# speech AI insights

Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged speech AI.

Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/speech-ai/

## Topics
- [Agent systems](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/agents/): Agent runtimes, handoffs, tools, and the boundaries that make them reviewable.
- [Governance](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/governance/): Policy, identity, authorization, approvals, and evidence for consequential work.
- [Infrastructure](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/infrastructure/): Model serving, sandboxes, tool services, and deployment boundaries.
- [Models](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/models/): Inference choices, local serving, compatibility, and operational tradeoffs.

## Stories
- [Kyutai released Pocket TTS as a 100M CPU-oriented voice-cloning model](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-kyutai-pocket-tts-january-2026/)
  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.
- [Liquid AI released LFM2-Audio as one compact audio-and-text foundation model](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-liquid-lfm2-audio-october-2025/)
  Liquid AI released LFM2-Audio-1.5B on October 1, 2025, combining audio and text inputs and outputs in a 1.5B-parameter model.
- [NVIDIA released Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3 for 25-language speech-to-text](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-nvidia-parakeet-tdt-v3-august-2025/)
  NVIDIA’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.
- [NVIDIA announced Canary-Qwen-2.5B as an open ASR and language-model combination](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-nvidia-canary-qwen-july-2025/)
  NVIDIA’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.
- [Mistral released Voxtral speech-understanding models in open-source and production sizes](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-mistral-voxtral-speech-july-2025/)
  Mistral released Voxtral on July 15, 2025, with 24B and 3B speech-understanding models under Apache 2.0 and a separate transcription API route.
- [NVIDIA Riva 2.18 added Canary NIM options for offline multilingual speech work](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-nvidia-riva-canary-nim-february-2025/)
  NVIDIA’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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