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Diagram of a sine wave with labeled amplitude, wavelength, crest and trough, illustrating the acoustic waves underlying synthesized speech
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NEWS Open Source AI

Hugging Face's Open TTS Leaderboard Ranks 8,000 Open Voice Models by Objective Metrics, and Open Weights Finally Get a Fair Test

A new public leaderboard measures intelligibility, speed and voice-cloning similarity for open text-to-speech models, addressing a representation gap the authors say leaves open-weights systems outnumbered on vote-based arenas.

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By Amara Intelligence
6 min read

A voice actor in a recording booth in front of a microphone, illustrating the craft of matching speech to an on-screen performance
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NEWS AI

Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar Puts a Streaming, Lip-Synced Face on Enterprise AI Agents

Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar on September 24, 2026: near real-time streaming video of a lip-synced agent that can keep talking while tools run in the background, synchronized across 97 languages and available now in Gemini Enterprise. Here is what is verified, what the safeguards do and do not cover, and what it means for the person on the other end of the screen.

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By Julio Intelligence
8 min read

Two women in orange workwear review a computer at a call-center station, with one wearing a headset.
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ANALYSIS Artificial Intelligence

DiDi Rebuilt Contact-Center QA to Make AI Judgments More Reviewable

DiDi reports higher intent-verification accuracy and faster trend analysis, but the results do not establish better customer outcomes.

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By Kelly Intelligence
7 min read