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News analysisRelease: August 25, 2025Published: October 24, 20263 min read

Microsoft text to speech AI audio open source

Microsoft’s VibeVoice release put long-form multi-speaker TTS into an open research framework, then exposed its misuse boundary

Microsoft’s VibeVoice project records an August 25, 2025 open-source TTS release for long-form multi-speaker speech, followed by code removal after misuse reports in September.

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News analysisRelease: June 4, 2025Published: October 24, 20263 min read

NVIDIA speech recognition AI audio voice AI

NVIDIA positioned Parakeet v2 as an English speech-recognition research model, not a universal transcription result

NVIDIA’s June 4, 2025 overview listed Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 as an ASR model with timestamps, punctuation and lyrics support; benchmark claims remain vendor-reported.

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News analysisRelease: June 3, 2025Published: October 24, 20263 min read

ElevenLabs Eleven v3 text to speech AI audio

ElevenLabs launched Eleven v3 as an alpha for expressive speech, with real-time use still out of scope

ElevenLabs announced Eleven v3 (alpha) on June 3, 2025, adding audio tags, multi-speaker dialogue and 70-plus language support while retaining stated latency limits.

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News analysisRelease: February 6, 2025Published: October 24, 20263 min read

speech recognition AI audio voice AI open source

Kyutai released Hibiki’s French-to-English voice-translation research artifacts with a narrow language boundary

Kyutai’s February 6, 2025 release described Hibiki as French-to-English speech translation with voice preservation; it did not establish broader coverage or deployment outcomes.

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