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Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with generative voice design and line-by-line direction. Both arrive in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, with consumer and enterprise access to follow.
Alibaba Cloud added Qwen-Audio 3.1 Realtime to Model Studio with tool calling, semantic turn detection, and full-duplex control. Alibaba reports background-speech responses falling to 13%, though some benchmarks slipped.
Hugging Face research shows top ASR models reproduce benchmark transcripts even when audio contradicts them. The study found models with the lowest reported error rates were most likely to regurgitate incorrect reference texts, overstating real-world performance.
NVIDIA has released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an 11-billion-parameter end-to-end speech-to-speech model that performs streaming speech understanding. VoiceChat 11B gives researchers and infrastructure teams a reference implementation.
ByteDance has officially launched SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex large language model that unifies audio, video, and text within. The launch represents a significant shift in how multimodal AI systems handle real-world.
Koray Kavukcuoglu founded DeepMind’s deep-learning team and helped pioneer DQN and WaveNet. This career profile covers his ladder to SVP and Chief AI Architect — separate from the August 2026 org news.