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Elevenlabs releases two Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models
The new Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models target real-time AI conversation. The v1 Max variant scores 98.8 percent on Big Bench Audio with a 0.57-second response time, according to Elevenlabs, which claims no model on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard is both faster and more accurate.
Gradium releases Phonon, open-source on-device text-to-speech models
Gradium released Phonon, two small TTS models of 31M and 40M parameters, with a fully open-source inference stack targeting CPUs, GPUs and NPUs across 10+ backends, mostly written in Rust.
Cloudflare releases Clairic, a model that extracts data from documents
Cloudflare says Clairic pulls data from documents faster and more cheaply than large language models.
Kling AI releases Kling 4.0 video generator with stereo audio and lip sync
Kling 4.0 supports clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompts of up to 8,000 tokens, plus a lighter Flash variant. Comparisons with Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 show it holding its own without clearly pulling ahead.