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According to Bloomberg, AI company Anthropic is preparing to launch a new voice AI assistant integrated into its AI chatbot Claude, expected to be released this month. This new feature will allow users to interact with Claude via voice, enhancing the convenience and naturalness of human-computer interaction. Anthropic plans to launch three distinct English voice modes: Airy, Mellow, and Butt.

MiniMax Audio, a leading innovator in audio technology, has officially released its new Speech-02 series voice model. Supporting over 30 languages and capable of processing 200,000 characters at once, it delivers a more natural, fluent, and convenient audio experience. The new Speech-02 series is the core highlight of this update. According to the official introduction, this series has significantly improved multilingual support, enabling more accurate and native-sounding pronunciations in various languages. Even more impressively, Speech-

OpenAI released an update to its advanced voice mode on Monday, enabling more natural, real-time conversations with ChatGPT. The updated voice assistant is designed to be more human-like in its interactions and minimizes interruptions. OpenAI's post-training researcher, Manuka Stratta, announced the update via a video on the company's official social media channels. This update aims to address a common issue with AI voice assistants: frequent interruptions while users are thinking or pausing.

On March 19th, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model called Orpheus TTS was officially launched. This model has quickly gained attention for its human-like emotional expression, natural and fluent voice quality, and ultra-low latency real-time output stream. Orpheus TTS reportedly excels in real-time conversational scenarios and promises to bring new breakthroughs to intelligent voice interaction. Orpheus TTS focuses on low latency and high emotional expression, with core features including: - **Ultra-Low Latency**: Default latency approximately 2

Sesame's newly released Conversational Speech Model (CSM) has recently sparked heated discussions on X, lauded as a voice model that sounds "just like a real person." Its stunning naturalness and emotional expressiveness not only make it indistinguishable from human speech for users, but also claim to have successfully overcome the uncanny valley effect in the field of voice technology. With the spread of demonstration videos and user feedback, CSM is rapidly becoming a leader in AI voice technology.

OpenAI announced on X that it's making ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode freely available to all users. This advanced mode, based on the GPT-4o mini model, boasts performance comparable to the full GPT-4o model through optimized computational efficiency.

On February 20th, Elon Musk announced an important update on the social platform X, stating that the Grok application has successfully launched the early testing version of Grok 3 voice mode. This news immediately attracted widespread attention.

On January 20, 2025, Doubao App officially released its latest 'end-to-end' voice large model, with significant updates to its real-time voice call functionality. This development marks another leap for Doubao in the field of voice interaction, surpassing the previous ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition), LLM (Large Language Model), and TTS (Text-to-Speech) cascading solutions by integrating voice recognition, understanding, and generation into a single model. After testing by 'Intelligent Emergence,' the standout feature of the new Doubao version is its human-like capabilities.

Today, iFLYTEK officially launched its latest research and development achievement, the Starfire simultaneous translation voice model, marking the debut of the first domestic large model with end-to-end speech simultaneous translation capabilities. This innovative technology has significantly improved the translation performance across all scenes compared to iFLYTEK's previous translation technologies, and has greatly shortened the end-to-end response time.

In the 'Top Ten National Treasures' annual selection initiated by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, China Telecom's self-developed Xingchen Model made the list thanks to its groundbreaking technological achievements. As the first full-size, full-modal, and domestically produced foundational model system in the country, the Xingchen Model demonstrates exceptional capabilities in semantics, speech, vision, and multimodal fields. In the semantic domain, the Xingchen Model has achieved significant breakthroughs. Leveraging a fully domestic 10,000-card cluster and training framework, this model reaches over 93% of the computational efficiency of NVIDIA's equivalent power, with a training duration ratio that is more efficient.

OpenAI has announced the expansion of its ChatGPT's advanced voice mode feature to the web version, allowing users to interact with the AI chatbot directly in the browser. The launch of the web version marks the continuation of the advanced voice mode feature first introduced in the iOS and Android applications. The new feature will initially be available to paid users of ChatGPT, including Plus, Enterprise, Teams, and Edu subscribers.

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has recently signed an agreement with the AI company Ethovox to protect actors' rights in artificial intelligence voice models. The primary goal of this agreement is to establish a responsible framework for the use of AI in the entertainment industry, ensuring that actors' rights are upheld in the new technological era. Under this agreement, actors will receive upfront payments when recording their voices and will share in subsequent revenues. This means that actors will be compensated fairly when their voices are used in AI models.

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has recently signed a landmark agreement with the AI voice company Ethovox, setting clear regulations for the AI application of actor voice data. This agreement not only provides a reliable framework for the entertainment industry’s use of AI technology but also establishes new standards for protecting actors' rights. According to the agreement, actors will receive dual revenue guarantees: an upfront payment for voice recordings and ongoing revenue sharing from the application of AI voice models. More importantly, any use of voice data requires consent.