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Python and Arduino animatronic speech tutorial

Learn how to program speech synthesis for an animatronic mouth using Python and Arduino. Discover how to synchronize speech ...
HackerNoon

Voice agent APIs in 2026, compared: which one actually hears your users?

Compare AssemblyAI, OpenAI, Deepgram and ElevenLabs voice agent APIs on accuracy, pricing, latency, languages and production ...
Slator

AI Translation’s Key Benchmark Takes Aim at Low-Resource Languages

The Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT26) has moved into its active evaluation phase, with test data releases and submission windows now opening across several of the conference’s shared ...
Business.com

Best Free Text-to-Speech Software for 2026

Creating audio content for your business doesn’t mean you have to invest in expensive production tools or hire voice actors. For businesses with an occasional need for audio, free text-to-speech ...
Reuters

Supreme Court sides with Trump in fight tied to speech curbs on immigration judges

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court sided on Tuesday with President Donald Trump's administration in a dispute involving a free-speech challenge by federal immigration judges to a ...
Geeky Gadgets

Free Open-Source App Turns Any Audio File Into Text Offline

Transcribing audio to text on your PC is made accessible and secure with Vibe, an open source application that operates entirely offline. By using OpenAI’s Whisper model, Vibe supports transcription ...
Digital Trends

This beanie turns your thoughts into text, and it’s the least obnoxious wearable I’ve seen in years

A new wearable device that looks like a simple beanie could soon change how people interact with computers. Developed by Silicon Valley startup Sabi, the prototype uses brain-computer interface (BCI) ...
VentureBeat

Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform.
TechCrunch

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets ...
Business Insider

I went to Trump's State of the Union. This was the moment when the room's mood shifted.

It ended up being the longest State of the Union speech in American history. I was one of over 100 reporters seated in the House chamber during President Donald Trump's address on Tuesday night, when ...
IEEE

Avatron: 3D Face Avatar and Voice Generation from Text

Abstract: Speech-driven 3D facial animation models are piv otal components in a variety of human interaction systems. However, speech-driven methods are strongly dependent on the quality of input ...