Free Open-Source App Turns Any Audio File Into Text Offline

Discover how to convert audio and video files into accurate text without a subscription using the free, offline Vibe ...
eWeek

5 Best Text-To-Speech AI Voice Generators (2026)

Discover the best text-to-speech AI voice generators of 2025, offering natural voices and powerful features for personal and ...
IEEE

Real Time Speech to Speech Conversational AI System

Abstract: The proposed system consists of an end-to-end conversational system based on the combination of Deepgram Streaming Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, the response generation ...
marktechpost

Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.5 Omni: A Native Multimodal Model for Text, Audio, Video, and Realtime Interaction

The landscape of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has shifted from experimental ‘wrappers’—where separate vision or audio encoders are stitched onto a text-based backbone—to native, end-to-end ...
VentureBeat

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

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.
TechCrunch

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...
The Conversation

In a world of AI text, speech still reigns supreme

I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.
TechCrunch

Roblox launches real-time AI chat rephrasing to filter out banned language

Roblox is introducing a real-time, AI-powered chat rephrasing feature that automatically replaces banned words with more respectful language, the company announced on Thursday. The new feature goes ...
SiliconANGLE

IBM taps Deepgram to add real-time speech to watsonx Orchestrate

IBM Corp. and Deepgram Inc. said they will collaborate to integrate Deepgram’s voice capabilities into IBM’s watsonx Orchestrate platform, making Deepgram IBM’s first voice technology partner. Under ...
MarketWatch

For The Record Introduces Editable Speech-to-Text in FTR RealTime

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. PHOENIX, Feb. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Courts increasingly rely on speech-to-text recordings to enhance access, ...
TMCnet

For The Record Introduces Editable Speech-to-Text in FTR RealTime

PHOENIX, Feb. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Courts increasingly rely on speech-to-text recordings to enhance access, efficiency, and transparency. Yet as spoken words are converted into written text, small ...