Topic
Text-to-speech, voice cloning and speech AI — the models giving software a natural human voice.
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.
The voices are good enough now. The open question is whether the habit follows.
Reasoning, translation and transcription, collapsed into one real-time voice stack.
A 4B TTS that runs on one consumer GPU — and rewrites the value proposition for the whole voice AI market.