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 ...

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 releases a new open-source model for speech generation

Mistral's new speech model can run on a smartwatch or a smartphone.

Cohere launches an open-source voice model specifically for transcription

Relatively light at just 2 billion parameters, the model is meant for use with consumer-grade GPUs for those who want to self ...
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 ...
The Bookseller

Bologna Children's Book Fair 2026: Agents' Hotlists

The agents’ hot tips among the runners and riders at the 2026 Bologna Children’s Book Fair The Bookseller ’s Hotlists are ...
PC Magazine

With Lyria 3 Pro, Gemini Can Now Generate 3-Minute Songs From Prompts

When Lyria 3 launched last month, Gemini could generate 30-second audio clips from prompts. With the new advanced model, the chatbot can now create tracks up to 3 minutes long and follow instructions ...