Why Developers Are Dropping Cloud APIs for This Tiny 82M Speech Model

Kokoro 82M is an 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that beats many TTS APIs while running locally on CPUs, including ...
Hackaday

Speech Synthesis On A 10 Cent Microcontroller

Speech synthesis has been around since roughly the middle of the 20th century. Once upon a time, it took remarkably advanced hardware just to even choke out a few words. But as [atomic14] shows with ...
Geeky Gadgets

ElevenLabs Launches Eleven v3 (alpha) : New Expressive Text to Speech Model

ElevenLabs has launched Eleven v3 (alpha), a new Text to Speech model designed to deliver highly expressive and realistic speech generation. This version introduces advanced features like ...
Hackaday

Researchers Create A Brain Implant For Near-Real-Time Speech Synthesis

Brain-to-speech interfaces have been promising to help paralyzed individuals communicate for years. Unfortunately, many systems have had significant latency that has left them lacking somewhat in the ...
University of California

Brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis restores naturalistic speech

Marking a breakthrough in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco has unlocked a way to restore naturalistic speech for people with ...
Morningstar

Speech Processing Solutions Launches Philips SpeechLive Health, an AI Assistant Built for Modern Clinical Documentation

Philips SpeechLive Health AI Assistant uses healthcare-trained AI to convert clinical conversations into structured notes, helping clinicians reduce administrative burden Speech Processing Solutions, ...