Voicebox: Free Open-Source Voice Studio with 7 TTS Engines
Jamie Pine's Voicebox brings seven TTS engines and voice cloning to your local machine. Free, open source, and entirely offline.
RODE Launches RODECaster Studio: AI Podcast Post-Production App
RODE announced RODECaster Studio at NAB 2026 on April 17, 2026 -- a new Mac and Windows desktop app that brings AI-powered editing to podcast post-production.
Google Gemini Mac App Adds Image, Video, and Music Generation
Google launched a native Gemini app for Mac on April 16, 2026, bringing image, video, and music generation directly to the desktop for the first time.
Darwin-TTS Adds Emotion to AI Voice With No Training Required
Researchers published Darwin-TTS on April 15, 2026, a text-to-speech model that adds emotional expression to AI voice without any training, fine-tuning, or new data.
Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Beats ElevenLabs in Quality Benchmarks
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS on April 15, 2026, a text-to-speech model that outperforms ElevenLabs v3 in quality benchmarks while offering a generous free tier.
Splice Launches AI Sample Variations with Built-In Creator Payouts
Splice launched Variations and Craft on April 15, 2026, letting producers remix any sample from its 3-million-sound library while automatically compensating the original creator.
ComfyUI Adds Frame-Synced AI Music via Sonilo
ComfyUI now supports Sonilo via Partner Nodes, letting creators generate full-length soundtracks that sync to video footage frame by frame.
llama.cpp Adds Audio Support With Qwen3-Omni
llama.cpp release b8769 adds audio multimodal support for Qwen3-Omni and Qwen3-ASR models, bringing local speech recognition and audio understanding to consumer hardware.
VoxCPM2 Open-Sources 2B-Param TTS With 30 Languages
OpenBMB released VoxCPM2, a 2 billion parameter text-to-speech model that runs on 8GB VRAM, supports 30 languages at 48kHz, and can design voices from natural language descriptions.
Suno Licensing Talks With Universal and Sony Stall Over Download Rights
Suno licensing negotiations with Universal Music Group and Sony Music have stalled over a core disagreement: whether users can download and share AI-generated songs outside the platform.
ElevenLabs Brings Voice AI On-Premise and On-Device
ElevenLabs has announced on-premise and on-device deployment options for its voice AI platform, letting organizations run text-to-speech inference entirely within their own infrastructure.
Sync-3 Ships 4K AI Lipsync With Full-Shot Processing
Sync, the Y Combinator-backed lipsync startup, launched Sync-3 on April 6. The new model processes entire shots at once, producing 4K native output with built-in obstruction detection.
Google Eloquent Brings Offline AI Dictation to iPhone
Google quietly launches Eloquent, a free Gemma-powered dictation app for iOS with offline transcription, filler word removal, and text transformation tools.
Sony Woosh: Open Source Sound Effects AI Model
Sony AI has released Woosh, an open source sound effects foundation model supporting text-to-audio and video-to-audio generation.
OmniVoice: Open Source TTS Covers 600 Languages
OmniVoice is a zero-shot text-to-speech model supporting 600+ languages with voice cloning, an Apache 2.0 license, and inference 40x faster than real-time.
Deezer Licenses AI Music Detection to Rights Body
Deezer has licensed its AI-generated music detection technology to Hungarys EJI performers rights body. The platform flags over 60,000 AI tracks daily, with 39% of all uploads now involving AI.
ElevenLabs and IBM Partner on Enterprise Voice AI
ElevenLabs and IBM announced a partnership on March 25 to integrate 10,000+ voices across 70 languages into IBM watsonx Orchestrate.
Spotify Tests Tool to Block AI Music on Profiles
Spotify launched Artist Profile Protection in beta on March 24, letting musicians approve or decline AI-generated music before it appears on their profile.
AI Music and Audio Tools in 2026: What Actually Works
An open-source music model running on a $200 GPU now outscores Suno v5 on the SongEval benchmark. Here is what actually works in AI audio in 2026.
Flowtonik AI DAW Bets on Producers Over Prompts
Stems Labs launched Flowtonik, a macOS DAW with conversational AI assistants for stem generation, mixing, and arrangement. Backed by ElevenLabs, it signals a new direction for AI music tools.
Flowtonik Ships AI-Powered DAW for Music Producers
Stems Labs has launched Flowtonik, a macOS digital audio workstation with built-in AI assistants for stem generation, mixing, arrangement, and natural language editing.
ElevenLabs Music Marketplace Lets Creators Sell AI Tracks
ElevenLabs launched a Music Marketplace inside ElevenCreative where creators earn money each time their AI-generated tracks are licensed, with three pre-cleared commercial tiers.
BandM8 Turns One Instrument Into a Full Band with AI
BandM8 debuts at NVIDIA GTC with a music-to-music AI platform that generates real-time MIDI accompaniment from a single instrument.
ElevenLabs Adds Remix, Lyric Sync, and Stems to Eleven Music
ElevenLabs shipped major updates to Eleven Music including public song discovery and remixing, precise lyric timestamps, an inpainting API, and stem separation.