Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free

Mistral AI launches Voxtral TTS, an open-weight enterprise voice model that runs on a smartphone and challenges ElevenLabs in ...

Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition ...
The New York Times

Full Transcript of Trump’s State of the Union Address

President Trump spoke for nearly two hours to a joint session of Congress. By The New York Times President Trump delivered the first State of the Union address of his second term on Tuesday to a joint ...
VentureBeat

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more ...
SignalSCV

Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator: Transforming the Way We Create Audio Content

In today’s digital world, audio content has become a crucial element of communication, learning, and entertainment. Podcasts, video narrations, online courses, and voice assistants all rely on voice ...
National Catholic Register

Full Text: Vice President JD Vance’s Speech at the 2026 March for Life

Editor’s Note: U.S. Vice President JD Vance spoke at the 2026 March for Life on Jan. 23, 2026. Here is a full transcript of his speech, edited for clarity. Good morning, marchers. How are we doing? It ...
Good e-Reader

From Audiobooks to Manuscripts: How New Speech-to-Text Tools Support Book Creation

The way books are created is evolving rapidly, especially as audio formats and digital workflows become more closely connected. Writers are no longer limited to typing every draft from scratch or ...
Austin American-Statesman

New Texas A&M policy sparks free-speech fight after Plato readings pulled from course

Texas A&M University System serves 175,000 students annually across 12 institutions. Across all of them, core courses will no longer mention race, gender or LGBTQ content starting this semester. The ...
Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...
Edutopia

Using Text-to-Speech Technology to Support All Students

In the arena of digital accessibility tools, the embedded screen reader—also known as a text-to-speech (TTS) tool—is among the most commonly used features in secondary education. While this feature ...
Geeky Gadgets

5 Best Free Speech-to-Text APIs in 2025 Compared & Tested

What if you could transform hours of audio into precise, actionable text with just a few lines of code? In 2025, this is no longer a futuristic dream but a reality powered by innovative speech-to-text ...