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Imported posts live in the [archive](/archive). - [Search](/blog/search) - [AI (53)](/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 (53)](/blog/category/developer-experience) - [Developer Relations (6)](/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) 273 posts **2026** - [WebSocket vs REST TTS APIs for Voice Agents](/websocket-vs-rest-tts-voice-agents) (Aug 2026 · Original · Text-to-Speech): Choosing between WebSocket and REST for your streaming TTS API changes your voice agent's latency floor. Here is how to pick the right protocol. - [Smallest.ai Raises $13M to Split Voice Agents in Two](/smallest-ai-series-a-voice-4-0) (Aug 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Smallest.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. - [GPT-Transcribe Makes Context the New ASR Feature](/gpt-transcribe-context-hints) (Jul 2026 · Original · Speech-to-Text): OpenAI's GPT-Transcribe launched July 29, 2026 with prompt, keyword, and language hints. Free-form context lifted accuracy from 38.5% to 44.6%. - [Grok Voice 2.0 Ships With a Quiet 60% Price Rise](/grok-voice-2-price-rise) (Jul 2026 · Original · Voice AI): Grok 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. - [Fish Audio's $52M Seed: Open Weights Got Them Here](/fish-audio-52m-seed-s21-pro) (Jul 2026 · Original · Text-to-Speech): Fish 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. - [TIL: git history fixup replaces the autosquash dance](/git-history-fixup) (Jul 2026 · Original · TIL): Git 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. - [OpenAI Presence: Voice Agents You Can't Self-Serve](/openai-presence-voice-agents) (Jul 2026 · Original · Voice AI): OpenAI Presence deploys enterprise voice and chat agents, but only via OpenAI's own engineers. No API, no pricing, no self-serve. What that means. - [AgentForger: One Link Forges an AI Insider in Your Org](/agentforger-one-link-forges-insider) (Jul 2026 · Original · AI): Zenity disclosed AgentForger, a ChatGPT Workspace Agents flaw where one phishing link forged a persistent AI insider. OpenAI fixed it in four days. - [Kimi K3 Weights Drop as Washington Argues Distillation](/k3-weights-drop-washington-distillation) (Jul 2026 · Original · AI): Moonshot ships Kimi K3's 2.8 trillion parameter weights days after the US floated a ban and accused it of distilling Anthropic's Fable. - [What a Week at Speechify](/what-a-week-at-speechify) (Jul 2026 · Original · Voice AI): One week at Speechify: Simba went multilingual, streaming TTS gained timestamps, voice agents learned to switch language mid-call, headers got renamed. Page 8 of 28. 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