AI music
Spotify's co-CEO is publicly defending the platform's growing embrace of AI-generated music, signaling a strategic pivot that raises pressing questions about synthetic audio, artist rights, and content authenticity at scale.
voice deepfakes
Voice deepfake fraud attacks have surged 1600%, overwhelming traditional defenses. We examine whether current detection technology can scale to meet the threat and what techniques are emerging to authenticate synthetic audio.
Spotify
Spotify is testing a new Studio app whose AI agent produces a fresh, personalized podcast for each listener daily, expanding the platform's bet on synthetic audio and AI-generated voice content.
voice cloning
Spotify's AI DJ now speaks French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese, leveraging OpenAI voice synthesis and Sonantic-derived cloning tech to deliver localized synthetic audio personalities to global users.
xAI
xAI launched grok-voice-think-fast-1.0, scoring 67.3% on τ-voice Bench and outperforming Google Gemini and OpenAI's GPT Realtime in low-latency speech reasoning tasks.
synthetic audio
A new arXiv paper explores neuron-level steering of emotional expression in speech-generative large audio-language models, pointing to finer control in synthetic voice systems and new questions for authenticity and misuse.
Deepfake Detection
New research reveals the human brain can identify synthetic audio at a neurological level, even when listeners cannot consciously distinguish fakes from real recordings.
ElevenLabs
Voice AI leader ElevenLabs will leverage Google Cloud services powered by Nvidia chips, expanding its synthetic audio infrastructure for next-generation voice cloning and generation.
voice synthesis
A comprehensive guide to designing fully streaming voice agents with end-to-end latency budgets, covering incremental ASR, LLM streaming, and real-time text-to-speech synthesis.
AI music
Bandcamp has announced a complete ban on AI-generated music, becoming the first major music platform to take such a definitive stance against synthetic audio content.
voice cloning
Resemble AI CEO Zohaib Ahmed discusses the evolving landscape of voice cloning technology, AI-generated audio authenticity, and the company's approach to responsible synthetic voice development.