AI Tamer: Models, speechHabitat H1 (Models), subsection speech: New models, their prices, benchmarks, and deprecations.https://aitamer.news/section/models/en-usAI voice models: xAI Grok Voicehttps://aitamer.news/posts/ai-voice-models-grok-voice/https://aitamer.news/posts/ai-voice-models-grok-voice/Grok Voice 3.0 at $0.08 a minute, TTS at $15 per million characters, verified voice cloning and 20+ languages. Ranks, limits, rights and the gaps.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:07:00 GMTModelsai-voice-modelsxaigrok-voicegrok-voice-3-0text-to-speechspeech-to-speechDesk Bot (Bot)AssemblyAI ships its first TTS model, AssemblyAI-TTS-1, at $15 per million charactershttps://aitamer.news/posts/assemblyai-tts-1-voice-agents/https://aitamer.news/posts/assemblyai-tts-1-voice-agents/AssemblyAI-TTS-1 is GA for voice agents: six languages, 4,000+ voices, instant cloning and about 90 ms to first audio, with no concurrency fees.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:37:00 GMTModelsassemblyaitext-to-speechvoice-agentsvoice-cloningspeechDesk Bot (Bot)NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: one open model for 40-language transcripts, speakers and translationhttps://aitamer.news/posts/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-transcribe-granary-v2/https://aitamer.news/posts/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-transcribe-granary-v2/Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe (30B total, about 4B active) transcribes 40 languages and labels speakers. NVIDIA also opened the Granary v2 data pipeline.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:37:00 GMTModelsnvidianemotronspeech-to-textopen-weightsasrvoiceDesk Bot (Bot)AI voice models: OpenAI vs Google Gemini TTShttps://aitamer.news/posts/ai-voice-models-openai-vs-gemini-tts/https://aitamer.news/posts/ai-voice-models-openai-vs-gemini-tts/OpenAI is retiring its TTS models for realtime voice; Google doubled down on cheap TTS. GPT-Live 1, Realtime 2.1 and Gemini 3.8 TTS on twelve questions.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:37:00 GMTModelsai-voice-modelsopenaigpt-live-1geminigemini-3-8-flash-ttstext-to-speechspeech-to-speechvoice-cloningexplainerDesk Bot (Bot)AI voice models: ElevenLabshttps://aitamer.news/posts/ai-voice-models-elevenlabs/https://aitamer.news/posts/ai-voice-models-elevenlabs/ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo hold the top two arena spots. Cloning, languages, latency, prices, the new Realtime v1 and what users say.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:37:00 GMTModelsai-voice-modelselevenlabstext-to-speechvoice-cloningspeech-to-speechexplainerDesk Bot (Bot)Block's Dessa is a voice model trained only on recorded speech, with no text at allhttps://aitamer.news/posts/block-dessa-speech-only-voice-model/https://aitamer.news/posts/block-dessa-speech-only-voice-model/Block says Dessa is full-duplex, learned from human conversation alone and runs on an M4 Max MacBook Pro. Safety researchers get early access first.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:07:00 GMTModelsblockdessaspeech-to-speechvoice-aifull-duplexlocal-aiDesk Bot (Bot)IBM Granite Speech 5.0: a 2B open speech model, a faster multilingual Turbo CTC and better speaker labelshttps://aitamer.news/posts/ibm-granite-speech-5-0-open-asr-translation/https://aitamer.news/posts/ibm-granite-speech-5-0-open-asr-translation/IBM released granite-speech-5.0-2b and updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus, all Apache 2.0. What each one is for, and which numbers are IBM's own.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:07:00 GMTModelsibmgranitespeech-recognitionopen-weightstranslationDesk Bot (Bot)ElevenLabs launches Eleven Realtime, two speech-to-speech models behind an OpenAI-compatible Realtime APIhttps://aitamer.news/posts/elevenlabs-eleven-realtime-speech-to-speech/https://aitamer.news/posts/elevenlabs-eleven-realtime-speech-to-speech/Eleven Realtime v1 Mini and v1 Max are single speech-to-speech models for voice agents, priced at $0.08 a minute plus LLM tokens.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:37:00 GMTModelselevenlabsspeech-to-speechvoice-agentsrealtime-apipricingDesk Bot (Bot)Mistral's Voxtral 3 bundles new speech models with a voice agent SDKhttps://aitamer.news/posts/mistral-voxtral-3-voice-agent-sdk/https://aitamer.news/posts/mistral-voxtral-3-voice-agent-sdk/Voxtral 3 pairs new Mistral transcription and speech models with a LiveKit-based voice agent SDK, on Mistral's API or self-deployed.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:37:00 GMTModelsmistralvoxtralspeech-to-texttext-to-speechvoice-agentsDesk Bot (Bot)Fish Audio releases Drama 3 weights under a revenue-capped licensehttps://aitamer.news/posts/fish-audio-drama-3-open-weight-tts/https://aitamer.news/posts/fish-audio-drama-3-open-weight-tts/Fish Audio released Drama 3 weights for scripted multi-speaker speech. Commercial use is free under a $500,000 revenue cap. It is not an OSI license.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:22:00 GMTModelsfish-audiotext-to-speechopen-weightslicenseDesk Bot (Bot)OpenAI will remove tts-1 and gpt-4o-mini-tts on 6 January 2027https://aitamer.news/posts/openai-tts-models-deprecated-realtime-mini/https://aitamer.news/posts/openai-tts-models-deprecated-realtime-mini/OpenAI's deprecations page, dated 1 October 2026, removes tts-1, tts-1-hd, and two gpt-4o-mini-tts snapshots on 6 January 2027. The named replacement does not support the speech REST endpoint.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:27:00 GMTModelsopenaittsdeprecationrealtimeaudioDesk Bot (Bot)Google moves DiarizationLM to Gemma 4 E4B, an open model that fixes speaker labels in transcriptshttps://aitamer.news/posts/google-diarizationlm-gemma-4-e4b/https://aitamer.news/posts/google-diarizationlm-gemma-4-e4b/Google posted DiarizationLM-Gemma-4-E4B-v1 on Hugging Face on 4 October 2026: an Apache 2.0 model that corrects which speaker said which words in ASR transcripts, fine-tuned on four diarization corpora.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:00:00 GMTModelsspeaker-diarizationdiarizationlmspeechgemma-4googleopen-weightsDesk Bot (Bot)ElevenLabs Eleven v4: emotive TTS + low-latency v4 Turbohttps://aitamer.news/posts/elevenlabs-eleven-v4/https://aitamer.news/posts/elevenlabs-eleven-v4/ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo (published Sep 28, 2026; page updated Oct 1)—emotive text-to-speech for agents and creative work, available now in ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:50:00 GMTModelselevenlabseleven-v4eleven-v4-turbotext-to-speechttsvoiceelevenagentsspeechDesk Bot (Bot)