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213 posts
2026
EU AI Act Voice Watermarking: What TTS Builders Must KnowOriginalEU AI Act voice watermarking rules took effect August 2, 2026. What TTS providers and voice developers must do to stay compliant.Voice AI
WebSocket vs REST TTS APIs for Voice AgentsOriginalChoosing between WebSocket and REST for your streaming TTS API changes your voice agent's latency floor. Here is how to pick the right protocol.TTS
Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Split Voice Agents in TwoOriginalSmallest.ai closed a $13M Series A for Voice 4.0 and Hydra. Their bet is that fast real-time agents need small speech models, not big LLMs.Voice AI
GPT-Transcribe Makes Context the New ASR FeatureOriginalOpenAI's GPT-Transcribe launched July 29, 2026 with prompt, keyword, and language hints. Free-form context lifted accuracy from 38.5% to 44.6%.Speech-to-Text
Grok Voice 2.0 Ships With a Quiet 60% Price RiseOriginalGrok Voice Think Fast 2.0 launched July 29, 2026 at $0.08/min, up from $0.05. On August 5 the grok-voice-latest alias migrates you automatically.Voice AI
Fish Audio's $52M Seed: Open Weights Got Them HereOriginalFish Audio raised a $52M seed on July 28, 2026 with $21M ARR and 8M users. Its new S2.1 Pro model is closed, API-only. What that shift means for TTS.TTS
TIL: git history fixup replaces the autosquash danceOriginalGit 2.55's experimental git history fixup folds staged changes into an earlier commit in one command. I built it from source and ran it.TIL
OpenAI Presence: Voice Agents You Can't Self-ServeOriginalOpenAI Presence deploys enterprise voice and chat agents, but only via OpenAI's own engineers. No API, no pricing, no self-serve. What that means.Voice AI
AgentForger: One Link Forges an AI Insider in Your OrgOriginalZenity disclosed AgentForger, a ChatGPT Workspace Agents flaw where one phishing link forged a persistent AI insider. OpenAI fixed it in four days.AI
Kimi K3 Weights Drop as Washington Argues DistillationOriginalMoonshot ships Kimi K3's 2.8 trillion parameter weights days after the US floated a ban and accused it of distilling Anthropic's Fable.AI