Northeastern student Anwita Chaudhry is building a text-to-speech app for nonverbal users that speaks with real emotion.

Typing has always been a bottleneck between what we think and how quickly we can communicate it to a computer. AI-powered dictation tools like Wispr Flow have made things considerably better. You can ...

Ollama now lets Mac users turn text into natural-sounding speech locally with Phonon, a family of small text-to-speech models ...

AssemblyAI published a Python tutorial for a real-time voice agent that combines streaming speech recognition, LLM Gateway ...

Block’s AI research lab has released Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on human conversation. Block announced it on October 23, 2026 as a research preview. Dessa is a speech-to-speech ...

It is the second 0.6B release in Edge0’s Audio8 TTS family. It builds on Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b and keeps the same ...

Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe handles 40 languages, translation and speaker labels in one model and comes with ...

AssemblyAI outlined Python TTS workflows for one-shot WAV output, WebSocket streaming, barge-in handling and keep-alive sessions.

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe on October 28, 2026, an open-weight speech model that combines multilingual ...

Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not ...

An open-source ESP32-P4 project converts spoken English into text locally, using compressed AI model weights and the chip’s ...