Phonon TTS launches high-quality on-device speech model
Phonon TTS is a new on-device speech synthesis model that tops benchmarks for quality and efficiency.
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Fish Audio Releases Drama 3, a 35B Open-Weight MoE Text-to-Speech Model
Fish Audio released Drama 3, a 35B open-weight mixture-of-experts text-to-speech model.
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Generation Provenance Before Behavior Attribution: Auditing Synthetic Speech Research Objects
A provenance contract audits synthetic Japanese care-handoff speech before attributing behavior to training data.
Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning
Hugging Face announces an Open TTS Leaderboard for multilingual speech and voice-cloning evaluation.
DEFINE: Exemplar-Guided Accent Control for Zero-Shot TTS
DEFINE decouples speaker identity from accent in zero-shot TTS using separate audio exemplars, with a single inference-time guidance weight controlling accent strength.
EmoRES-TTS: Residual-Enhanced Vector Steering for Emotional Speech Generation
EmoRES steers frozen TTS models and beats CoCoEmo on IEMOCAP emotion metrics.
ElevenLabs' new v4 speech model makes AI voices more expressive and consistent
ElevenLabs released Eleven v4 speech model with better audio-tag adherence, 90+ languages, and a 150ms Turbo variant for real-time voice agents.
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EmoRES-TTS: Residual-Enhanced Vector Steering for Emotional Speech Generation
EmoRES steers frozen text-to-speech models by splitting emotion vectors into shared and residual components, improving control without retraining.
Tacit-TTS: From Autoregressive Decoding to Masked Prediction for Efficient Transcript-Free Voice Cloning
Tacit-TTS distills IndexTTS2 into transcript-free masked voice cloning that is over 10x faster.
NVAlign: Direct-Gradient Optimization for Non-Verbal Control in Continuous Autoregressive Flow Matching Text-to-Speech
NVAlign uses reward gradients to improve non-verbal tag control in flow-matching text-to-speech.
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS With Prompt-Based Voice Design
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with prompt-based voice design, 2,000+ voices, and consent-gated voice replication via API.
Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS models; Simon Willison published a bring-your-own-key playground.
Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent
Alibaba's Qwen team released five Qwen-Audio-3.1 speech models and cut audio prices by up to 95 percent.
Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters
A hands-on comparison of seven voice cloning APIs covering consent checks, speaker similarity, languages, and pricing per million characters.
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NemotronLabs VoiceChat: An Open Full-duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with Tool Calling Capabilities
NemotronLabs VoiceChat is an open full-duplex speech-to-speech model that calls tools during real-time conversation.
MTVA-Bench: Evaluating the Language Model Inside Cascaded Voice Agents
MTVA-Bench evaluates language models inside cascaded voice agents across 490 scenarios and 7 languages, exposing 24.4-point score gaps among seven tested models.
Multi-Dimensional Prosody Judgment For Live Streaming Speech Synthesis
Researchers introduce Live-ProsodyJudge and D-LPJ, Gemini-distilled Qwen3-Omni judges that decouple multi-dimensional prosody scores for live streaming TTS evaluation.
LACE: Layer-Wise Compression for Dynamic Frame Rate Codecs
LACE introduces layer-wise compression for dynamic frame rate audio codecs, cutting sequence lengths and speeding TTS inference while preserving quality.
Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost
Nari Labs claims top Coval voice AI benchmark rankings with low-latency, low-cost Qwen3-ASR and Qwen3-TTS inference endpoints.
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StepAudio 3 Gen Technical Report
StepAudio 3 Gen unifies TTS, voice design, music, and sound effects via discrete autoregressive modeling over RVQ tokens.
Building and Evaluating Fixed-Voice Thai TTS from Synthetic Speech
Researchers distill a compact 82M-parameter Thai TTS from synthetic OmniVoice data, enabling on-device fixed-voice synthesis without reference audio.
Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS
NVIDIA's Magpie TTS open-weight multilingual speech model enables low-latency voice agents with full deployment control.