Mistral Releases Open-Weight Voice AI Built For Speed

Mistral releases Voxtral TTS model that’s fast, multilingual and small enough to be practical for voice agents.
Analytics Insight

Mistral’s Open-Source Voice Model Sparks New AI Assistant Rivalry

Mistral AI has made a move that has surprised the AI world. The French startup has released a new open-source voice model.
Morningstar

FlashLabs Releases Chroma 1.0: The World's First Open-Source, End-to-End Real-Time Voice AI Model

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- FlashLabs, an applied AI research and engineering lab building real-time agentic systems, today announced the release of Chroma 1.0, the world's first open ...
Slator

Speech & Voice

Innovations in AI speech and AI voice, including live translation, voice cloning, speech-to-speech models, and speech-to-text ...
The New York Times

For Podcasters, a Voice Clone Is a Double-Edged Sword

Are A.I. replicas a boon for productivity or a betrayal of the bond with listeners? Are A.I. replicas a boon for productivity or a betrayal of the bond with listeners? Credit...Illustration by Petra ...