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Qwen3-TTS 1.7B and Qwen3-ASR 1.7B went to public beta September 14 with Coval placements: the ASR Fast endpoint ranks first on latency at 44ms p50 time-to-final-segment with a 3.6% WER for $0.12/hour, standard endpoint at $0.06 (Nari Labs). TTS Fast takes second on latency at 63ms p50 time-to-first-audio while ranking first on WER at 3.8%, $10 per million characters, standard at $5. Their comparison table puts AssemblyAI Universal 3.5 Pro at 3.75x the STT cost, Deepgram Nova 3 at 2.4x, ElevenLabs Eleven v3 at 5x and Cartesia Sonic 3.6 at 6.5x.
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The repo reached 9,740 stars with roughly double the next-fastest Python project's daily gain. It exposes a VAD → STT → LLM → TTS pipeline behind an OpenAI Realtime-compatible WebSocket API with every stage swappable: Parakeet TDT as default STT (Whisper, Paraformer alternativ...
MAI-Transcribe-2 went to public preview September 3 through Azure Speech, first on FLEURS across 60 languages at 5.2% average WER and second on the independent Artificial Analysis leaderboard. Promotional price runs through December 31, 2026; the non-promotional rate is undisc...
Muse Voice Transcribe, released September 1, is a single real-time model doing streaming ASR, speaker diarization and endpointing at $3.00 per 1,000 audio minutes, roughly 80% below Google Cloud Speech-to-Text's standard $0.96/hour. It handles 20+ speakers natively with no pos...
Hugging Face's August 26 post introduces ColBERT-style late-interaction training with MultiVectorEncoder, MultiVectorEncoderTrainer, CachedMultiVectorMultipleNegativesRankingLoss and a MultiVectorInformationRetrievalEvaluator (Hugging Face). Their finetuned mLateOn-medical rea...
Per-token prices went down at both labs. Subscriptions are draining faster at both labs. Those aren't in tension once you look at token counts. On the OpenAI side, r/OpenAI collected reports from Linux.do and NodeSeek alleging Astra consumes more Plus quota than its published...
Ollama cut v0.34.0-rc1 on September 5 at 23:49 UTC, and the headline item changes the shape of the local-versus-hosted decision rather than the performance of either side: Ollama-hosted open models can be selected directly inside ChatGPT Desktop, with setup driven from the Oll...
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