Better Stack explores Voicebox, a free open-source local AI voice studio that bundles voice cloning, TTS, system-wide dictation, and MCP agent integration into one desktop app — positioned as the Ollama moment for voice AI.
Hervé Bredin (pyannote.ai) on speaker diarization: why 'who said what' matters as much as 'what was said', the gap between benchmark numbers and real-world performance, and how pyannote reconciles STT with diarization at the word level.
Trelis Research benchmarks Chorus Pro against Gemini Pro 3.1 on meetings with overlapping speakers — revealing that a dedicated, smaller transcription model can outperform general-purpose LLMs when 4+ participants talk over each other.
