Everything in voice AI just changed: how enterprise AI builders can benefit

Despite lots of hype, "voice AI" has so far largely been a euphemism for a request-response loop. You speak, a cloud server transcribes your words, a language model thinks, and a robotic voi [...]

Emotive voice AI startup Hume launches new EVI 3 model with rapid custom voice creation

While EVI 3’s specific API pricing has not been announced yet (marked as TBA), the pattern suggests it will be usage-based. [...]

Hume AI open-sources TADA, a speech model five times faster than rivals with zero hallucinated words

Hume AI has open-sourced TADA under the MIT license, a fast speech generation model that processes text and audio in sync and produced zero hallucinations in testing.<br /> The article Hume AI o [...]

Hume launches text-to-speech model Octave that generates emotive, adjustable AI voices on-demand based on your prompts

Hume emphasized its OCTAVE TTS pricing is around half the cost of competing AI voice creation startup ElevenLabs. [...]

xAI launches Grok 4.3 at an aggressively low price and a new, fast, powerful voice cloning suite

While Elon Musk faces off against his former colleague and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in court, Musk's rival firm xAI, founded to take on OpenAI, isn't slowing down on launching competitiv [...]

How to customize your iPhone home screen with iOS 26

Apple has steadily expanded home screen customization on the iPhone over the past few years, and iOS 26 continues that trend with more visual control over app icons. Building on the changes introduced [...]

Hume launches new text-to-speech model Octave that generates custom AI voices with adjustable emotions

Hume emphasized its OCTAVE TTS pricing is around half the cost of competing AI voice creation startup ElevenLabs. [...]

Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal

Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal. [...]

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 plat [...]