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 platform. Google Cloud has been expanding its Chirp 3 HD voices. OpenAI continues to iterate on its own speech synthesis. And the market underpinning all of this activity is enormous — voice AI crossed $22 billion globally in 2026, with the voice AI agents segment alone projected to reach $47.5 billion by 2034, according to industry estimates.On Thursday morning, Mistral AI entered that fight with a fundamentally different proposition. The Paris-based AI startup released Voxtral TTS, what it calls the first frontier-quality, open-weight text-to-speech model designed specifically for enterprise u [...]
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