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Resemble AI just dropped Chatterbox Turbo and it's legitimately impressive. What it is: A fully open-source, MIT-licensed text-to-speech model that benchmarks ahead of ElevenLabs Turbo and Cartesia Sonic 3. Why you should care: - <150ms time-to-first-sound — fast enough for real-time applications, at least in English - Voice cloning from just 5 seconds of audio -- no lengthy training datasets needed - Paralinguistic tags — control laughs, pauses, breaths for natural human expression - MIT license — use it commercially, fork it, do whatever you want!! The model is designed to be transparent and auditable, which matters if you're building anything that needs to prove authenticity or pass compliance checks. GitHub repo: https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox If you've been looking for a serious open-source alternative to the paid voice APIs, this is worth testing. The 5-second cloning alone makes it interesting for rapid prototyping. Anyone already running this locally? Curious about real-world latency and quality compared to the benchmarks. Share your ideas and results

I’m excited to share that another member of the LiveKit team has joined the party! Please join me in welcoming @Yepher Yepher from LiveKit’s Developer Relations team!

Is there any fully free, open-source method to make outbound AI voice calls? If anyone has an idea or experience with this, please share.

Made a video walking through the AI-assisted development workflow I use for production voice AI projects. Quick context: I used this on a Vapi replacement project at a $4 billion unicorn. Within a couple of weeks, their engineering team had adopted the workflow without being asked — and they wanted me to present it division-wide. The video covers: - How I coordinate specialised AI agents for Pipecat, Vapi, and Twilio research - Building features that would normally take hours of documentation reading - Live implementation of JSON-based assistant configuration (swap providers via config file, no code changes) https://youtu.be/AG68VC_mOGY Happy to answer questions.