Mastodawn

Looking for professionals & researchers in voice #biometrics / #SpeechTech to participate in academic interviews (speaker ID/verification, language recognition, speech analytics, #forensics). Your industry perspectives will inform research on how these technologies are taken up by state institutions.

Matt Coler Jan 18

📣2 Feb: 4th Dutch Speech Tech Day!

Theme: "Crossing the Lines: Academia, Industry, and the Future of Knowledge"

💡Keynote: @davidvanleeuwen.nl

Network with >100 likeminded people!

🗓️ Register by 26 Jan:

https://go.bsky.app/redirect?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2F4th-dutch-speech-tech-day-tickets-1968488756862

More info: https://sites.google.com/view/dutchspeechtechday2026/.

#speechtech

Winbuzzer Dec 18

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/12/18/microsoft-launches-mini-gpt-voice-models-in-azure-foundry-to-cut-latency-and-cost-xcxwbn/

Microsoft Launches ‘Mini’ GPT Voice Models in Azure Foundry to Cut Latency and Cost

#AI #Microsoft #Azure #GenAI #OpenAI #VoiceAI #CloudComputing #SpeechTech #EnterpriseAI

River Nov 15

🚀 I can’t resist adding these two ‘Realistic AI’ voices to PNL Reader. Hey Swedes, how does this sound to you?

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nV08mWCGs0

#TTS #VoiceAI #PNLReader #Sverige #svenska #Sweden #SpeechTech #webdev #devlog #buildinpublic #indiedev

Realistic AI voices on PNL Reader

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Programming N' Language Nov 15

🚀 I can’t resist adding these two ‘Realistic AI’ voices to PNL Reader. Hey Swedes, how does this sound to you?

👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nV08mWCGs0

#TTS #VoiceAI #PNLReader #Sverige #svenska #Sweden #SpeechTech #webdev #devlog #buildinpublic #indiedev

Realistic AI voices on PNL Reader

YouTube

Winbuzzer Jul 15, 2025

Mistral Challenges OpenAI and Google with New Voxtral Open-Source Voice AI Model

#AI #MistralAI #Voxtral #OpenSource #VoiceAI #GenerativeAI #SpeechTech

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/07/15/mistral-challenges-openai-and-google-with-new-voxtral-open-source-voice-ai-model-xcxwbn/

Marianne de Heer Kloots Jun 13, 2025

Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍

Check out the programme for our tutorial, taking place at this year's Interspeech conference in Rotterdam: https://interpretingdl.github.io/speech-interpretability-tutorial/

The schedule features presentations and interactive sessions with a great team of co-organizers: Charlotte Pouw, Gaofei Shen, Martijn Bentum, Tom Lentz, @hmohebbi, @wzuidema, @gchrupala (and me!). We look forward to seeing you there 😃

#SpeechTech #SpeechScience #Interspeech2025

David Hamner Mar 14, 2025

Tested out CSM (Conversational Speech Model) locally and it's really slow even on my RTX 3090. Check out this demo:
https://youtube.com/shorts/r7LTM0HEGC0
This demo works by using Whisper for speech recognition and Ollama for running an LLM locally. CSM seems to be a TTS system that sounds very natural but is way too heavy for this gen of end-user grade hardware.
Code available here: https://github.com/ruapotato/csm-buddy
#AIResearch #SpeechTech #LocalAI #voiceassistant #sesame #csm