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Imported posts live in the [archive](/archive). - [Search](/blog/search) - [AI (54)](/blog/category/ai) - [API Design (13)](/blog/category/api-design) - [APIs (23)](/blog/category/apis) - [Career (11)](/blog/category/career) - [Community (1)](/blog/category/community) - [Developer Experience (54)](/blog/category/developer-experience) - [Developer Relations (7)](/blog/category/developer-relations) - [Engineering (124)](/blog/category/engineering) - [Fun (1)](/blog/category/fun) - [Git (13)](/blog/category/git) - [Industry (32)](/blog/category/industry) - [JavaScript (7)](/blog/category/javascript) - [Latency (2)](/blog/category/latency) - [Models (2)](/blog/category/models) - [News (21)](/blog/category/news) - [Open Source (20)](/blog/category/open-source) - [Opinion (35)](/blog/category/opinion) - [Pricing (1)](/blog/category/pricing) - [Security (11)](/blog/category/security) - [Speech-to-Text (9)](/blog/category/speech-to-text) - [Streaming (4)](/blog/category/streaming) - [Text-to-Speech (29)](/blog/category/text-to-speech) - [TIL (113)](/blog/category/til) - [TypeScript (1)](/blog/category/typescript) - [Voice Agents (7)](/blog/category/voice-agents) - [Voice AI (74)](/blog/category/voice-ai) 274 posts **2026** - [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. - [Inference costs are dropping and that changes everything](/inference-costs-dropping-changes-everything) (Jun 2026 · Original · AI): OpenAI's custom chip, SpaceX compute deals, and falling token prices are pushing inference costs down faster than most developers have noticed. - [Lessons from my first two weeks in a new corner of AI](/lessons-from-my-first-two-weeks-in-voice-ai) (Jun 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): Two weeks in voice AI on the text-to-speech side: a new community, a new set of constraints, and a definition of quality nobody quite agrees on. - [Six stories shaping voice AI in mid-June 2026](/six-stories-shaping-voice-ai-mid-june-2026) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Microsoft MAI-Voice-2, Google live translation, DeepL bought Mixhalo, and open-weight TTS models kept shrinking. Six stories from a busy month in voice AI. - [When speech-to-text hears something else entirely](/when-speech-to-text-hears-something-else) (Jun 2026 · Original · Developer Experience): The funniest speech-to-text transcriptions from real API traffic: a meowing cat asking for help, a quiche that became keys, and why models guess. - [Voice data residency decides where your agent runs](/voice-data-residency-decides-where-your-agent-runs) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Voice data residency decides where speech APIs process audio. Deepgram Australia went live June 17, 2026, shaping how teams pick STT and TTS providers. - [Streaming TTS: Rethinking the Voice Audio Pipeline](/streaming-tts-rethinking-audio-pipeline) (Jun 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Streaming TTS changes what voice applications expect from audio APIs. Time-to-first-byte drops, complexity moves into buffer management and chunk boundaries, and - [Export Controls Took Down Claude Fable 5](/export-controls-took-down-claude-fable-5) (Jun 2026 · Original · AI): An export control directive shut down Claude Fable 5 globally. The first government shutdown of a deployed AI model and what developers should know. - [A Frontier Model Goes Dark, Voice AI Keeps Moving](/a-frontier-model-goes-dark-voice-ai-keeps-moving) (Jun 2026 · Original · AI): A frontier model goes dark: Fable 5 pulled 72 hours after launch by export directive, while Microsoft and Deepgram carried on shipping voice infrastructure. - [Anthropic's IPO, NVIDIA open-weights, and AI's $36B bet](/anthropic-ipo-nvidia-open-weights-ai-36b-bet) (Jun 2026 · Original · AI): Fable 5 ate the news cycle, but that same week saw Anthropic's IPO, NVIDIA's open model, and a chip deal reshaping AI finance. Page 13 of 28. 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