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Stories tagged #voice-cloning
Edge0 releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B voice-cloning TTS model
The fetched page only names the 0.6B model; license, weights, and benchmarks are not in the text.
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Essay argues cheap AI agents will make cyberattacks routine
It cites an authorized NSA Mythos test, a claimed Cairn campaign, and slower patching times.
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AssemblyAI ships TTS-1 API at $15 per 1M characters
The hosted model runs only in US and EU clouds, with six languages, instant cloning and no open weights.
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Speech-token inversion clones a voice from a short leaked representation
A three-second Moshi leak produced 0.78 average speaker similarity and a 3.80% target-text word error rate.
Phone scams shift toward texts, voice clones, and QR codes
Consumers reported $470 million lost to text scams in 2024, and CrowdStrike says vishing doubled in early 2026.
Tencent releases Hy-SimulMT for Chinese-English simultaneous translation
The FP8 30B model streams speech both ways with voice cloning; Tencent reports about 3 seconds of StreamLAAL.
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Florida police say scammers cloned a sheriff’s voice
Osceola County officials told local news a resident received a voicemail using Sheriff Steve Moser’s cloned voice and picture.
Scammers clone candidates’ voices to steal cash and voter data ahead of 2026 midterms, FBI warns
FBI warns scammers are cloning 2026 midterm candidates with AI to steal donations and voter data.
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Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls
Google is rolling out Gemini-backed Android defenses against scam texts, spoofed bank calls, and silent call forwarding.
How to Run a Deepfake Readiness Drill Before a Cloned Voice Calls Your Team
Teams are urged to drill out-of-band checks against cloned-voice payment, help-desk, and admin-access fraud.
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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.
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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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.
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it
A TechCrunch journalist tests a Synthesia interactive avatar trained only on one of her articles.
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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.
Accent Analogy Guidance: More Speaker Similarity at Equal Accent in Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning
Accent Analogy Guidance raises cross-lingual TTS speaker similarity at equal accent across several open models.
Google's new Flash TTS models let you design AI voices from scratch using text descriptions
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS for designed, cloned, and multilingual synthetic voices.
Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS models; Simon Willison published a bring-your-own-key playground.
Lookout targets smishing, voice cloning, and vishing with real-time mobile protection
Lookout launched mobile protection that detects smishing, vishing, and AI voice clones in real time.
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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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Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: A Real-Time Interpretation Model That Cuts Average Lag to 2.3 Seconds Across 60 Languages
Alibaba's Qwen team launched Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, a real-time speech translation model cutting average lag from 2.8 to 2.3 seconds across 60 languages.
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Safe word: What is it and why do you need one?
ESET recommends pre-agreed family safe words to counter AI voice-clone scams such as virtual kidnapping, as one-in-four Americans report receiving deepfake calls.