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2026
Brussels Just Handed Every Voice Assistant the Thing Google Would Never SellOn July 16, 2026, the European Commission adopted binding Digital Markets Act decisions ordering Google to open Android to rival AI assistants, granting certified third-party assistants voice…Voice AI
AMD Just Put Text-to-Speech in the Local AI Stack by DefaultAMD released Lemonade 11.0 on July 15, 2026, and the headline feature is text-to-speech: an OpenMOSS backend with voice-cloning and voice-design models, plus a dedicated TTS panel in the UI.…Voice AI
Building an AI Voice Cloning Web App with Next.js and SpeechifyClone a voice from a browser upload, synthesize speech with it, and keep your API key server-side. A working Next.js voice cloning app built on the Speechify API, no GPU required.Voice AI
Listeners Just Voted and the AI Voices Won. Nobody Told Them They Were Voting.Two studies published in mid-July 2026 found that ordinary listeners can’t reliably tell AI voices from human ones, and in some settings actively prefer the synthetic option. Edison Research, in a…Voice AI
Streaming TTS directly to the browser with Web Audio APIStream Speechify TTS as raw PCM, keep the API key server-side, and schedule each chunk into the browser's Web Audio API for low-latency playback.Voice AI
Add a better voice to Deepgram's Voice Agent with SpeechifyPoint Deepgram Voice Agent at the open-source tts-shims OpenAI-compatible proxy to speak with a Speechify voice. The shim answers Deepgram's open_ai TTS request and keeps your Speechify key server-side.Voice AI
Controlling Emotion and Timing in TTS with SSMLUse SSML emotion tags, pauses, prosody, emphasis, and pronunciation aliases to shape Speechify TTS output from one API request.Voice AI
Voice AI Is Worth Billions and Speech Is Nearly Free. Both Are True.In the first two weeks of July 2026, ElevenLabs opened talks for a tender offer at a roughly $22 billion valuation, Paris-based Gradium closed a $100 million seed round backed by Nvidia, and…Voice AI
Gene Wilder's Voice Is Back and the Interesting Part Is the PaperworkNetflix is using an AI recreation of Gene Wilder’s voice in “Wonka’s The Golden Ticket,” a nine-episode reality competition [premiering September 23,…Voice AI
Cloned voices can now run on Simba 3.2 with Speechify approvalPersonal cloned voices can now be synthesized on the curated Simba 3.2 model. Given the model's quality bar, each clone is gated on manual Speechify approval of the voice key, while simba-english and simba-multilingual keep serving clones self-serve.Voice AI