ElevenLabs is a startup focused on AI voice cloning and text-to-speech APIs, recently announcing a new feature that allows users to build complete conversational AI agents. Users can now customize various parameters of the conversational agent, such as voice tone and response length, according to their needs on ElevenLabs' developer platform. Previously, ElevenLabs mainly offered various voice and text-to-speech services. The company's growth director, Sam Sklar, stated that...

Recently, Oute AI released a novel text-to-speech synthesis method called OuteTTS-0.1-350M. This method utilizes pure language modeling without the need for external adapters or complex architectures, offering a simplified TTS approach. OuteTTS-0.1-350M is based on the LLaMa architecture, using WavTokenizer to directly generate audio tokens, making the process more efficient. The model features zero-shot voice cloning capability, requiring only a few seconds of reference audio.

Zhipu AI announces that its end-to-end emotional voice technology has officially launched on the Zhipu Qinyan platform and is now available to all users. This technology overcomes the limitations of traditional text-to-speech (TTS) technology, capable of deeply understanding contextual nuances and generating emotionally rich natural dialogues. This marks the evolution of Zhipu AI's speech synthesis technology from simple text reading to an AI that can express genuine emotions.

The release of Fish Speech 1.4 marks a significant breakthrough in multilingual support and performance for this open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model. As an innovative solution committed to providing high-quality and natural-sounding speech synthesis experiences, Fish Speech demonstrates its strong technical capabilities and broad application prospects in this update. The most notable feature of Fish Speech 1.4 is its powerful multilingual support capability: the training data volume has doubled, enhancing the model's

OpenAI has added the Text-to-Speech API to its Developer Playground, making developers' work easier than ever. With just a simple text message input, developers can choose from six preset voices to generate audio.Better yet, this API automatically identifies the language of the text and matches it with the corresponding voice, eliminating the hassle of selecting language and country versions.This service not only simplifies the development process but also provides high-quality voice synthesis t

OpenAI has launched a new reading feature for ChatGPT, allowing users to listen to responses through voice while on the go. This feature is available on the web version, as well as on iOS and Android applications, supporting 37 languages. Users can have ChatGPT read out written responses, enhancing the interaction experience. This feature demonstrates OpenAI's capability to utilize multimodal functionality.

Microsoft's Azure AI Text-to-Speech service has been upgraded, introducing a new male voice and expanded language support. The new male voice, Ryan Multilingual, allows users to create diverse user experiences. Language support has expanded from 14 to 41 languages, offering users more choices.