I’ve been fortunate to invest in several AI funding rounds—from pre-seed to Series B to F—and to see up close how billions have flowed into ...

The best audio processing library built on Apple's MLX framework, providing fast and efficient text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-text (STT), and speech-to-speech (STS) on Apple Silicon. Kokoro Fast, ...

Abstract: Recent advances in deep learning technology have enabled high-quality speech synthesis, and text-to-speech models are widely used in a variety of applications. However, even state-of-the-art ...

The landscape of generative audio is shifting toward efficiency. A new open-source contender, Kani-TTS-2, has been released by the team at nineninesix.ai. This model marks a departure from heavy, ...

Abstract: Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have led to substantial improvements in system accuracy and robustness, particularly in converting speech signals into text sequences.