NVIDIA's 364M-parameter multilingual text-to-speech model gains Arabic, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese support, enabling low-latency voice agents on private infrastructure.
A new 1M-human-rating benchmark reveals that conversational speech systems underperform on emotional nuance, speaker consistency, and accent handling despite saturation on latency metrics.
Spotify introduces AI-generated audiobook creation via ElevenLabs integration, expanding language support and Audiobook+ tiers at its Investor Day event.