Browsing: Voice & Audio

So apparently Alex Ziskind spent about $60K on four Mac Studios, which he then wired together, and gave the whole rig the same coding job as a cloud agent.

Every hosted text-to-speech API eventually hits the same wall: per-character billing that scales with your product, not your budget. ElevenLabs, OpenAI’s TTS endpoint, and Google Cloud’s voice API all work well, but none of them let you run inference on hardware you already own or keep customer audio off a third-party server. Zyphra’s ZONOS2 changes…

IFA Berlin 2026 opened today at Messe Berlin, and the company making your phone case and HDMI cables arrived with something no accessories manufacturer has brought to Europe’s largest consumer electronics show before: a coherent claim to the connected-life market. Hama GmbH & Co KG — the 103-year-old German accessories giant headquartered in Monheim, Bavaria…

Major music publishersSony Music PublishingandWarner Chappell Musichave filed a majorcopyright infringement lawsuitagainstAnthropic, the developer behind theartificial intelligenceassistantClaude. The legal action, filed in aCalifornia federal court, also explicitly names Anthropic Chief Executive OfficerDario Amodeiand co-founderBenjamin Mann. 

NCAI released “Barco Sound,” an artificial intelligence (AI) audio platform that can easily generate voice in natural language, on the 2nd. It is an integrated platform that automatically generates and edits individual audio necessary for content production such as games, videos, and animations with AI. The company explained that it reflected feedback received from domestic…

Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) Prosecutors in Taipei on Wednesday indicted 57 people in connection with a sophisticated romance scam that allegedly defrauded more than 20,000 people out of at least NT$900 million (US$28.32 million) using voice-cloning technology.

Nicola Coughlan, Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville are among the high-profile names backing a new campaign against AI voice cloning.

Nearly every part of Adobe seems to be undergoing a major wave of AI-powered updates, including the Adobe Incubator. The internal initiative is a startup-like program where employees can pitch research projects to compete for funding and res cohort, a nearly 50% increase over last year’s submissions, thanks in part to AI

When The Morning Show Season 4 premiered in September 2025 with a plot built around a deepfake video that destroys a news anchor’s credibility and a network that deploys a synthetic, multilingual AI version of its star anchor to cover the Olympics, critics called it timely soap opera dressed up in tech anxiety. They were…

There is a specific kind of frustration that hits creators somewhere around the point their channel starts working. You look at the analytics, and a meaningful share of your audience is in countries where your language is a second or third language. They are watching anyway, with subtitles or with effort, and they are almost…