Google undercut the voice agent market: 1.38 dollars an hour
Google DeepMind released two new audio models. Both are native speech-to-speech and priced at 1.38 dollars an hour, well under the rival offering.
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NVIDIA's multilingual Magpie TTS: reclaiming the latency budget in voice agents
NVIDIA has expanded its open-weights multilingual text-to-speech model Magpie with Modern Standard Arabic, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. The company's argument is that running speech generation on your own infrastructure gives the latency budget back.
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