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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.
Pocket TTS with voice cloning shrinks to 1.9 million parameters
A community post says the Pocket TTS text-to-speech model, which supports voice cloning, is now only 1.9 million parameters.
HermesConsole and VoiceManager open-source a low latency local speech-to-speech demo
A hobbyist released VoiceManager, a streaming STT and TTS server under MIT, with a Python client and a Kotlin console reference app. Barge-in is off by default because echo cancellation is hard, and the default setup uses Nemotron and Breeze TTS 2.