Learn how AssemblyAI runs cost-optimized speech-to-text inference at scale on AWS, using Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Spot GPU instances, and an Amazon SQS-based retry architecture to achieve 70% cost savings while maintaining SLA commitments across European Regions.
Meta's AI agent Muse can now call businesses on behalf of paying US subscribers, handling everything from cable providers to restaurants. The agent already has over 10 million users, according to Meta's AI chief Alexandr Wang.
ElevenAI is a new meeting notetaker and dictation app aimed at teams and enterprises.
Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses — but it's not free.
ElevenLabs has released Scribe v3 and Scribe v3 Live, two new speech recognition models designed to transcribe accurately through background noise and crosstalk. Benchmarks from Artificial Analysis confirm that Scribe v3 narrowly beats competitors like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft on accuracy. That precision comes at a cost, though.
Hi! I'm Jen Tuohy, The Verge's senior smart home reviewer. I've tested every smart display Amazon and Google have ever made, and for the past week I've been testing Apple's first: The $299 HomeView.
AWS Marketplace now supports usage-based metering for Amazon SageMaker bidirectional streaming inference, so model providers can charge for what customers actually consume during a live stream. Deepgram is the launch partner, bringing usage-based speech-to-text and text-to-speech billing to AWS Marketplace.
DeepL Voice's real-time translations are about to sound a lot more natural. The company's new Aure model carries over tone, emotion, emphasis, and speaking pace from the original speaker's voice into the target language.
Some of the most impressive tech that Adobe showcases at its annual Max conference each year is the experimental features it's developing, and the latest of those tools are being announced today: they can transform images into explorable 3D scenes, design AI characters by talking to them, and turn photo editing into a copy/paste process.
On the first day of AIE Code Summit, OpenAI showed how developers can steer Codex by voice, hand off work to the cloud, and make use of dots.
Spotify Premium users can now customize their AI DJ with new voices with different personalities, or turn off the commentary between songs.
Otter AI just added support for 27 languages and revealed an upcoming feature that can follow along if speakers switch between languages.
Despite its small size, Underdog's new model can generate both speech and music.
Back to Articles A few months ago, we added private data to the Open ASR Leaderboard : 11 splits from Appen and DataOceanAI covering scripted and conversational speech from five accents ( blog ). The community response was great, with many highlighting the importance of held-out sets for trustworthy evaluations .
Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
Meta now lets you have voice conversations with your Muse AI agent in real time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today. The feature has been rolled out to me, and I gave it a spin on the iOS app while writing this article.
After partnering with Moises earlier this year, SoundCloud is now adding integration with another AI music platform, ElevenLabs. Now, rather than having to export and download your outputs from ElevenLabs and then upload them to SoundCloud, you can publish them directly.
Two weeks ago, we opened up Phonon, our small text-to-speech model that runs on your own device. It needs no server and no network, and what you type stays with you.
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. "How does that make you feel?" I get asked this a lot in therapy.
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
Learn how Cartesia, an AWS Partner, uses purpose-built State Space Models and AWS infrastructure to deliver sub-100ms text-to-speech and speech-to-text at global scale, and how to deploy its Sonic model on Amazon SageMaker AI or self-managed Amazon EC2 GPU instances.
Starting today, Siri can tune into the Apple Watch's mic with Audio Intelligence features that are available in the new watchOS 27.3 developer beta rolling out now.
MonsterHouse is an interactive projection created for Halloween. He listens to trick-or-treaters, answers in the voice of a grumpy old pirate ship and softens when visitors remember their manners. He is built on the NVIDIA Nemotron Voice Agent with NVIDIA Nemotron ASR, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, Magpie TTS Zeroshot and Audio2Face-3D, and he runs on a single workstation.
Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.
Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.
Today we're announcing two packages: AnySpeechRecognizer implements Apple's new speech-to-text API with a choice of recognition engine, including NVIDIA's Parakeet and Alibaba's Qwen3-ASR running locally on Core ML, and adds speaker diarization to track who speaks when.
Just over a week ago, we released Granite Switch 4.1 , showing that our modular Switch architecture lets you configure a language model with specialized, cache-efficient adapters — adding new expertise on a single endpoint. Granite Switch 4.1.1 is a patch release.
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.
Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech recognition model that handles transcription, speaker recognition, and translation and takes its instructions as text prompts. It leads several benchmarks and uses only a sixth of the active parameters of its strongest open rival.
One open model for multilingual transcription, speaker attribution, translation, and audio Q&A, with top leaderboard results, plus the open Granary v2 data pipeline and fine-tuning recipes to adapt it.
NVIDIA RTX Spark powers thin and light laptops built for everything that developers, creators and gamers do. RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI.
Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still leaving real-time use to rivals like ElevenLabs.
GPT-6 Astra tops Retell’s voice agent benchmark, while Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.
Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to recognize emotions, sarcasm, and pauses in real time. The model runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max but isn't publicly available yet.
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam.
Anima expands what care teams can do with OpenAI models, giving them more capacity to respond to patients.
Teams deploying custom text-to-speech models on Amazon SageMaker AI often guess at autoscaling thresholds, and a wrong guess either wastes GPU spend or breaches a latency SLO. This post deploys Kokoro-82M as a custom container and derives a measured autoscaling policy from two live-endpoint measurements, Q_max and T_total, instead of guesswork.
Voice agents often wait for an agent's full response before starting speech synthesis, adding latency users feel directly. This post shows how to stream each sentence to a Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI as the agent produces it, and how to get that audio back to a browser over Server-Sent Events or a unified binary transport.