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Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture some time in the last twelve months. In March 2026 Cohere released Transcribe, a 2B Apache 2.0 model…

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus…

Interfaze, a young YC’s startup, has open-sourced a new speech recognition model. It is called diffusion-gemma-asr-small. The model transcribes audio through a diffusion decoder, not an…

This week, Liquid AI released two new retrieval models. They are LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M and LFM2.5-Embedding-350M. Both hold 350M parameters. Both are the first bidirectional members of the…

Google just announced Gemini 3.5 Live Translate. It is their latest audio model for live speech-to-speech translation. Speech-to-speech means spoken audio goes in, and translated spoken…

Simultaneous interpretation is one of the harder problems in applied AI. You’re asking a model to translate speech before the speaker has finished a sentence. Every…

screening system checks a name against a watchlist, it faces a silent failure mode that nobody talks about. Type “Владимир Путин” into a system indexed on…

Google Search Live is now available globally in 200 countries and 98 languagesSearch Live uses the new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live audio and voice model to…

Cohere AI Labs has released Tiny Aya, a family of small language models (SLMs) that redefines multilingual performance. While many models scale by increasing parameters, Tiny…

If you haven’t read the book The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, you’re probably at least familiar with the idea behind it: that people give…