherence, natural vocals, and fine-grained control over duration and structure. The model model accepts text and image inputs and outputs high-fidelity 44.1 kHz stereo audio.

AIWatch how this latest model filters out spoken hesitation while grounding technical terms, file names, and code variables precisely against the active context while building in @Antigravity. By using visual biasing, the model brings deep, screen-aware context to complex developer workflows.

AIBuild apps that understand user speech / intent, even w/ multiple speakers! - Auto-detection of 85+ languages out of the box - Custom vocab adaptation for specialized jargon... SGTM:) API available now in @GoogleAIStudio and Gemini Enterprise, or try it in the Gemini app on macOS or Rambler on Android! More details: