text-to-speech

Microsoft debuts AI voice models, real-time transcriber

Microsoft released three in-house artificial intelligence models for transcription and voice on Thursday. The company is building more of its own AI technology as it tries to win over developers making conversational voice agents.

Google launches Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models

Google Alphabet Inc. on Wednesday introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, two text-to-speech models it called its most expressive audio generation tools to date. Both models began rolling out immediately in the Gemini API and Google…