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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.
One developer rewrote NVIDIA's streaming RE-USE model in Rust and measured 8.4 ms per 20 ms frame on an M3 CPU, against 16.9 ms through WebGPU.
IBM's 15 October post and the Apache 2.0 cards compose Granite Switch 4.1 so chat, decision checks, and speech share one endpoint.
IFM and Inception42 launched Jais 3 on 15 October: six open-weight Arabic models under Apache-2.0, plus a public speech model.
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.
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.
Voice activity detection finds speech and silence; turn detection, endpointing and interruption rules decide what an agent should do with those signals.
Alibaba's Qwen team upgraded its ASR, TTS and Realtime voice models and added TTS-Next and ASR-Next, while a Model Studio notice cut realtime voice rates by up to about 88% from September 22.
