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220 posts
2026
TIL: Test TTS Voices With CurlOriginalOne curl command to compare TTS voice output side by side before you write any integration code. Handy for prototyping or auditing voice quality.TIL
UN Geneva and GPT-5.6: AI governance enters a new phaseOriginalThe first UN AI governance dialogue brought 169 countries to Geneva as GPT-5.6 went public. Meta launched Muse Image and immediately faced a privacy backlash.AI
Voice AI Is Worth Billions While Speech Is Nearly FreeOriginalIn two weeks of July 2026, ElevenLabs talked a $22 billion tender offer and Gradium raised $100 million while speech itself got nearly free.Voice AI
Gene Wilder's AI Voice: The Paperwork Is the StoryOriginalNetflix 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
GPT-Live Failed Its First Viral Test in 12 SecondsOriginalOpenAI's GPT-Live launched July 8 and the internet found its weak spot in hours. TikToker Husk broke it with a spelling test, and the full-duplex interruptions are already a meme.Voice AI
OpenAI's Best Voice Model Is Locked Away from DevelopersOriginalOpenAI's GPT-Live-1 full-duplex voice models replaced Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT on July 8, 2026, but developers get no API access.Voice AI
Pipecat vs LiveKit Agents: The Trade-offs That Lock You InOriginalTwo open-source frameworks dominate production voice agents. They solve different stack layers and picking wrong means a rewrite. Here is how to decide.Voice AI
Grok Voice Gets 21 New Voices. The Price Is the PointOriginalxAI added 21 multilingual voices, voice cloning from one minute of audio, and a no-code agent builder to Grok Voice at $0.05 per minute of audio. Here's what that means for the voice AI market.Voice AI
An Open Source TTS Model That Edits Words After RecordingOriginalViiTorVoice-NAR is an open-source TTS model that can replace individual words inside finished audio without regenerating the surrounding content. It also clones voices without needing a transcript.Voice AI
TIL: Playing Audio From the Terminal With SoX PlayOriginalplay (from SoX) plays any audio file through your speakers with one command. No media player needed when you are already in the terminal.TIL