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Google AI Studio@GoogleAIStudioAI score42AIGoogle introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, describing them as its most expressive audio generation models yet. The models are designed to help creators, developers, and enterprises build richer, more expressive audio experiences, and can be tried through the Gemini API and AI Studio.
AIGoogle DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, text-to-speech models offering custom voice design, line-by-line performance control, and multilingual support across more than 100 languages. Flash TTS is rolling out to developers in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio and to everyone in Gemini Notebook, while Flash-Lite TTS is available to developers and in Google Vids. Voice replication requires consent verification, and generated audio carries SynthID watermarking.
Why it matters: The source details the voice design, performance direction, and consent safeguards, showing how the model covers creative and high-volume use cases with access across several Google products.
AIGoogle DeepMind's latest Gemini Audio models let developers design new vocal personas from natural language prompts, directing pacing, back channeling, and dialect shifts line by line. Developers can also recreate consistent adult voice profiles from a 30-second audio sample, with built-in consent verification, SynthID watermarking, and C2PA credentials.
AIBaseten has made NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization available as batch, streaming, and real-time diarized transcription presets. The single checkpoint serves four algorithmic latencies from 0.32 to 30.4 seconds, and the post reports DER of 9.8% on AISHELL-4 at the low profile versus 27.2% for Streaming Sortformer v2.1.
Why it matters: The post shows one checkpoint serving four latency profiles with DER figures against named baselines, useful for judging real-time speaker labeling tradeoffs.
Lewis Tunstall @ COLM 🌉@_lewtunAI score40AILewis Tunstall of Hugging Face shares his first cameo as a voice actor using the Reachy Mini robot, linked to a YouTube video about Australian football. The post itself provides no technical details, and the Reachy Mini context comes from a separate post by Andi Marafioti about NVIDIA's open-source Nemotron 3 Diarization model.
ModelScope@ModelScope2022AI score44AINVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Diarization is now available on ModelScope, labeling speakers and timestamps in streaming audio for up to eight speaker slots per conversation. The 99.2M-parameter model uses an end-to-end streaming architecture built on NVIDIA's Streaming Sortformer, running on Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell GPUs via NeMo Speech C++. It is designed to pair with existing ASR systems such as Nemotron ASR, Parakeet, Canary, or Whisper to produce speaker-attributed transcripts.
Qwen@Alibaba_QwenAI score62AIAlibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, upgrading its ASR, TTS and Realtime models and adding TTS-Next and ASR-Next. The post says TTS prices fell about 70%, Realtime about 85%, and ASR up to 95%. More APIs are coming soon.
OpenBMB@OpenBMBAI score59AIOpenBMB highlights VoxWeft, an open-source simultaneous interpretation system for Apple Silicon built by developer @HenryZ30734018 on an MLX implementation of VoxCPM2. The system turns live speech into translated speech on-device, with first audio streaming in about 170 ms on an M5 MacBook. VoxCPM2 generates speech in 30 languages, supports direct language-pair interpretation, and clones a target voice from about 5 seconds of reference audio.
AIGoogle made the Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS models generally available, along with the Gemini API Voices endpoint. Flash TTS is positioned for studio-grade voice fidelity and long-form multi-turn stability, while Flash-Lite TTS targets high-throughput, real-time voice agents and replaces gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview. The update adds voice design, voice replication with consent verification, and access to 150+ prebuilt and custom voices.
OpenBMB@OpenBMBAI score23AIA developer connected a Raspberry Pi Zero W2 with a webcam and ambient microphone to MiniCPM-o 4.5, an open-source model running locally on a PC. The setup streams audio and video in real time with full-duplex interaction and no cloud APIs.
Xiaomi MiMo@XiaomiMiMoAI score36AIXiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 combines code, design, and tool use to build frontend interfaces, presentations, Figma-linked visual assets, and videos. The post says MiMo-V2.5-TTS supports narration in video production, and that the model can compose music, including an orchestral piece for around ten instruments that can be converted to MIDI. On Design Arena, the Pro version reportedly performs comparably to Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.
Google AI Developers@googleaidevsAI score8AIGoogle AI Developers pointed readers to a Google blog post about Gemini 3.8 Live and its extended thinking capability. The post itself contains no further details, so specifics such as benchmarks, pricing, or availability cannot be confirmed from this source.
Google AI Developers@googleaidevsAI score22AIGoogle AI Developers showed a coding tutor built with Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking that views the user's screen and calls functions to reference the p5.js library. The tutor points out the exact bug on screen and talks the user through the logic.
Xiaomi MiMo@XiaomiMiMoAI score34AIXiaomi's MiMo team released MiMo Gallery, a showcase where every 3D model, game, slide deck, video, music piece, and image was generated by MiMo-V2.6. The post previews MiMo-V2.6 as an upcoming model and points readers to the gallery for a first look.
Gemini Notebook@Gemini_NotebookAI score34AIGoogle's Gemini Notebook says Live Chat is now fully rolled out to all Ultra subscribers on mobile. The feature enables real-time voice conversations with notebooks in about 100 languages, powered by the latest audio models. Users can ask questions about their sources and receive step-by-step guidance largely hands-free.
OpenBMB@OpenBMBAI score44AIDeveloper @mrgoodmantweets built MiniCPM-o Booking Desk, an open-source appointment booking agent that uses MiniCPM-o 4.5 for real-time, full-duplex voice and audio-visual interaction. The agent listens, speaks, and reads live booking status from an operator screen, while deterministic state control keeps execution reliable. An appointment is only booked after user confirmation.
Google AI Developers@googleaidevsAI score22AIGoogle AI Developers demonstrates Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking as a workshop assistant that analyzes a user's workspace, reasons aloud, and guides a beginner through building a cyberdeck. The demo targets users with no prior experience building one.
Google AI@GoogleAIAI score47AIGoogle's weekly recap covers Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, described as its most advanced live dialogue audio models yet. It also notes Dreambeans, a GoogleLabs experiment curating daily personalized stories, is now generally available, and that CC has expanded into a shared agent for household coordination. Google Pics, a Workspace tool for generating and co-creating images, is now GA, alongside AlphaGenome Atlas, DeepMind's interactive genomics discovery platform.
SpaceXAI@SpaceXAIAI score46AIxAI's Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 is twice as accurate as its predecessor in customer-support calls, spoken credentials, and short voice commands. The post lists these three scenarios as the areas of improvement, with no further figures given.
SpaceXAI@SpaceXAIAI score23AIAtlassian reports that Transcribe 2.0 in Loom captured user instructions more accurately than its predecessor. Users can dictate change requests in Loom and export them directly to Cursor for coding.
SpaceXAI@SpaceXAIAI score34AIxAI has made Transcribe 2.0 available today in the Grok Voice API. Pricing is $0.10 per hour for batch transcription and $0.20 per hour for streaming. The linked blog post contains further details.
SpaceXAI@SpaceXAIAI score42AIxAI has introduced Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, which it calls the world's most accurate speech transcription model. The post gives no benchmark scores, pricing, or availability details.
AIxAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, a speech-to-text model that is twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 at the same price, and ranks first for accuracy among 32 streaming models on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. Batch transcription costs $0.10 per hour of audio and streaming $0.20 per hour, with diarization, timestamps, and key terms included. Existing Speech-to-Text API integrations gain the improvement with no code changes, and developers must pin grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 to stay on the older model during the transition.
OpenBMB@OpenBMBAI score29AIDeveloper Alican Kiraz fine-tuned OpenBMB's open-source VoxCPM2 voice model on nearly 100 hours of natural Turkish speech, creating Kahya-TTS for Turkish text-to-speech. The project shows how open-source voice models can be adapted to new languages and specialized datasets. The model is available on Hugging Face.
OpenBMB@OpenBMBAI score20AIOpenBMB says Dubedo is the kind of product it hoped VoxCPM2 would enable, citing speaker-aware cloning, multilingual generation, and an editing studio. The post praises @dubedostudio's work, while the background post describes Dubedo as dubbing into 30 languages with per-speaker voice cloning and a beta open for trial.
LiveKit@livekitAI score8AILiveKit is hosting a voice AI event with Aqua Voice and Speechmatics during SF Tech Week on Wednesday, October 7, from 5:30 to 8:30 pm in San Francisco. The post invites attendees to meet the people building voice interfaces, and RSVPs are handled through a Partiful link.
SpaceXAI@SpaceXAIAI score55AIGrok Voice is now live on fal, and the post says it answers in 0.70 seconds and can finish tool calls before a sentence ends. Its listed capabilities include transcription with word-level timestamps, text to speech in 30+ voices across 25+ languages, and voice cloning from two minutes of audio.
LiveKit@livekitAI score14AILiveKit is offering startups $10K in Cloud credits, a year of its Scale plan, and $7K in partner inference credits, with $1K each for Google Gemma, Deepgram, Inworld, Rime, Fish Audio, AssemblyAI, and Gradium. The partner credits cover the voice stack in one workspace without requiring separate provider keys. Startups can apply through
Greg Brockman@gdbAI score22AIGreg Brockman shared a demo of Codex voice running in CarPlay, letting users build software by speaking while driving. A quoted post from Jonathan Roomer says the setup runs through a third-party iOS app that connects ChatGPT Voice to Codex and his Mac.
Google for Developers@googledevsAI score22AIGoogle is hosting Gemini Audio | At Night in San Francisco on Thursday, September 24, from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM at The Pearl. Attendees can try Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, 3.8 Live, and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, meet the teams that built them, and test live demos. RSVP is available at goo.gle/4xpdcBn.
AIinclusionAI has published Realtime-Venus on Hugging Face with two 9B checkpoints: Realtime-Venus-Omni for audio-visual interaction and Realtime-Venus-Audio for audio-only conversation. Both are built on MiniCPM-o 4.5 with a Qwen3-8B backbone and support full-duplex dialogue, proactive responses, and training-free long-video memory. The asynchronous Realtime-Venus-Harness runtime is hosted in a separate GitHub repository.
Google AI Studio@GoogleAIStudioPickAI score72AIGoogle AI Studio released Gemini 3.8 Live, a native speech-to-speech model with an Extended Thinking variant, and made it available through the Live API. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, released last month, supports 85+ languages with a reported 4.0% streaming and 2.6% non-streaming Word Error Rate, and accepts a custom vocabulary of up to 1,000 terms. Live API audio pricing is listed at $0.005/min for input and $0.018/min for output.
Why it matters: The post lists concrete Live API capabilities, per-minute audio pricing, and transcription accuracy figures, helping developers weigh voice agent options against their own cascaded pipelines.
koray kavukcuoglu@koraykvAI score60AIGoogle announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, voice agents with reasoning capabilities. The post says the models take turns more seamlessly, think through complexity, and feel more natural to converse with.
koray kavukcuoglu@koraykvAI score16AIGoogle has published a blog post on building real-time voice applications with Gemini audio. The post itself contains only a link, so specific features, models, or capabilities cannot be confirmed from this source.
LiveKit@livekitAI score31AILiveKit Agents now supports Gemini 3.8 Live, letting developers choose gemini-3.8-live for low-latency audio or gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking for longer asynchronous reasoning. Developers can switch between the two modes without changing their stack. The post points readers to LiveKit's documentation for more details.
Josh Woodward@joshwoodwardAI score31AIGoogle's Gemini Notebook now offers live spoken Q&A over class materials in about 100 languages, and lets students record lectures on the go with audio notes saved automatically to a chosen notebook. University students in 140+ countries can also still get a free Google AI Plan for higher limits and access to more Google products.
LiveKit@livekitAI score22AILiveKit rebuilt its LiveKit Cloud platform around the voice agent as the core unit of work. The redesign lets developers talk to their agent while editing it, click a metric to see the sessions behind it, and navigate back without retracing steps.
Google AI Studio@GoogleAIStudioAI score46AIGoogle introduced two live dialogue models, Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, available through AI Studio and the Gemini API. Gemini 3.8 Live is built for scale and cost efficiency, combining conversational intelligence with fluid dialogue and visual grounding. The Extended Thinking variant targets high-complexity tasks with increased intelligence and multi-step reasoning.
Logan Kilpatrick@OfficialLoganKAI score33AIGoogle is hosting a first-of-its-kind Gemini Audio experience in San Francisco next week, with Logan Kilpatrick attending. The post also points to new Live audio models for building real-time voice applications.
Logan Kilpatrick@OfficialLoganKAI score44AIGoogle has released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, described as new state-of-the-art live audio models available at frontier pricing and performance. The 3.8 Live model supports 97 languages with seamless switching between them, along with async tool calls.
