AI Audio News
AI Audio NewsBland Speech v3 Brings Voice Agents Closer to Prime Time
Bland Speech v3 shows how AI voice is moving from demo novelty
6 Aug 2026
OpenAI Splits Speech-to-Text for Live and Batch AI Workflows
OpenAI is separating realtime and batch speech to text workflows, giving teams
28 Jul 2026
AI Audio NewsOpenAI’s GPT-Live Turns ChatGPT Voice Into a Real-Time Creative Partner
OpenAI GPT Live brings full duplex voice to ChatGPT, making conversations faster,
8 Jul 2026
Archive
- Kokoro-82M Makes Local AI Voice Practical3 Jul 2026
- Voice left the booth for a billable API31 May 2026
- OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime-2 Push Makes Voice Agents More Operational8 May 2026
- Cohere has launched Transcribe9 Apr 2026
- Microsoft’s New Audio Models Make Voice Automation More Real5 Apr 2026
- Fish Audio’s S2 Pro Makes Open TTS Feel Closer to Infrastructure30 Mar 2026
- Mistral’s Voxtral TTS Makes Voice AI More Usable Than Hypey29 Mar 2026
- Mistral’s Voxtral TTS Is Fast, Open, and Actually Useful for Voice Workflows27 Mar 2026
- Google’s Gemini Live Push Makes Voice AI More Useful. The API Reality Is the Real Story.26 Mar 2026
- SoundHound’s Edge-First Agent Push Is Real. The API Story Is the Part to Watch.19 Mar 2026
- Hume AI Open-Sources TADA: TTS That Stops “Going Off Script”12 Mar 2026
- OpenAI’s “BiDi” leak signals full-duplex voice8 Mar 2026
- smallest.ai Beta-Launches Hydra: Speech-to-Speech Voice Agents Get Serious4 Mar 2026
- Google Gemini Adds AI Music Generation With DeepMind’s Lyria 319 Feb 2026
- Mistral’s Voxtral Transcribe 2 Turns Speech Into a Real Automation Layer9 Feb 2026
- PersonaPlex-7B Brings Full-Duplex Voice Agents to Open Source (and That’s a Big Deal)31 Jan 2026
- ElevenLabs Eleven Music Makes Music Workflow-Ready26 Jan 2026
- Qwen3-TTS Open Source: Streaming Voice Cloning in 3 Seconds25 Jan 2026
- Step-Audio R1.1 Makes Realtime Voice Agents Simpler18 Jan 2026
- LiquidAI LFM2.5 Brings Local Real Time Voice Automation13 Jan 2026
- OpenAI Realtime Voice API Makes Agents Deployable7 Jan 2026
- LinaCodec: Open-Source Tokenizer That Speeds Voice AI3 Jan 2026
- Grok Voice Agent API: Deployable Real-Time Voice Automation1 Jan 2026
- Grok Voice Agent API: Real-Time Voice Automation, Simplified26 Dec 2025
- Chrome Android Turns Webpages Into AI Mini Podcasts17 Dec 2025
- Meta SAM Audio Makes Editing Promptable16 Dec 2025