xAI has unveiled standalone Grok STT and TTS APIs, highlighting low-latency performance, multilingual support, and competitive pricing. The move could intensify competition in AI voice infrastructure and draw market attention to commercialization trends.
StepAudio 2.5 TTS has launched with natural-language emotional control, in-text modulation, and zero-shot voice cloning. Google released a similar TTS product on the same day, signaling an industry shift from preset tags to natural-language voice generation workflows.
StepAudio 2.5 TTS has launched with natural-language emotional control, in-text speech modulation, and zero-shot voice cloning. Google released a similar TTS model the same day, signaling an industry shift from tag-based controls to natural-language prompting.
QVAC, the local AI development platform under Tether, has released SDK 0.13.0, adding local integration for OpenCode and coding agents, improving its OpenAI-compatible API, and supporting one-click desktop app packaging through an Electron plugin.
