Voice Technology

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AI Music Maker Suno Now Generates Spoken Words

Suno has launched Speech in public beta, a model that generates spoken-word audio and original background music together in one track. We explain how Simple and Advanced modes work, what Suno has and has not said about credits, voices and rights, why the AI music company is diversifying, and what it means for businesses using synthetic voice.

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Onepin AI Voice Production Agent Supports 10 Languages for Large-Scale Projects

Onepin, from speech-evaluation company Podonos, is an AI voice production agent that routes each line of a script to a text-to-speech engine, scores it for naturalness, clarity and pronunciation, and fixes what fails, in 10 languages. We explain the pipeline, the pricing per validated hour, where Onepin’s own claims disagree, who it suits and what UK teams should check.

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Microsoft Adds MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Voice Models to MAI Playground

Microsoft has added three audio models to MAI Playground: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription and the MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash text-to-speech models, plus a voice assistant demo called Chatter. We cover what each model does and costs, how the streaming model ranks on Artificial Analysis, how fast Microsoft’s voice line has moved and what UK developers should check.

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MAI-Transcribe-2 Has Just Landed on AIxploria — Badged #25 in Transcriber, a Slot Whisper Large V3 Turbo Already Holds

AIxploria listed MAI-Transcribe-2 at 04:12 UTC on 14 September 2026 with a 4.4 rating from five votes, a Free tag and a badge reading “#25 in Transcriber”. We tested the badge against the directory’s own category pages, checked 30 items on the card against Microsoft’s launch post, model page, Azure documentation and the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, and measured where the card appears. Sixteen items match, but the #25 slot belongs to Whisper Large V3 Turbo, the Free tag contradicts the card’s own FAQ, and the review gets the diarization defaults and file limit wrong while leaving out a 15-minute ceiling.

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