Text-to-speech (TTS) tools convert written text into spoken word using AI, which can increase accessibility and offer a shortcut to natural-sounding voice-overs for creative and professional projects.
A Chinese startup called Yunshang Qulv released an open-source text-to-speech model on July 1, 2026, that does something no commercially deployed rival currently offers: it replaces a single word ...
AI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its latest speech-to-text model, on September 18, 2026, holding batch pricing at $0.10 per hour of audio while describing the model as twice as accurate as Grok ...