Topic

Voice

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1. 01Voice16 Oct 2026

   ElevenLabs Instant Soundtracks scores your video and adds SFX

   Upload a video and ElevenLabs writes original music, then places sound effects at the right timestamps; it can follow existing audio as a reference. Live in ElevenCreative, ElevenMusic and the API.

   Source: ElevenLabs (opens in a new tab)
2. 02Voice13 Oct 2026

   Embedding Gemma Transcribe: 1 hour of audio in ~13 s (reported)

   An independent project turned Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 into speech-to-text. They report 288x real time on a base M3 MacBook Air, fully on device, with ~5% word error rate vs 2-3% for leading models.

   Source: eg2.haku.sh (opens in a new tab)
3. 03Voice13 Oct 2026

   Fish Audio launches Drama 3 voice direction

   Drama 3 is a text-to-speech model you direct in plain language: tone, pacing, multi-speaker scenes in one pass. Preview API model drama-3-preview; 80% off API for the first 30 days. Still in preview.

   Source: Fish Audio (opens in a new tab)