Ars Technica

ChatGPT update enables its AI to “see, hear, and speak,” according to OpenAI

On Monday, OpenAI announced a significant update to ChatGPT that enables its GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 AI models to analyze images and react to them as part of a text conversation. Also, the ChatGPT mobile ...
Techzim

Google Docs Gets a Voice: Text-to-Speech & AI Image Generation Roll Out

Google Docs now includes an ‘Audio’ text-to-speech feature, allowing you to create audio versions of your documents directly from the Tools menu. The audio player offers controls for play/pause, ...
VentureBeat

China's Alibaba challenges U.S. tech giants with open source Qwen3-Omni AI model accepting text, audio, image and video

U.S. tech giants are facing a reckoning from the East. Even as Nvidia pledged today to invest a staggering $100 billion into its own customer OpenAI's data centers — a move that raised eyebrows across ...
GeekWire

Amazon launches new artificial intelligence services for developers: Image recognition, text-to-speech, Alexa NLP

AWS chief Andy Jassy speaks about AI on Wednesday at re:Invent. Photo via AWS livestream. Amazon today announced three new artificial intelligence-related toolkits for developers building apps on ...
Inc

See if you hear a difference between Tacotron 2 and human speech.

Can you tell the difference between AI-generated computer speech and a real, live human being? Maybe you’ve always thought you could. Maybe you’re fond of Alexa and Siri but believe you would never ...