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Microsoft's latest AI project can generate a 90-minute podcast in English or Mandarin from nothing but text — and anyone can try it out

What's happening today with Microsoft and AI, then? For once, it's not Copilot being stuffed into something, instead, an interesting new open-source project called VibeVoice. VibeVoice is an entirely ...
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Microsoft’s new AI can turn plain text into a full podcast — and it’s freakishly good at it

What's happening today with Microsoft and AI, then? For once, it's not Copilot being stuffed into something, instead, an interesting new open-source project called VibeVoice. VibeVoice is an entirely ...
Nature

Meta AI creates speech-to-speech translator that works in dozens of languages

The dream of a Babel fish — the translating animal envisioned by classic science-fiction franchise The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — could be a bit closer to reality. Researchers at tech giant ...
TechCrunch

Podcasting platform Podcastle launches a text-to-speech model with more than 450 AI voices

Podcast recording and editing platform Podcastle is now joining other companies in the AI-powered, text-to-speech race by releasing its own AI model called Asyncflow v1.0. An API for developers will ...
Engadget

Google's new text-to-speech can switch languages on the fly

Google is enhancing Gemini's text-to-speech (TTS). On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company previewed a new TTS feature, built on native audio output, that can "converse in more expressive ways." ...