#Voice

AIOpenBMB highlights VoxWeft, an open-source simultaneous interpretation system for Apple Silicon built by developer @HenryZ30734018 on an MLX implementation of VoxCPM2. The system turns live speech into translated speech on-device, with first audio streaming in about 170 ms on an M5 MacBook. VoxCPM2 generates speech in 30 languages, supports direct language-pair interpretation, and clones a target voice from about 5 seconds of reference audio.

AIGoogle made the Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS models generally available, along with the Gemini API Voices endpoint. Flash TTS is positioned for studio-grade voice fidelity and long-form multi-turn stability, while Flash-Lite TTS targets high-throughput, real-time voice agents and replaces gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview. The update adds voice design, voice replication with consent verification, and access to 150+ prebuilt and custom voices.

AIA developer connected a Raspberry Pi Zero W2 with a webcam and ambient microphone to MiniCPM-o 4.5, an open-source model running locally on a PC. The setup streams audio and video in real time with full-duplex interaction and no cloud APIs.

AIXiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 combines code, design, and tool use to build frontend interfaces, presentations, Figma-linked visual assets, and videos. The post says MiMo-V2.5-TTS supports narration in video production, and that the model can compose music, including an orchestral piece for around ten instruments that can be converted to MIDI. On Design Arena, the Pro version reportedly performs comparably to Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.

AIGoogle AI Developers pointed readers to a Google blog post about Gemini 3.8 Live and its extended thinking capability. The post itself contains no further details, so specifics such as benchmarks, pricing, or availability cannot be confirmed from this source.

AIGoogle AI Developers showed a coding tutor built with Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking that views the user's screen and calls functions to reference the p5.js library. The tutor points out the exact bug on screen and talks the user through the logic.

AIXiaomi's MiMo team released MiMo Gallery, a showcase where every 3D model, game, slide deck, video, music piece, and image was generated by MiMo-V2.6. The post previews MiMo-V2.6 as an upcoming model and points readers to the gallery for a first look.

AIDeveloper @mrgoodmantweets built MiniCPM-o Booking Desk, an open-source appointment booking agent that uses MiniCPM-o 4.5 for real-time, full-duplex voice and audio-visual interaction. The agent listens, speaks, and reads live booking status from an operator screen, while deterministic state control keeps execution reliable. An appointment is only booked after user confirmation.

AIGoogle AI Developers demonstrates Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking as a workshop assistant that analyzes a user's workspace, reasons aloud, and guides a beginner through building a cyberdeck. The demo targets users with no prior experience building one.

AIGoogle's weekly recap covers Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, described as its most advanced live dialogue audio models yet. It also notes Dreambeans, a GoogleLabs experiment curating daily personalized stories, is now generally available, and that CC has expanded into a shared agent for household coordination. Google Pics, a Workspace tool for generating and co-creating images, is now GA, alongside AlphaGenome Atlas, DeepMind's interactive genomics discovery platform.

AIxAI's Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 is twice as accurate as its predecessor in customer-support calls, spoken credentials, and short voice commands. The post lists these three scenarios as the areas of improvement, with no further figures given.

AIAtlassian reports that Transcribe 2.0 in Loom captured user instructions more accurately than its predecessor. Users can dictate change requests in Loom and export them directly to Cursor for coding.

AIxAI has made Transcribe 2.0 available today in the Grok Voice API. Pricing is $0.10 per hour for batch transcription and $0.20 per hour for streaming. The linked blog post contains further details.

AIxAI has introduced Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, which it calls the world's most accurate speech transcription model. The post gives no benchmark scores, pricing, or availability details.

AIxAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, a speech-to-text model that is twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 at the same price, and ranks first for accuracy among 32 streaming models on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. Batch transcription costs $0.10 per hour of audio and streaming $0.20 per hour, with diarization, timestamps, and key terms included. Existing Speech-to-Text API integrations gain the improvement with no code changes, and developers must pin grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 to stay on the older model during the transition.

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.

AIOpenBMB says Dubedo is the kind of product it hoped VoxCPM2 would enable, citing speaker-aware cloning, multilingual generation, and an editing studio. The post praises @dubedostudio's work, while the background post describes Dubedo as dubbing into 30 languages with per-speaker voice cloning and a beta open for trial.

AILiveKit is hosting a voice AI event with Aqua Voice and Speechmatics during SF Tech Week on Wednesday, October 7, from 5:30 to 8:30 pm in San Francisco. The post invites attendees to meet the people building voice interfaces, and RSVPs are handled through a Partiful link.

AIGrok Voice is now live on fal, and the post says it answers in 0.70 seconds and can finish tool calls before a sentence ends. Its listed capabilities include transcription with word-level timestamps, text to speech in 30+ voices across 25+ languages, and voice cloning from two minutes of audio.

AILiveKit is offering startups $10K in Cloud credits, a year of its Scale plan, and $7K in partner inference credits, with $1K each for Google Gemma, Deepgram, Inworld, Rime, Fish Audio, AssemblyAI, and Gradium. The partner credits cover the voice stack in one workspace without requiring separate provider keys. Startups can apply through

AIGreg Brockman shared a demo of Codex voice running in CarPlay, letting users build software by speaking while driving. A quoted post from Jonathan Roomer says the setup runs through a third-party iOS app that connects ChatGPT Voice to Codex and his Mac.

AIGoogle is hosting Gemini Audio | At Night in San Francisco on Thursday, September 24, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM at The Pearl. Attendees can try Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, 3.8 Live, and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, meet the teams that built them, and test live demos. RSVP is available at goo.gle/4xpdcBn.

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 AI Studio released Gemini 3.8 Live, a native speech-to-speech model with an Extended Thinking variant, and made it available through the Live API. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, released last month, supports 85+ languages with a reported 4.0% streaming and 2.6% non-streaming Word Error Rate, and accepts a custom vocabulary of up to 1,000 terms. Live API audio pricing is listed at $0.005/min for input and $0.018/min for output.

Why it matters: The post lists concrete Live API capabilities, per-minute audio pricing, and transcription accuracy figures, helping developers weigh voice agent options against their own cascaded pipelines.

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.

AIGoogle has published a blog post on building real-time voice applications with Gemini audio. The post itself contains only a link, so specific features, models, or capabilities cannot be confirmed from this source.

AILiveKit Agents now supports Gemini 3.8 Live, letting developers choose gemini-3.8-live for low-latency audio or gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking for longer asynchronous reasoning. Developers can switch between the two modes without changing their stack. The post points readers to LiveKit's documentation for more details.

AIGoogle's Gemini Notebook now offers live spoken Q&A over class materials in about 100 languages, and lets students record lectures on the go with audio notes saved automatically to a chosen notebook. University students in 140+ countries can also still get a free Google AI Plan for higher limits and access to more Google products.

AILiveKit rebuilt its LiveKit Cloud platform around the voice agent as the core unit of work. The redesign lets developers talk to their agent while editing it, click a metric to see the sessions behind it, and navigate back without retracing steps.

AIGoogle introduced two live dialogue models, Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, available through AI Studio and the Gemini API. Gemini 3.8 Live is built for scale and cost efficiency, combining conversational intelligence with fluid dialogue and visual grounding. The Extended Thinking variant targets high-complexity tasks with increased intelligence and multi-step reasoning.

AIGoogle is hosting a first-of-its-kind Gemini Audio experience in San Francisco next week, with Logan Kilpatrick attending. The post also points to new Live audio models for building real-time voice applications.

AIGoogle has released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, described as new state-of-the-art live audio models available at frontier pricing and performance. The 3.8 Live model supports 97 languages with seamless switching between them, along with async tool calls.

AIGoogle is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking across several channels. Consumers get them in Search Live and Gemini Live, developers get public preview access through the Gemini API, and enterprises get private preview through Gemini Enterprise, with Customer Experience support coming soon.

Why it matters: The post lays out where each Gemini 3.8 Live variant reaches consumers, developers, and enterprises, which clarifies access paths for a voice model release.

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.

AIGoogle DeepMind demonstrated 3.8 Live Extended Thinking acting as a programming tutor in Gemini Live. Both 3.8 Live models feature upgraded reasoning, near real-time visual understanding, automatic detection across 97 languages, and background tool calling that doesn't interrupt the chat. The Extended Thinking variant adds higher performance and precision for harder tasks and narrates its progress, and it is available in Gemini Live in the Gemini app or through the Gemini API via Google AI Studio.

AIGoogle reports that its technologies and products now power everyday interactions in more than 300 languages used by over 7 billion people, about 86% of the global population. The post describes new speech models, including Gemini 3.5 Live Translate and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, plus the TranslateGemma open translation models trained across 55 languages.

AILM Studio's Bionic 1.1.3 release adds voice transcription on Apple Silicon Macs and PCs with NVIDIA GPUs. AMD support is in development, according to the post.

AILM Studio has introduced local realtime voice transcription, letting users speak to their agents without sending voice data to the cloud. The feature is available on Mac and Windows, and now Linux as well.