# text to speech insights

Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged text to speech.

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

## 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.
- [Microsoft’s VibeVoice release put long-form multi-speaker TTS into an open research framework, then exposed its misuse boundary](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-microsoft-vibevoice-open-source-tts-august-2025/)
  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.
- [ElevenLabs launched Eleven v3 as an alpha for expressive speech, with real-time use still out of scope](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-elevenlabs-eleven-v3-alpha-june-2025/)
  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.
- [Kyutai presented Unmute as a modular speech wrapper for text models, while deferring its open-source release](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-kyutai-unmute-modular-voice-ai-may-2025/)
  Kyutai announced Unmute on May 28, 2025 as modular real-time STT and TTS around a text language model; it said open sourcing would follow in coming weeks.


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