Mistral Releases Open-Weight Voice AI Built For Speed

Mistral releases Voxtral TTS model that’s fast, multilingual and small enough to be practical for voice agents.

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

Mistral AI launches Voxtral TTS, an open-weight enterprise voice model that runs on a smartphone and challenges ElevenLabs in ...
Slator

RESON8 Raises EUR 5M to Build Europe-Centric Speech AI Platform

Reson8 has raised EUR 5m in pre-seed funding for a customizable, adaptive speech-to-text platform focused on European ...
InfoQ

OpenAI Extends the Responses API to Serve as a Foundation for Autonomous Agents

OpenAI announced they are extending the Responses API to make it easier for developer to build agentic workflows, adding ...
Human Rights Watch

Free Speech

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally. In ...
WinBuzzer

Cohere’s Open-Source Transcribe Model Tops ASR Leaderboard

Cohere has released Transcribe, a 2-billion-parameter open-source speech recognition model that tops the Hugging Face Open ...