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Google's new transcription model edits what you said News
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe removes filler words, silently resolves speakers' self-corrections, and can make function calls out of the transcription layer -- which makes it excellent for voice agents and unusable as a verbatim record.
A model small enough to run on a laptop reads heard speech from brain scans News
Researchers rebuilt a brain-to-speech decoder around the physical geometry of the scanner helmet, shrinking the decoder about twentyfold while matching prior accuracy, and then used it to identify which properties of speech the brain signal actually carries.
NVIDIA's Open Full-Duplex Voice Model Wants an 80GB GPU News
NVIDIA released an 11-billion-parameter speech model that listens and speaks at the same time and calls tools mid-conversation, and its own documentation requires a GPU with at least 80 GB of memory and lists more than a dozen failure modes.
Full-Duplex Speech Models: Listening and Talking at the Same Time Lesson
A full-duplex speech model processes incoming audio while it is generating outgoing audio, which removes the turn detector that decides when you have stopped speaking and makes interruption, backchannels, and overlap possible.
Neural text-to-speech: how a model turns writing into a voice Lesson
Neural text-to-speech converts written text into audio in three stages - working out the sounds, deciding how long each one lasts, and generating the actual waveform - and the last stage, the vocoder, is where most of the model's size and difficulty hides.
NVIDIA NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B Tool
An open-weight end-to-end full-duplex voice model that listens and speaks simultaneously and calls tools mid-conversation, shipped with both offline inference code and a containerised WebSocket streaming deployment. Needs an NVIDIA GPU with at least 80 GB of memory, and uses a single fixed voice.
Hugging Face speech-to-speech Tool
Local voice-activity detection to speech recognition to language model to text-to-speech pipeline, threaded through queues and exposed as an OpenAI Realtime-compatible server so existing clients can point at it unchanged.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Tool
Google's new transcription model, shipped as two endpoints: a bidirectional streaming version for live voice agents and a batch version with speaker attribution and word-level timestamps. Handles 85+ languages with mid-stream language switching, cleans filler and self-corrections automatically, and can make function calls to other Gemini models. Try it in AI Studio.