Hume emphasized its Octave TTS pricing is around half the cost of the competing offering from AI voice creation startup ElevenLabs.

“We’re launching the first LLM for text-to-speech—a model that understands words in context, predicting the right emotions, rhythm, cadence, and emphasis ... While the current release focuses on ...

The rhythm of sounds in ASMR cake indulges the mind and feelings with deep tranquility. Feel every second of the sound that ...

A list of open speech corpora for Speech Technology research and development. This list has a preference for free (i.e. no $ cost) and truly open corpora (e.g. released under a Creative Commons ...

Octave, short for Omni-Capable Text and Voice Engine, is an LLM developed by Hume AI tailored for text-to-speech tasks. This innovation comes at a time when ElevenLabs launched its new speech-to-text ...

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Viz Media translator Kumar Sivasubramanian discusses the challenges of approximating Dandadan's pop culture references to English manga readers, and more.

Accents are like personality quirks—they make us unique, spark conversations, and sometimes, let’s be real, drive people up ...