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I cloned my voice with Mistral's Voxtral TTS in under a minute, then tested the quantized local model
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I cloned my voice with Mistral's Voxtral TTS in under a minute, then tested the quantized local model

I recorded 43 seconds of audio on a MacBook, sent it to Mistral's Voxtral API, and got back natural-sounding voice clones in minutes. Then I ran the same tests on the 6-bit quantized local version and Kokoro 82M to see how they compare.

3d ago·10 min read

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Cohere Transcribe, the most accurate open-source speech recognition model currently available
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Cohere Transcribe, the most accurate open-source speech recognition model currently available

Cohere's first speech recognition model tops the Open ASR Leaderboard as well as our own independent benchmark of four providers.

3d ago10 min
Search is becoming a conversation, and Google just went first at scale
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Search is becoming a conversation, and Google just went first at scale

Google's expansion of Search Live to more than 200 countries this week is easy to frame as a product update. A voice feature got wider availability. But zoom out and the move looks more significant: it is the first time any company has deployed conversational, multimodal search at truly global scale.

3d ago11 min
Google's new voice model powers Search Live expansion
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Google's new voice model powers Search Live expansion

Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live on March 26, positioning it as the company's most capable real-time audio model to date.

4d ago7 min
Machine learning model predicts liver cancer risk from routine blood tests and health records
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Machine learning model predicts liver cancer risk from routine blood tests and health records

Researchers have developed a machine learning model that predicts an individual's risk of hepatocellular carcinoma using routine clinical information already collected during standard medical visits.

4d ago6 min
Karpathy says LLM memory features "trying too hard"
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Karpathy says LLM memory features "trying too hard"

In a pair of posts on X on March 25, Andrej Karpathy noted that the memory feature has an issue: models can treat stale, one-off queries as deep ongoing interests.

4d ago9 min
Anthropic has introduced auto mode for Claude Code
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Anthropic has introduced auto mode for Claude Code

Anthropic has introduced auto mode for Claude Code, a new permissions setting that lets it approve or block actions on the developer's behalf.

4d ago7 min
Google's Lyria 3 Pro generates full songs up to three minutes long
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Google's Lyria 3 Pro generates full songs up to three minutes long

Google DeepMind's Lyria 3 Pro music generation model can create complete tracks up to three minutes long, a sixfold increase over the 30-second clips produced by the standard Lyria 3 model that launched in February.

5d ago21 min
OpenAI kills Sora as compute costs force a strategic retreat
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OpenAI kills Sora as compute costs force a strategic retreat

OpenAI is discontinuing Sora, its AI video generation platform, just six months after the standalone app launched.

5d ago14 min
Cursor publishes Composer 2 technical report, formally crediting Kimi K2.5 as base model
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Cursor publishes Composer 2 technical report, formally crediting Kimi K2.5 as base model

Cursor released a technical report on March 24 detailing how Composer 2 was trained, formally crediting Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 as the base model for the first time in an official document.

5d ago7 min

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