AssemblyAI-TTS-1 is a streaming text-to-speech API for voice agents, priced at $15 per 1M characters with unlimited concurrency.

Google updated Play services v26.42 and launched Android XR developer emulators at Android Dev Summit 2026 to prepare Android smartphones for incoming smart glasses and audio-first AI experiences.

AssemblyAI outlined Python TTS workflows for one-shot WAV output, WebSocket streaming, barge-in handling and keep-alive sessions.

The Library of Congress has acquired a bound volume containing 15 tipped-in pages of a stenographic version of Theodore Roosevelt's Milwaukee, Wisconsin, speech of Oct. 14, 1912. The pages record the ...

Ollama, the popular app for running AI models locally, announced that its Mac app now supports text-to-speech generation, with Windows and Linux support coming soon.

Ollama now lets Mac users turn text into natural-sounding speech locally with Phonon, a family of small text-to-speech models from Gradium. No subscription required.

A national free speech group is concerned that a new directive from Florida's education chief could worsen Florida's "troubling book censorship" problem. Education Commissioner Henry Mack said in a ...

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Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. PEN America on Tuesday released a study focused on the expanding threats to public libraries that found book bans and programming ...

Dolly Parton said she wanted to be remembered "not for looks but for books." The beloved country singer died Aug. 25 at 80 after privately battling cancer. While the "Jolene" singer is best known for ...

Hypatia, the fourth century philosopher and mathematician was a curious choice to have a stained glass with her likeness commissioned by Burlington Public Library benefactor Phillip Crapo in the late ...

Comparing Jews to Nazis in bad poetry is definitely offensive — to me as a poet who is Jewish, it hurts to hear such language on both accounts. As a defender of free speech, I can take it despite the ...