Miso Labs launches MisoTTS, an open-source 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model now live on Hugging Face, featuring voice cloning, highly emotive conversational speech, and built-in audio watermarking for safety.
Google DeepMind launches Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal AI model that runs locally on consumer laptops with just 16GB of VRAM, featuring a groundbreaking encoder-free architecture that processes vision and audio directly through its LLM backbone for lower latency and memory use, available now on Hugging Face and Kaggle under …
Spotify launches 'Verified by Spotify' green checkmark badges for authenticated podcasts while cracking down on AI voice cloning and impersonation, with eligibility based on listener activity, policy compliance, and audience authenticity.
Spotify launches bold new AI music and podcast tools, including a Universal Music Group partnership for artist-consented AI remixes, even as musicians and podcasters fight back with protest albums and class-action lawsuits over the platform's growing AI ambitions.
Meta AI unveils WavFlow, a groundbreaking multimodal framework that generates synchronized, high-fidelity audio directly from video and text inputs, matching top latent-based models on major benchmarks while making its codebase publicly available on GitHub.
Google launches AI-powered smart glasses this fall alongside Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker, offering hands-free navigation, real-time translation, calls, and food ordering through Gemini-powered voice commands on the Android XR platform.
Amazon's Alexa+ is now generating fully voiced, custom podcast episodes on any topic in minutes, pulling from over 200 news sources to deliver personalized audio content to U.S. subscribers with zero prep required.
Nine class-action lawsuits are filed in Chicago's federal court by journalists, podcasters, and voice actors accusing Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Meta of illegally using their voices without consent to train AI models, marking a bold new frontier for Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.
A new open-source AI voice translator called PuriPuly is revolutionizing real-time two-way communication in VRChat, supporting slang, context memory, and VR subtitles at near-zero cost with free credits for new users.
Thinking Machines Lab unveils 'interaction models,' a groundbreaking new class of AI that natively handles real-time audio, video, and text simultaneously using a 200ms micro-turn design, outperforming competitors with entirely new capabilities like proactive visual reaction and time-triggered speech that no existing commercial model can currently perform.