OpenAI Acquires Weights.gg, Folds Voice-Cloning Team
OpenAI quietly bought voice-cloning startup Weights.gg, dispersed its six-person team across existing groups, and folded the tech into Voice Engine work.
Supertonic 3: On-Device TTS Speaks 31 Languages
Supertonic 3 is an open-weights, CPU-only TTS engine from Supertone with 31 languages, expression tags, and zero-shot voice cloning.
Break-the-Beat: AI Turns MIDI Drums Into Audio
Break-the-Beat! is a new AI model that renders drum MIDI patterns as realistic audio using a reference recording for timbre. Researchers released a demo with dozens of examples spanning Speed Metal, Funk Rock, and electronic drum kits.
Scenema Audio: Open-Source Voice Cloning From LTX 2.3
ScenemaAI released Scenema Audio on Hugging Face and GitHub, an open-weights expressive TTS and zero-shot voice cloning model built on the audio half of Lightricks LTX-2. MIT inference code, 13 languages, real-time on a 24 GB GPU.
Google Flow Music Reaches Believe and TuneCore Artists
Google partners with Believe and TuneCore to route Flow Music, its Lyria 3 Pro song studio, to indie artists. Ambassador program meets Google's product team weekly.
ElevenLabs Hits $500M ARR: What It Means for Creators
ElevenLabs crossed $500 million in ARR on May 5, 2026, announcing BlackRock, Nvidia, Jamie Foxx, and Eva Longoria as new investors. The $11B valuation makes it the most-funded independent voice AI company.
Ableton Live 12.4: Link Audio and 6 Workflow Updates
Ableton Live 12.4 shipped May 5, 2026 as a free update for Live 12. The standout feature is Link Audio, which streams audio wirelessly between two devices on your local network without extra hardware.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.