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5 Vox Roboti reports on Text-to-Speech. Everything the desk has filed, newest first.
Beats:Synthetic VoiceVoice AI
ElevenLabs turned synthetic speech from a robotic parlor trick into a billion-dollar juggernaut. Here is how their voice engine actually works.
Selma Ortiz · 13d ago · 5 min read
Microsoft dropped MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and MAI-Voice-2.1, targeting sub-second duplex voice agents at budget-rate pricing.
Tobias Reinholt · Oct 2, 2026 · 4 min read
Suno launched Speech, a beta tool generating synthetic voiceovers wrapped in custom background tracks, signaling a calculated detour into ElevenLabs territory.
Ray Dalton · Oct 2, 2026 · 5 min read
ElevenLabs just dropped its v4 model, scaling synthetic speech to 90 languages and handing developers real dynamic control over human vocal nuances.
Cass Iverson · Sep 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Investors just handed ElevenLabs a monster $22 billion valuation. The problem? Open-source models and tech giants are already giving away identical synthetic speech for nothing.
Selma Ortiz · Sep 27, 2026 · 5 min read