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Kyutai’s January 13, 2026 Pocket TTS release described a 100M-parameter English text-to-speech model with voice cloning, MIT licensing and stated laptop CPU operation.
Read analysisLiquid AI released LFM2-Audio-1.5B on October 1, 2025, combining audio and text inputs and outputs in a 1.5B-parameter model.
Read analysisNVIDIA’s August 14, 2025 Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3 model record expanded a 600M-parameter recognizer from English to 25 European languages with automatic detection and timestamps.
Read analysisNVIDIA’s July 17, 2025 Canary-Qwen-2.5B announcement paired speech transcription with a Qwen language-model mode, with English and input-length limits stated on its model card.
Read analysisMistral released Voxtral on July 15, 2025, with 24B and 3B speech-understanding models under Apache 2.0 and a separate transcription API route.
Read analysisNVIDIA’s February 20, 2025 Riva 2.18 record added Canary NIM implementations for offline ASR and speech translation, while model choice and deployment conditions remained separate.
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