Chatbots find their voice as audio assistants rise

Siri, Alexa and other virtual assistants are turning from clunky robots into smart agents, while $500 bln OpenAI may be ...

Gemini Voice Brings Fast Multi-Speaker Audio, Rich Styles and 32k Context Window

Built on Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro with a 32,000-token context window, you get faster results and precise delivery for ...

Disney to invest $1 billion in OpenAI, license characters for Sora video tool

Walt Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will let the startup use characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel ...
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Prank calling about becoming Siri’s new voice

I called pretending to audition as the new voice of Siri. Let’s just say the conversation got a bit awkward, but it was all harmless fun. Remember the torture memos? The boat strike memos may be worse ...
GitHub

Kokoro Web - Free AI Text to Speech

Kokoro Web is powered by hexgrad/Kokoro-82M, an open-weight 82 million parameter Text-to-Speech model available on Hugging Face. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to ...
The New York Times

Apple’s A.I. Chief, Who Failed to Deliver a Smarter Siri, Is Retiring

John Giannandrea, hired from Google, is leaving after the release of a new Siri was postponed. Apple has fallen behind rivals in efforts to develop A.I. products. By Tripp Mickle Tripp Mickle has ...
The Verge

Apple AI chief steps down following Siri setbacks

A former Microsoft AI VP is replacing John Giannandrea as Apple’s head of AI. A former Microsoft AI VP is replacing John Giannandrea as Apple’s head of AI. is a news writer who covers the streaming ...