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Insights on AI communication, voice agents, WhatsApp automation, and the future of customer engagement.
TTS Showdown 2026: ElevenLabs vs. Cartesia vs. OpenAI vs. Sesame
Text-to-speech got good somewhere in late 2024. By 2026, "good enough to fool a casual listener" is table stakes for every major vendor. The interesting differences now are at the edges: latency under 100ms, instructable emotion, self-hostability, and the long tail of accents and languages. Here is …
Sarvam Bulbul: TTS for Indian Voices and Code-Mixing
The hardest test of an Indian-language TTS model is not pronunciation — it's a sentence like "Aap apne SBI account ki KYC pending hai, please complete it before 25 तारीख." A name, an acronym, code-switched English, a Hindi date marker, and the whole thing has to sound like a real person reading a re…
Emotion-Aware TTS: From Tone to Empathy
For most of TTS history, the goal was clarity. The model said the words and you understood them. By 2024 that bar was met across major languages. By 2026 the frontier has moved: TTS that does not just say the words but conveys how the words should feel. Emotion-aware TTS is the next layer of voice n…