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Murf AI’s Falcon 2 Takes Aim at OpenAI and ElevenLabs With Faster, Cheaper Voice AI

Murf AI's Falcon 2 is not only about making voice AI sound more natural or respond faster. According to Ankur Edkie, Co-Founder and CEO of Murf AI, one of the harder engineering problems is making those gains work economically when voice agents begin handling millions of calls simultaneously.

Murf AI launched Falcon 2, its new AI model for generating natural-sounding speech for voice applications. In an independent Artificial Analysis Speech Arena comparison, Murf said Falcon 2 ranked ahead of OpenAI Realtime and ElevenLabs' Flash and Turbo models for how natural the generated speech sounds. The model can start generating audio in less than 100 milliseconds, which helps voice agents respond quickly during conversations. It is also priced at $0.01 per minute of generated speech, compared with $0.05 per minute for ElevenLabs' Flash and Turbo models, according to Murf.

But Edkie said the improvement is not simply the result of making...

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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times’ case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies’ own documentation warned that it was starting a “doom loop” that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the “largest theft of labor in

Sony Music And UMG Say Suno's New Models Still Violates Their Copyright

In a new lawsuit, the labels argue Suno found a roundabout way to train its v6 models on unlicensed music. Mino Surkala/Shutterstock Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group (UMG) are suing AI music generator Suno for allegedly infringing on their copyright with its newest v6 models, Variety reports.

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Anthropic is partnering with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic, including red teaming models and conducting alignment assessments

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Clicks Communicator Shipments Begin In December

The BlackBerry-like phone also got a spec bump and an impending price hike. Clicks Gadget maker Clicks will soon learn how much pent-up demand there is for a modern-day BlackBerry. The company's first smartphone, the Clicks Communicator, will begin shipping in December, nearly a year after its CES

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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Sony Music And UMG Say Suno's New Models Still Violates Their Copyright

Anthropic is partnering with Accenture to embed evaluators within Anthropic, including red teaming models and conducting alignment assessments

Clicks Communicator Shipments Begin In December