text to speech
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Microsoft
Microsoft ships a live transcription model at $0.54 an hour
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming returns partial text in about 100 milliseconds, and two new voice models join it for real-time agents.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs v4 targets performed dialogue for AI video
The new model stacks direction tags, follows the scene it is in and clones a voice from ten seconds of audio, and its Turbo variant answers in about 150 milliseconds. Dialogue was the last unperformed layer of a generated scene.