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Luke Oliff · Blog

# Writing.

Original posts, published first on this site. Imported posts live in the [archive](/archive).

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**2026**

- [Someone Asked ChatGPT to Scream. It Did.](/someone-asked-chatgpt-to-scream) (Jul 2026 · Original · AI): A viral TikTok showed ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode screaming on command. Two screeches, one awkward silence, and a lot of questions about what we just watched.
- [What Voice Agent Pricing Reveals About the Platform](/what-voice-agent-pricing-reveals) (Jul 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Voice agent platform pricing tells you more than cost. The pricing model reveals which layer of the stack each platform owns and what trade-offs you inherit.
- [Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS Flash Comes for Real-Time Voice](/qwen-audio-3-0-tts-flash-alibaba) (Jul 2026 · Original · AI): Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS Flash targets the real-time TTS market on price and latency. What it means for voice developers and the API field.
- [TIL: Clone a voice in one API call with Speechify](/til-clone-voice-speechify-api) (Jun 2026 · Original · TIL): The Speechify API creates a cloned voice from a 10-second audio sample with a single POST, returning a voice ID that works on any speech endpoint you already use.
- [Frontier models now launch under government review](/frontier-models-now-under-government-review) (Jun 2026 · Original · AI): OpenAI released GPT-5.6 to 20 government-approved partners, Anthropic restored Mythos 5 to critical infrastructure, and a new AI review regime went live.
- [Notes from my first weeks at Speechify](/notes-from-my-first-week-at-speechify) (Jun 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): First weeks as Speechify's Head of DevRel: a TTS cookbook, two developer guides, and watching AI shift to government-gated releases.
- [Voice cloning goes open source, voice agents go enterprise](/voice-cloning-open-source-enterprise-voice-agents) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): NetEase open-sourced voice cloning from 3 seconds of audio. ElevenLabs partnered with IBM and added SynthID. Coval raised $28M. UK laws are unfit.
- [Voice AI's Real Competition Shifted From Models to Platforms](/voice-ai-competition-shifted-from-models-to-platforms) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): TTS model quality converged by June 2026. The real competitive moat shifted to developer experience, platform integration, and compliance tooling.
- [TTS Latency: How Time to First Audio Actually Works](/tts-latency-time-to-first-audio) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): A deep dive into Time to First Audio, the metric that defines voice agent responsiveness, and what happens in the latency pipeline from text to speech.
- [TIL: Read speech marks from the Speechify API response](/til-speech-marks-speechify-api) (Jun 2026 · Original · TIL): Every Speechify TTS response includes word-level timing data alongside the audio. Here is how to read speech marks and what you can do with them.

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