The new model supports more than 30 languages, seven major Chinese dialects and over 20 regional accents A new artificial intelligence voice model from Alibaba Group Holding has beaten out Western ...

Called Voice Generation, the model has been in development since late 2022 and powers the Read Aloud feature in ChatGPT. Called Voice Generation, the model has been in development since late 2022 and ...

Generating voices that are not only humanlike and nuanced but diverse continues to be a struggle in conversational AI. At the end of the day, people want to hear voices that sound like them or are at ...

In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to ...

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform.

AI companies have been working on voice models for a while now, but it seems things really ramped up after OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Voice Mode. Now, Amazon has just introduced its new "foundation" AI ...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy teased ahead to today’s announcement when he unveiled Amazon’s Nova initiative in December at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) What happens when the AI ...

Xiaomi Corp. on Monday released an open-source voice model to complement its automotive and home appliance technologies, further heating up the race to build AI tools for more than just text. The new ...

Xiaomi has announced that its AI Lab’s new-generation Kaldi team has open-sourced a new text-to-speech (TTS) model called OmniVoice. According to the company, the model is designed to deliver ...

In context: Some of the implications of today's AI models are startling enough without adding a hyperrealistic human voice to them. We have seen several impressive examples over the last 10 years, but ...

On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a new generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech. Amazon claims that Sonic’s performance is competitive ...