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Voice & AI audio

Text-to-speech, voice cloning and speech AI — the models giving software a natural human voice.

The 2026 voice and TTS landscape, mapped

AI voice became indistinguishable from human this year. The real story is the structural split it's created — and which camp wins which kind of work.

5 min read · 15 June 2026

Sesame's voice app and the bet on actually talking to AI

The voices are good enough now. The open question is whether the habit follows.

4 min read · 28 May 2026

OpenAI's voice models that reason while they listen

Reasoning, translation and transcription, collapsed into one real-time voice stack.

4 min read · 7 May 2026

Mistral AI6mo ago

Voxtral: Mistral's open-weight voice model is a structural bet against the incumbents

A 4B TTS that runs on one consumer GPU — and rewrites the value proposition for the whole voice AI market.

5 min read · 26 March 2026